AUTOR/ES: Bettinger
ISBN: 9780072562422
AÑO: 03
EDICION: 1
IDIOMA: Inglés
PÁGINAS: 240
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PUNTOS CLAVE: The only text to provide examples of GIS analysis typically performed by foresters and other natural resources professionals. This book covers many of the types of spatial analyses that field foresters and natural resouce professional perform to assist in decision-making activities.The goal of this book is to introduce field foresters, biologists, and other natural resource professionals to the most common GIS applications associated with managing natural resources. Therefore, the book focuses mainly on GIS applications rather than on GIS theory. We would be remiss, however, if we did not provide some background on the history, technology, and theory that defines GIS. Consequently, the first part of the book provides a brief background on many of those areas as well as map development; it is not all-inclusive, however, as we wish to move quickly to applications of GIS in natural resource management. For a broader treatment of GIS concepts, other resources are recommended, including more general GIS books or User Guides specific to GIS software packages. To illustrate the applications of GIS to natural resource management, we have provided two sets of GIS databases. The first set references the hypothetical Daniel Pickett forest, one that may be familiar to folks who have taken courses in forest management, as it is one of the landscapes used to illustrate management alternatives in the book Forest Management (Davis et al. 2002). The second set references a fictional forest called the Brown Tract. Here, we have a more realistic landscape that includes a digital orthophotograph so that users can actually see the resources being managed. This data were derived from an existing set of GIS databases, yet modified significantly by the authors to make them suitable for use in this text. Each of these sets of GIS data can be accessed through an Internet site located at the University of Georgia (http
CONTENIDOS: This first edition of GIS Applications in Forestry and Natural Resource Management is intended for introductory courses in Geographic Information Systems or computer applications in forestry and natural resource management. The emphasis of the book is on the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in natural resource management, or GIS applications. We provide detailed coverage of GIS operations such as querying, buffering, clipping, and overlay analysis (and others), as well as background information on the history of GIS, database creation, editing, and acquisition, and map development. The applications provided can be extended to any region of the World, although the primary emphasis is North America, as portrayed by alternative management scenarios.
INDICE: Part 11 Geographic Information SystemsObjectivesWhat is a Geographic Information System?A Brief History of GISWhy Use GIS in Forestry and Natural Resource Management OrganizationsGIS TechnologyData Collection Processes and Input DevicesOutput DevicesGIS Software ProgramsSummaryApplicationsReferences2 GIS Databases: Map Projections, Structures, and ScaleObjectivesThe Shape and Size of the EarthEllipsoids, Geoids, and DatumsThe Geographical Coordinate SystemMap ProjectionsPlanar Coordinate SystemsGIS Database StructuresMetadataAccess to Spatial DataScale, or Resolution, of Spatial DatabasesApplicationsReferences3 Acquiring, Creating, and Editing GIS Databases and Dealing with ErrorsObjectivesAcquiring GIS DatabasesCreating GIS DatabasesEditing GIS DatabasesDealing with Errors in GIS DatabasesSummaryApplicationsReferences4 Map DesignObjectivesMap ComponentsMap TypesThe Design LoopCommon Map ProblemsUSGS 7.5 Minute Series Quadrangle MapsSummaryApplicationsReferencesPart 25 Selecting Landscape Features Based on Their AttributesObjectivesSelecting Features from a GIS DatabaseSelecting Features Within Some Proximity of Other FeaturesSummaryApplicationsReferences6 Obtaining Information About a Specific Geographic RegionObjectivesHow a Clip Process WorksHow an Erase Process WorksSummaryApplications7 Buffering Landscape FeaturesObjectivesHow a Buffer Process WorksBuffering Streams and Creating Riparian AreasBuffering Owl Nest LocationsOther Applications of Buffer ProcessesSummaryApplicationsReferences8 Combining and Splitting Landscape Features and Merging GIS DatabasesObjectivesCombining Landscape FeaturesSplitting Landscape FeaturesMerging GIS DatabasesSummaryApplications9 Joining and Linking Spatial and Nonspatial DatabasesObjectivesJoining Nonspatial Databases with GIS DatabasesJoining Two Spatial GIS DatabasesMaking Joined Data a Permanent Part of the Destination TableLinking TablesSummaryApplications10 Updating GIS DatabasesObjectivesThe Need for Keeping GIS Databases UpdatedUpdating an Existing GIS Database by Adding Landscape FeaturesUpdating an Existing GIS Database by Modifying Existing Landscape Features and AttributesSummaryApplications11 Overlay ProcessesObjectivesIntersect ProcessesIdentity ProcessesUnion ProcessesIncorporating Point and Line GIS Databases into an Overlay AnalysisSummaryApplications12 Synthesis of Techniques Applied to Advanced TopicsObjectivesLand ClassificationsRecreation Opportunity SpectrumBuffer Strips for the Protection of Public and Private PropertyHabitat Suitability Model with a Road Edge EffectSummaryApplicationsReferences13 Raster GIS Database AnalysesObjectivesDigital Elevation Models (DEMs)Elevation Contour IntervalsShaded Relief MapsSlope Class MapsInteraction with Vector GIS DatabasesViewshield AnalysisSummaryApplicationsReferencesPart 314 Trends in GIS TechnologyObjectivesIntegrated Raste