GIS for Ecology

Provides a straightforward guide to GIS aimed at students and researchers in ecology and environmental sciences. Based on the authors' own experiences, it introduces fundamental principles of GIS with particular emphasis on data acquisition, handling and analysis.

List of contents

1. Geographic Information Systems, Ecology and the Environment
2. Thinking Spatially - Space, Place and Time
3. Getting your Project Started
4. Sources of Data
5. Getting to Grips eith GIS
6. Visualisation and Communication
7. Applications in Ecology
Glossary of Terms
Appendix
References
Index

Summary

Provides a straightforward guide to GIS aimed at students and researchers in ecology and environmental sciences. Based on the authors' own experiences, it introduces fundamental principles of GIS with particular emphasis on data acquisition, handling and analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Jo Treweek, Richard Wadsworth
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9780582246522
• ISBN: 978-0-582-24652-2
• No. of pages: 204
• Weight: 560 g
• Series: Longman; Longman
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography