Research Catalog

Title

Remote sensing and GIS in ecosystem management / edited by V. Alaric Sample.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Sample, V. Alaric.
• American Forests (Association). Forest Policy Center.

Description

xiii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subjects

• Ecosystem management > United States > Case studies
• Information storage and retrieval systems > Ecosystem management
• Forest ecology
• Geographic information systems
• Ecosystem management > Remote sensing

Note

• Based on papers from a conference.
• "American Forests, Forest Policy Center."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / V. Alaric Sample -- 1. Developing Landscape-Scale Information to Meet Ecological, Economic, and Social Needs / William P. Gregg, Jr. -- 2. Developing Information Essential to Policy, Planning, and Management Decision-Making: The Promise of GIS / Jerry F. Franklin -- 3. Challenges in Developing and Applying Remote Sensing to Ecosystem Management / Roger M. Hoffer -- 4. Ecological Perspective: The Nature of Mature and Old-Growth Forest Ecosystems / Thomas A. Spies -- 5. Resource Management Perspective: Geographic Information Systems and Decision Models in Forest Management Planning / John Sessions, Sarah Crim and K. Norman Johnson -- 6. GIS Applications Perspective: Development and Analysis of a Chronosequence of Late-Successional Forest Ecosystem Data Layers / Peter H. Morrison -- 7. GIS Applications Perspective: Current Research on Remote Sensing of Forest Structure / Warren B. Cohen.
• 8. Ecological Perspective: Linking Ecology, GIS, and Remote Sensing to Ecosystem Management / Craig D. Allen -- 9. Resource Management Perspective: Practical Considerations for Using GIS and Remote Sensing at the Field Level / Douglas P. Schleusner -- 10. GIS Applications Perspective: Using Remote Sensing and GIS for Modeling Old-Growth Forests / Jessica Gonzales -- 11. Ecological Perspective: Understanding the Impacts of Forest Fragmentation / Scott M. Pearson -- 12. Resource Management Perspective: Managing to Minimize Fragmentation of Native Hardwood Forests / David Cawrse -- 13. GIS Applications Perspective: Multidisciplinary Modeling and GIS for Landscape Management / Richard O. Flamm and Monica G. Turner -- 14. Ecological Perspective: Current and Potential Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS to Ecosystem Analysis / David J. Mladenoff and George E. Host -- 15. Resource Management Perspective: Remote Sensing and GIS Support for Defining, Mapping, and Managing Forest Ecosystems.

ISBN

• 1559632844 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 1559632852 (paper)

LCCN

94017547

OCLC

ocm30518298

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries