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Geomatics and Conservation Biology (Paperback)
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Geomatics and Conservation Biology (Paperback)
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This edited book, composed of chapters written by scholars of the
geomatics-based, environmental and biological sciences, examines
selected topics from the intersecting fields of geomatics
(including remote sensing, geographical information science (GIS),
global positioning systems (GPS), mapping and field survey methods)
and conservation biology (including ecology and conservation
policy), with case studies from West Africa, Canada, India and
Malaysia. The focus is on some of the more important issues that
dominate current intersections between developments in geomatics
technology and those of conservation biology. Chapter One examines
the history and themes of geomatics and applications to
conservation biology research. Chapter Two presents a case study of
geomatics-based research on the vital issue of vulture ecology,
extinction and conservation in Central India. Chapter Three
examines the relationship between people and elephants in the Dalma
Wildlife Sanctuary and its surroundings in India, and it creates
habitat suitability models from geomatics techniques to assess and
predict elephant presence and potential human-elephant conflicts.
Chapter Four examines the history and status of remote sensing as
an aspect of geomatics, focusing mainly on satellite imagery.
Chapter Five looks at development in GIS and takes an example of
multidirectional landcover change from the West African savanna.
Chapter Six looks at developments in GPS technology, especially
concerning applications to the micro-habitats of bird presence and
applications to mammal behavior. Chapter Seven looks at the
subfield of animal geography, which looks at the subjective
behavior of individual animals and the technology used to measure
these detailed phenomena. Chapter Eight takes a case study of bird
migration and habitat utilization in the swamps of coastal
Malaysia. Chapter Nine looks at the utility of dated aerial
photographs and supporting field methods in the evaluation of
historical landcover change, covering periods before the
development of modern imaging techniques and using an example from
the West African savanna. This book makes an important contribution
to the intersections of geomatics and conservation biology.
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