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Author : M. I. Dyer,D. A. Crossley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Artificial satellites in remote sensing
ISBN : PURD:32754078798695
Author : Lynton Keith Caldwell,Paul Stanley Weiland
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 0822318660
In this newly revised and expanded edition of the award-winning International Environmental Policy, Lynton Keith Caldwell updates his comprehensive survey of the global international movement for protection of the environment. Serving as a history of international cooperation on environmental issues, this book focuses primarily on the development of international agreements and institutional arrangements--both governmental and nongovernmental--along with the impact of science, technology, trade, and communication on environmental policy. With implications for multinational commerce, population policy, agriculture, energy issues, biological and cultural diversity, transnational equity, ideology, and education, this book takes a broad view of the policy outcomes of what may be the most important social movement of the 20th century, and addresses the events and politics that have significantly affected the movement over the last twenty years and will continue to affect it into the next century.
Author : Richard J. Hobbs,Harold A. Mooney
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461233022
Harold A. Mooney and Richard J. Hobbs At present there is enormous concern about the changes that are occurring on the surface of the earth and in the earth's atmosphere, primarily as a result of human activities. These changes, particularly in the atmosphere, have the potential for altering the earth's habitability. International pro grams unprecedented in scope, including the International Geosphere Biosphere Program, have been initiated to describe and understand these changes. The global change program will call for coordinated measure ments on a global scale of those interactive physical and biological pro cesses that regulate the earth system. The program will rely heavily on the emerging technology of remote sensing from airborne vehicles, particularly satellites. Satellites offer the potential of continuously viewing large seg ments of the earth's surface, thus documenting the changes that are occur ring. The task, however, is not only to document global change, which will be an enormous job, but also to understand the significance of these changes to the biosphere. Effects on the biosphere may cover all spatial scales from global to local. The possibility of measuring biosphere function remot~ly and continuously from satellite imagery must be explored quickly and thoroughly in order to meet the challenge of understanding the con sequences of global change. Initial guidelines and approaches are currently being formulated (Dyer and Crossley, 1986; JOI, 1984; NAS, 1986; Rasool, 1987). There are many conceptual and technical issues that must be resolved H. A. Mooney and R. J.
Author : Daniel B. Botkin,Margriet F. Caswell,John E. Estes
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483260655
Changing the Global Environment: Perspectives on Human Involvement focuses on the extent of global environmental changes and the extent to which technology can be employed to improve the global environment. This book is divided into three sections. Section I sets forth a broad perspective on specific conceptual issues of concern such as the sustainable use of the global ocean; deforestation and extinction of species; large-scale alteration of biological productivity due to transported pollutants; and soil degradation and conversion of tropical rainforests. The second section discusses technologies of remote sensing, computer-based data systems, and advanced chemical analytical techniques. The interactions among social, environmental, and economic goals and the role that technological advances might play in attaining these goals are deliberated in Section III. This publication is valuable to environmentalists and students interested in how technologies can change man’s perception of the environment.
Author : Andrew J. Hansen,Francesco DiCastri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461228042
The emergence of landscape ecology during the 1980s represents an impor tant maturation of ecological theory. Once enamored with the conceptual beauty of well-balanced, homogeneous ecosystems, ecologists now assert that much of the essence of ecological systems lies in their lumpiness. Patches with differing properties and behaviors lie strewn across the land scape, products of the complex interactions of climate, disturbance, and biotic processes. It is the collective behavior of this patchwork of eco systems that drives pattern and process of the landscape. is not an end point This realization of the importance of patch dynamics in itself, however. Rather, it is a passage to a new conceptual framework, the internal workings of which remain obscure. The next tier of questions includes: What are the fundamental pieces that compose a landscape? How are these pieces bounded? To what extent do these boundaries influence communication and interaction among patches of the landscape? Will con sideration of the interactions among landscape elements help us to under stand the workings of landscapes? At the core of these questions lies the notion of the ecotone, a term with a lineage that even predates ecosystem. Late in the nineteenth century, F. E. Clements realized that the transition zones between plant communi ties had properties distinct from either of the adjacent communities. Not until the emergence of patch dynamics theory, however, has central signif icance of the ecotone concept become apparent.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112063914284
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Government publications
ISBN : WISC:89013738166
Author : E. Schanda
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642662362
The public's serious concern about the uncertainties and dangers of the conse quences of human activities on environmental quality demands policies to control the situation and to prevent its deterioration. But far-reaching decisions on the environmental policy are impaired or even made impossible as long as the relevant ecological relations are not sufficiently understood and large-scale quantitative information on the most important parameters is not available in sufficient quality and quantity. The techniques of remote sensing offer new ways of procuring data on natural phenomena with three main advantages - the large distance between sensor and object prevents interference with the environmental conditions to be measured, - the potentiality for large-scale and even global surveys yields a new dimension for the investigations of the environmental parameters, - the extremely wide, spectral range covered by the whole diversity of sensors discloses many properties of the environmental media not detectable within a single wave band (as e.g. the visible). These significant additions to the conventional methods of environmental studies and the particular qualification of several remote sensing methods for quantitative determination of the natural parameters makes this new investigation technique an important tool both to the scientists studying the ecological relationship and the administration in charge of the environmental planning and protection.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : MINN:31951D03001169M
Author : Ni-Bin Chang
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439877449
Using a systems analysis approach and extensive case studies, Environmental Remote Sensing and Systems Analysis shows how remote sensing can be used to support environmental decision making. It presents a multidisciplinary framework and the latest remote sensing tools to understand environmental impacts, management complexity, and policy implicatio
Author : Pavan Kumar,Manoj Kumar,Ram Kumar Singh,Meenu Rani,Yonghao Xu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832540275
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Ecology
ISBN : OSU:32435020494969
Author : Ned Horning,Julie A. Robinson,Eleanor J. Sterling,Woody Turner,Sacha Spector
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780191551468
The work of conservation biology has grown from local studies of single species into a discipline concerned with mapping and managing biodiversity on a global scale. Remote sensing, using satellite and aerial imaging to measure and map the environment, increasingly provides a vital tool for effective collection of the information needed to research and set policy for conservation priorities. The perceived complexities of remotely sensed data and analyses have tended to discourage scientists and managers from using this valuable resource. This text focuses on making remote sensing tools accessible to a larger audience of non-specialists, highlighting strengths and limitations while emphasizing the ways that remotely sensed data can be captured and used, especially for evaluating human impacts on ecological systems.
Author : Nathalie Pettorelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780191026799
The ability to anticipate the impacts of global environmental changes on natural resources is fundamental to designing appropriate and optimised adaptation and mitigation strategies. However, this requires the scientific community to have access to reliable, large-scale information on spatio-temporal changes in the distribution of abiotic conditions and on the distribution, structure, composition, and functioning of ecosystems. Satellite remote sensing can provide access to some of this fundamental data by offering repeatable, standardised, and verifiable information that is directly relevant to the monitoring and management of our natural capital. This book demonstrates how ecological knowledge and satellite-based information can be effectively combined to address a wide array of current natural resource management needs. By focusing on concrete applied examples in both the marine and terrestrial realms, it will help pave the way for developing enhanced levels of collaboration between the ecological and remote sensing communities, as well as shaping their future research directions. Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources is primarily aimed at ecologists and remote sensing specialists, as well as policy makers and practitioners in the fields of conservation biology, biodiversity monitoring, and natural resource management.
Author : Carolyn T. Hunsaker,Michael F. Goodchild,Mark A. Friedl,Ted J. Case
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461302094
This is one of the first books to take an ecological perspective on uncertainty in spatial data. It applies principles and techniques from geography and other disciplines to ecological research, and thus delivers the tools of cartography, cognition, spatial statistics, remote sensing and computer sciences by way of spatial data. After describing the uses of such data in ecological research, the authors discuss how to account for the effects of uncertainty in various methods of analysis.