Remote Sensing Imagery for Natural Resource Monitoring: A Guide for First-Time Users / Edition 1

by David Wilkie, John Finn

Overview

Includes almost one hundred maps, satellite and aerial photographs, and computer graphics to illustrate the products of remote sensing. An indispensable guidebook for ecologists, conservation biologists, and resource managers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231079297
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/28/1996
Series:	Issues, Cases, and Methods in Biodiversity Conservation
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	295
Product dimensions:	5.97(w) x 8.99(h) x 0.71(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David S. Wilke is on the faculty UNEP Program at Tufts University's Center for Environmental Management.

John T. Finn is professor of systems ecology in the wildlife and fisheries program of the department of forestry and wildlife management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Editorial Reviews

The authors identify themselves as applied biologists who made a number of mistakes when they themselves started using remotely sensed imagery and found, in talking with other biologists/environmentalists who were also exploring digital imagery, that their errors were common to a number of individuals. This book is an attempt to prevent others from making the same errors, and to define both the limits and capabilities of remote sensing . . . [E]xtremely well done.

Ecoscience

This practical introduction to the benefits, limitations, and pitfalls involved in the use of remote sensing data includes ample case studies, some 100 maps, satellite and aerial photographs, and computer graphics to illustrate the products of remote sensing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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