Abstract
GIS for Environmental Applications provides a practical introduction to the principles, methods, techniques and tools in GIS for spatial data management, analysis, modelling and visualisation, and their applications in environmental problem solving and decision making. It covers the fundamental concepts, principles and techniques in spatial data, spatial data management, spatial analysis and modelling, spatial visualisation, spatial interpolation, spatial statistics, and remote sensing data analysis, as well as demonstrates the typical environmental applications of GIS, including terrain analysis, hydrological modelling, land use analysis and modelling, ecological modelling, and ecosystem service valuation. Case studies are used in the text to contextualise these subjects in the real world, examples and detailed tutorials are provided in each chapter to show how the GIS techniques and tools introduced in the chapter can be implemented using ESRI ArcGIS (a popular GIS software system for environmental applications) and other third party extensions to ArcGIS to address.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | London and New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Number of pages | 471 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780203383124 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780415829069, 9780415829076 |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2016 |
Keywords
- GIS (geographic information system)
- Environmental Science
- Remote sensing
