About this book
The increase in public interest on the natural environment can most certainly be attributed to growing public awareness on the impacts of global warming and climate change.
"Representing, Modeling, and Visualizing the Natural Environment" contains contributions from recognized experts and addresses crucial research questions pertaining to how the natural environment should be visually represented. The book considers the interplay between data representation, modeling, and visualization in environmental studies and reviews state-of-the-art GIS applications for the natural environment. The authors also identify emerging future research directions.
Contents
Introduction to Representing, Modeling, and Visualizing the Natural Environment, G. Harvey, N. Mount, P. Aplin, and G. Priestnall
Representing the Natural Environment
- Keynote Paper: Representation of the Natural Environment, M. Duckham
- Keynote Paper: Representing Surfaces in the Natural Environment: Implications for Research and Geographical Education, N. Waters
- Developing Ontologies from a Domain Expert Perspective, F. Hemsley-Flint, G. Hart, J. Lee, and S. Thompson
- The Spatial Disaggregation of Great Britain and European Agricultural Land Use, C.J. McClean
- Comparing Different Land Cover Data Sets for Agricultural Monitoring in Africa, S. Fritz, L. See, F. Rembold, M. Massart, T. N#gre, and C. von Hagen
- Using GIS to Identify Wildland Areas in the North Pennines, S. Blair, L. See, S. Carver, and P. Samson
- Representations of Environmental Data in Web-Based GIS, P. Mooney and A.C. Winstanley
- Developing and Applying a Participative Web-Based GIS for Integration of Public Perceptions into Strategic Environmental Assessment, A. Gonzalez, A. Gilmer, R. Foley, J. Sweeney, and J. Fry
Modeling the Natural Environment
- Keynote Paper: Challenges for Environmental Modeling, R. Aspinall
- Keynote Paper: Spatial Scale and Neighborhood Size in Spatial Data Processing for Modeling the Natural Environment, A-X. Zhu
- Invited Paper: Toward an Algebra for Terrain-Based Flow Analysis, D.G. Tarboton and M.E. Baker
- Spatial Terrain Modeling, S. Dalyot and Y. Doytsher
- Regions and Patterns of Forest Change in Brazil, A. de las Heras and I.R. Lake
- GM(1,1)-Kriging Prediction of Soil Dioxin Patterns, D. Guo, R. Guo, C. Thiart, and T. Oyana
Visualizing the Natural Environment
- Keynote Paper: Information Access, Depicting Geography, and Geographical Visualization Tools, W.E. Cartwright
- Keynote Paper: Wiki Cartography and the Visualization of the Natural, D.Z. Sui
- Invited Paper: GIS-Based Landscape Visualization: The State of the Art, A. Lovett, K. Appleton, and A. Jones
- Visualizing Species Distributions, D.J. Lieske and D.J. Bender
- Visualizing Risk for Hill Walkers, A. Jardine and W. Mackaness
- Using Web-Based 3-D Visualization for Planning Hikes Virtually, S. Bleisch and J. Dykes
- PastureSim: A Visualization Tool for Pasture Management, C.E S. Rider and F.E. Reitsma
Index
Customer Reviews
Biography
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