visualisation for coastal zone management

... practices for the East, to cater to faster but less precise (i.e gross) decision-making 12.5 CONCLUSION Ultimately, integrated coastal zone management should be informed coastal zone management ... (Oxford, England: Clarendon Press) Bartlett, D.J., 2000, Cultures, Coasts and Computers: Potential and Pitfalls in Applying GIS for Coastal Zone Management, In Hidden Risks: Subtle Issues in Coastal ... the coastal zone Ekologia (CSFR), 10, pp 43–53 Burrough, P and McDonnell, R., 1997, Principles of Geographical Information Systems, (Oxford: Oxford University Press) Carter, R.W.G., 1988, Coastal...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... result in state of the art performance for both tagging tasks Maximum Entropy Models A conditional ME model, also known as a loglinear model, has the following form: P(YIX) = Z(x) exp ilifi(xJ)) ... as possible The original formulation of GIS (Darroch and Ratcliff, 1972) required the sum of the feature values for each event to be constant Since this is not the case for many applications, the ... proposed for smoothing ME models (see Chen and Rosenfeld (1999)) For taggers, a standard technique is to eliminate low frequency features, based on the assumption that they are unreliable or uninformative...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 02:20

... matter or form in diferent respects: matter for the larger assemblies that make use of them, form for the tinier components they unite beneath their umbrella Is my laptop computer matter or form? ... physical force, propaganda, or God There is no privileged force to which the others can be reduced, and certainly no ceaseless interplay between pure natural forces and pure social forces, each ... we force politicians to make on our behalf’ (PF, p 210) The politician forever balances information, funding, threats, kindness, politeness, loyalty, disloyalty, and the perpetual search for...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... area Development zone Conservation zone Conservation zone Buffer zone Conservation zone Buffer zone Development zone 21 Conclusions For 1st objective 1.The total areas of the fallow forest were doubly ... watershed area 17 Suggestion zones for sustainable of watershed management Buffer zone Conservation zone This zone is designed to link between development and conversation zones Land use option: field ... use zones Conservation zone Buffer zone Development (Agricultural) zone 2.These zones can be the most important tools for agricultural development planning because it provided integrated information...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... Agriculture and Forestry The delineations for the Production Forests and the National Biodiversity Conservation Areas (NBCA) are in a dataset for each type, while the Protection Forest Areas are ... conducting forest and land use mapping and field verification It distinguishes 24 different types of land cover, of which ten represent different forest classes (MAF, Department of Forestry, 2005) Unfortunately, ... data was elaborated Production Forest, National Biodiversity Conservation Area and Protection Forest The data delineating the different forest areas according to forest classification type is...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... goal, that should guide development of management information systems, is development of tools that are useful for busy practitioners to access and use information Practitioners need methods to ... http://www.esri.com/industries/water/business/literature.html GIS for Infrastructure Management and Construction • Water and wastewater organizations are often responsible for constructing and/or overseeing the development ... replacement of old facilities GIS aids in tracking information related to projects, permits, construction work order management, inspections, as-builts, and so forth • Dynamic segmentation and image integration...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 18:06

... not extend to copying for general distribution, for promotion, for creating new works, or for resale Specific permission must be obtained in writing from CRC Press LLC for such copying Direct ... used to forecast business income statements It is not uncommon for these to be 10 columns wide by 40 rows long, and many are much larger Even allowing for half of the cells to be used for formatting, ... Information Systems (GIS), and spreadsheets (particularly Microsoft Excel) This book, however, does not provide a tutorial for these software programs Therefore, we provide below suggestions for...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 09:59

... time’, for a time’, ‘the right time’, ‘in time’, and so forth Again, it will not be appropriate to expand ‘e1 occurred before e2 ’ as ‘e1 occurred at a time before e2 ’, and while, for us, to ... Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., ... current ways of thinking They would be right However, for the most part, the criticisms made are made less for themselves, more to prepare the way for a positive x Preface resolution of the problems...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:50

... sensing and geographic information systems for natural disaster management 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Disaster management 10.3 Remote sensing and GIs: tools in disaster management 10.3.1 Introduction ... Sensing Figure 1.1: Ingredients necessary for a successful geographic information system (GIS) for environmental management project -policy, participation and information These elements require the ... environmental management GIs and remote sensing have been combined with environmental models for many applications, including for example, monitoring of deforestation, agro-ecological zonation, ozone...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... form an environmental envelope for the species Firstly, the BIOCLIM process involves ordering each variable Secondly, if the climate value for a grid cell falls within a user-defined range (for ... CIS Oxford Oxford University Press Moore, D.M., Lees, B.G and Davey, S.M., 1990, A New Method for predicting vegetation distributions using decision tree analysis in a GIs Envirorzmental Management, ... modelling with CIS Oxford, Oxford University Press Moussa, O.M., Smith, S.E et al., 1990, GIs for Monitoring Sediment-Yield from Large Watershed In Proceedings of GIS/LIS '90, Anaheim California, ASP&RS,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... sensing applications for forest management; workpackage report workpackage 6; User requirement study for remote sensing based spatial information for the sustainable management of forests ITC, Enschede, ... aerial photographs for certain types of detailed mapping; for example, gas pipeline routing, urban planning and real estate This includes the use of high resolution imagery for three-dimensional ... for measuring the atmosphere's temperature and humidity profiles, the Earth's radiation budget, space environment, instruments for distress signal detection (search and rescue), instruments for...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... and overall management of wildlife 7.3 MAPPING WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION Geographic information on the distribution of wildlife populations forms a basic source of information in wildlife management ... of such maps for wildlife or faunal management Typically, vegetation maps contain thematic information on physiognomy, species composition or some other vegetation attributes (see for example ... distributions 7.5.1 Habitats and habitat maps Information and maps on wildlife distributions are essential for wildlife management In many cases however, management interventions focus on the resource...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... evapotranspiration, ET Since the formulation of Dalton's law in 1802, a great number of formulae for the calculation of evaporation have been developed What determines the type of evaporation formula to apply ... energy from the net heat balance is used for evaporation The most sophisticated formulae for calculation of potential evapotranspiration are the combined formulae, which are combinations of the ... area index is less straightforward than the fAPAR transformation above, and the best result is probably obtained by the use of a full radiative transfer model, see for example: Begue (1993) and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:23

... quickly recover For more information about disaster management the reader is referred to the following websites: The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): The Global Emergency Management ... investment of funds for disaster mitigation To effectively mitigate disasters a complete strategy for disaster management is required, which is also referred to as the disaster management cycle ... losses The following activities form part of disaster prevention: Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore Remote sensing and geographic information systems ,for natural disaster management 207 Disaster preparedness...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:23

... Model for space-time data Model for space-time data Model for projection Standard DBMS and GIs Standard DBMS and GIs GIs, modelling environments and frameworks Geo-spatial tools required for the ... of questions are indicated Table 12.1: Requirements for different questions Question Data Models Techniques What is where? Spatial data Model for spatial data What is changing where? What will ... Geo-spatial tools required for the analyses in Table 12.1 may be defined For example, the 'what is where' question requires a geographic information system (GIs) to store spatial data and make simple (Boolean)...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:23

... regarding the national land information strategies The transformation of the Dutch Council for Real Estate Information into a National Council for Geographic Information in 1992 also marked a ... Geographic Information Systems National Spatial Data Infrastructure National Geographic Information System National Infrastructure for Land Information Systems National Geographical Information ... grateful for the generous support of the following sponsors: Association for Geographic Information Blackwell Publishers Ltd CadCorp Ltd EDINA Elsevier Science ESRI (UK) Ltd Ordnance Survey Oxford...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:20

... lead to the development of an evidence base that would enable management to make informed decisions about resource targeting and policy formulation, and to monitor and evaluate strategies that have ... data from the 1991 census and other descriptive information from other sources such as the electoral roll and consumer surveys (for further information, refer to the work by Brown and Batey, 1994) ... an indication of demand from the public for police intervention or ‘‘formal social control’’ (Bowers and Hirschfield, 1999) The categories of incident for which call records were provided are...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:20

... Kingdom, but there are significant variations among the forces in extent and purpose of use (Weir and Bangs, 2007) There are therefore opportunities for using GIS more and better, with stronger integration ... importance given in the United States to GIS for crime analysis is most clearly demonstrated by the work of the Mapping & Analysis for Public Safety (MAPS) program (formerly the Crime Mapping Research ... crime incidents, and police policy making for crime reduction and prevention For hot spot analysis, Ratcliffe and McCullagh (1999) developed a methodology for detecting various hot spots using a...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:20

... 23(4), 359–372 HR Wallingford, 2000, National Appraisal of Assets at Risk for Flooding and Coastal Erosion—Technical Report HR Wallingford, SR 573 (Wallingford: HR Wallingford) Morris, D.G and Flavin, ... geographical information systems for land use impact assessment in flooding conditions Journal of Water resources Planning and Management 124(2), 89–98 Dash, N., 1997, The use of geographical information ... (Haggett, 1998) but for many flood planners the advantages of GIS are not considered or fully understood For instance, the City of Edinburgh Council stores all information for responding to a...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:20

... of graph theory for use in searching for geographical-based information 8.1.1 Background The need to identify patterns of illness and disease is not uncommon in public health, for example the ... that were developed for searching the geographical data After presenting the results of the searches, we discuss the utility of the method for identifying geographical patterns for public health ... information associated with them, such as atomic type, geographical areas can also have information associated with them, such as deprivation, census variables, and mortality and morbidity information...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:20