Wetland Landscape Characterization: GIS, Remote Sensing and Image Analysis
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (996 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1575041219 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A vital component of the book is the variety of quality assurance/quality control and accuracy assessment techniques presented throughout the text. Powerful tools - GIS, mapping, remote sensing - are described and demonstrated using practical applications and combined to yield landscape ecological data, and ecological risk assessments. This book was written to assist scientists, engineers, technicians and other resource managers in the evaluation of wetland boundaries and characteristics. A thorough understanding of these methods is critical to the success of your project.. Using numerous technical methods, Wetland Landscape Characterization shows you how to evaluate the presence of wetlands, and the stressors, exposures and ecological systems - streams, lakes, terrestial - that influence their condition
Ankle deep, but has some useful information A Customer Though the book does not go into great detail, it does have useful information hidden in the text. I would have liked to see a better treating of GIS, like pratical examples and real case studies.A lot of the general information can be found on the web. What would make this book better would be some geostatistical examples, color photos as opposed to low res black and white ones, and a bigger section on GIS and remote sensing.. Superficial and Badly Out-of-Date I agree with the first reviewer. The book Wetland Landscape Characterization lacks detail sufficient to make it useful.It is very similar to another book by the author about Watershed characterization and uses much the same material. They are practically the same book in many ways.Many important wetlands are completely ignored and the ones that are featured are not significant.Lastely, the information is badly dated in this rapidly changing technology. There are critic. Juan C. Benavides said very basic but still functional. The book covers a wide arrange of topics but not in deep. Some topics are covered in a general way and provides an interesting approach while others are clearly outdated.