GIS Methodologies for Developing Conservation Strategies: Tropical Forest Recovery and Willdlife Management in Costa Rica

A group of renowned scientists provides an overview of state-of-the-art digital mapping technologies using Costa Rica--one of the world's richest areas of biodiversity--as a model. They show how the utilization of geographic information systems (GIS) can enhance conservation efforts by helping...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Columbia University Press [1998]
Schriftenreihe:Biology and Resource Management Series
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Zusammenfassung:A group of renowned scientists provides an overview of state-of-the-art digital mapping technologies using Costa Rica--one of the world's richest areas of biodiversity--as a model. They show how the utilization of geographic information systems (GIS) can enhance conservation efforts by helping scientists to monitor landscapes, trace park boundaries through unmarked wilderness, and identify regions where humans have only limited access
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Mar. 30, 2016)
Beschreibung:1 online resource 73 illus, 28 photos
ISBN:9780231505017

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