[PDF] Exploring Environmental Science With Gis eBook

Author : Meg E. Stewart
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Science Engineering
Page : pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780072977448

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This workbook provides an introduction to the basics of GIS as a tool to view data, analyze and compare relationships, and to visualize change in our natural and social environments. It allows students to learn by doing, as well as provide instructors with homework, discussion, or lab sessions to assign. . . Exploring Environmental Solutions with GIS complements any physical geology, earth science, environmental geology, environmental science, or natural disasters course.. . Note: At this time, this product is not MAC compatible..

Author : Meg E. Stewart
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN :

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This workbook will provide an introduction to the basics of GIS as a tool to view data, analyze and compare relationships, and to visualize change in our natural and social environments. It will allow students to learn by doing, as well as provide instructors with homework, discussion, or lab sessions to assign. Exploring Environmental Solutions with GIS complements any physical geology, earth science, environmental geology, environmental science, ecology or natural disasters course. This workbook is intedned to serve students in a wide range of courses and disciplines. Exercises engage issues at the intersection of many disciplines, such as water quality, population growth, environmental hazards, and land use. Exercises may be done in any order, with the exception of the first one, which introduces basic functions in ArcExplorer. The length of exercises is designed so that most students can complete their work in an hour or less.

Author : Hamid Reza Pourghasemi
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0128156953

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Spatial Modeling in GIS and R for Earth and Environmental Sciences offers an integrated approach to spatial modelling using both GIS and R. Given the importance of Geographical Information Systems and geostatistics across a variety of applications in Earth and Environmental Science, a clear link between GIS and open source software is essential for the study of spatial objects or phenomena that occur in the real world and facilitate problem-solving. Organized into clear sections on applications and using case studies, the book helps researchers to more quickly understand GIS data and formulate more complex conclusions. The book is the first reference to provide methods and applications for combining the use of R and GIS in modeling spatial processes. It is an essential tool for students and researchers in earth and environmental science, especially those looking to better utilize GIS and spatial modeling. Offers a clear, interdisciplinary guide to serve researchers in a variety of fields, including hazards, land surveying, remote sensing, cartography, geophysics, geology, natural resources, environment and geography Provides an overview, methods and case studies for each application Expresses concepts and methods at an appropriate level for both students and new users to learn by example

Author : William Bajjali
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031422263

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This textbook serves as a practical guide for undergraduate and graduate students in geology, hydrology, ecology, and environmental sciences, teaching them applied GIS techniques. Presented as a step-by-step tutorial across seventeen chapters, the book starts with the fundamentals of GIS and progresses to real-life examples from geology and water resources. The focus is on ESRI's ArcGIS Pro, covering various tools for spatial, geostatistical, network, and 3-D analysis. Additionally, it explores ArcGIS Online and working with web apps like Web Map, StoryMaps, and GEO App. GIS applications, especially in water and environmental problem-solving, are rapidly growing worldwide. The demand for GIS experts utilizing spatial analysis in environmental science remains high. This textbook equips users with the necessary knowledge to become effective mappers and spatial analysts in the fields of environment, geosciences, and water resources, employing the latest state-of-the-art methodology. Each chapter provides exercises and supplementary materials available for download on SpringerLink, along with additional links for further learning opportunities.

Author : Allan Brimicombe
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780415259231

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The significance of modeling in managing the environment is well recognized from scientific and engineering perspectives as well as in the political arena. Environmental concerns and issues of sustainability have permeated both public and private sectors, particularly the need to predict, assess and mitigate against adverse impacts that arise from continuing development and use of resources. Students need to be made aware of these issues. Practitioners should enrich their knowledge and skills in these areas. This book focuses on the modeling, rather than on data collection or visualization.

Author : Michael F. Goodchild
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 1996-09-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470236772

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GIS and Environmental Modeling: Progress and Research Issues Michael F. Goodchild, Louis T. Steyaert, Bradley O. Parks, Carol Johnston, David Maidment, Michael Crane, and Sandi Glendinning, Editors With growing pressure on natural resources and landscapes there is an increasing need to predict the consequences of any changes to the environment. Modelling plays an important role in this by helping our understanding of the environment and by forecasting likely impacts. In recent years moves have been made to link models to Geographical Information Systems to provide a means of analysing changes over an area as well as over time. GIS and Environmental Modeling explores the progress made to date in integrating these two software systems. Approaches to the subject are made from theoretical, technical as well as data stand points. The existing capabilities of current systems are described along with important issues of data availability, accuracy and error. Various case studies illustrate this and highlight the common concepts and issues that exist between researchers in different environmental fields. The future needs and prospects for integrating GIS and environmental models are also explored with developments in both data handling and modelling discussed. The book brings together the knowledge and experience of over 100 researchers from academic, commercial and government backgrounds who work in a wide range of disciplines. The themes followed in the text provide a fund of knowledge and guidance for those involved in environmental modelling and GIS. The book is easily accessible for readers with a basic GIS knowledge and the ideas and results of the research are clearly illustrated with both colour and black and white graphics.

Author : George Grekousis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1108498981

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An introductory overview of spatial analysis and statistics through GIS, including worked examples and critical analysis of results.

Author : Nancy Hoalst-Pullen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 904819525X

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Geotechnologies and the Environment: Environmental Applications and Mana- ment presents an engaging and diverse array of physically-oriented GIScience applications that have been organized using four broad themes. While the book’s themes are by no means mutually exclusive, Hoalst-Pullen and Patterson provide an elegant overview of the eld that frames the collection’s subsequent thematic str- ture – Wilderness and Wildlife Response; Glaciers; Wetlands and Watersheds; and Human Health and the Environment. Over the course of the volume, the contrib- ing authors move beyond basic (and in some respects clichéd) landscape ecology of land use change to explore human-environment dynamics heretofore not emp- sized in the applied literature. In doing so, the collection presents a compelling case for the importance of developing new physically-oriented GIScience applications that reside at the nexus of social and natural systems with the explicit intent of informing public policy and/or the decision making practices of resource managers. Individually, the chapters themselves are intentionally diverse. The diversity of the approaches, their spatial context, and emphases on management applications demonstrate the many ways in which geotechnologies can be used to address small and big problems in both developed and developing regions. The collection’s int- nal coherence is derived – like the book series – from its explicit appeal to a wide variety of human-environment interactions with potential policy linkages.

Author : Peter Halls
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0203302796

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There is considerable current academic interest in the interface between geographical information systems (GIS) and the environment. This new monograph explores the process from start to finish. It begins with information acquisition in the environment and moves on to tool and techniques for manipulating the information, visualisation and navigation methods for exploring it, and computation and modelling techniques for its analysis. It then concludes with a survey of decision support, for its application. Spatial Information and the Environment is the eighth book in the Innovations in GIS series initiated in 1994. The series is in essence derived from a selection of the presentations made at the annual GIS Research UK conference 2000 held in York, and has now changed its focus by concentrating on a single topic, making each text distinctive.