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Representing, Modeling and Visualizing the Natural Environment

Edited By: Nick Mount, Gemma Harvey, Paul Aplin and Gary Priestnall
405 pages, 100 b/w illustrations, tables
Publisher: CRC Press
Representing, Modeling and Visualizing the Natural Environment
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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

University of Nottingham, UK The University of Nottingham, UK University of Edinburgh, Scotland University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland University of Glasgow, Scotland
Edited By: Nick Mount, Gemma Harvey, Paul Aplin and Gary Priestnall
405 pages, 100 b/w illustrations, tables
Publisher: CRC Press
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'Representing, Modeling, and Visualizing the Natural Environment' is a twenty-two-chapter collection of papers based on the 2006 and 2007 meetings of the Geographical Information Science Research UK (GISRUK) Conference Series, held at the University of Nottingham (2006) and at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (2007). This volume provides an interesting cross-section of geographic information science research being undertaken by researchers in the U.K., Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

The papers are divided into three groups, each focusing on the application of GIS and GIScience to the natural environment. These thematic groups are: representation, modeling, and visualization. The opening chapter provides a clear introduction to the context and scope of the volume, defining the range of `natural environments' considered in various explorations of the three main research themes, and providing a useful overview of how GIS/GIScience has been applied to geographic challenges to date. The authors use this as a foundation to establish the key objective of the volume: to explore how GIS/GIScience as we know it is being applied in increasingly public arenas, using a range of new techniques and technologies to visualize and interact with representations and models of natural environments.

The volume provides a thoughtful selection of methods and contexts to explore these three main themes. Eight chapters explore the topic of representation. Six chapters consider modeling of the natural environment. Seven chapters discuss visualization research in this field. The overall quality of papers is high, and a credit to the conference series and the editorial team. A keynote paper opens each of the three theme groups in this collection. These keynote chapters usefully situate the research reported in each thematic category. ... Given the wide range of research endeavors represented by the papers included in this volume, the editors have done an excellent job of presenting them within the context of these three thematic groups.

The editors have assembled a collection of papers that will be of use to the GIScience and Geomatics community in academia, government, and industry. This is due in large part to the way it bridges existing GIS/GIScience with emerging methods and technologies, grounded in contemporary application contexts. There are also papers that take that important extra step and explore conceptual questions about representation, modeling, and visualization. The papers are well-written, and enable the reader to get a sense of the `pulse' of ongoing and emerging challenges in these thematic areas, as reported by this international group of researchers from the GISRUK community. These papers would be quite accessible to graduate students and strong undergraduates. It will be of value to see the next volume in this series, exploring the directions these topics have taken since, and the ways in which this community of researchers have pursued them.

- Nick Hedley, GEOMATICA, Vol. 63, No. 4
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