Mapping Forest Landscape Patterns

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Synopsis

This book explores the concepts, premises, advancements, and challenges in quantifying natural forest landscape patterns through mapping techniques. After several decades of development and use, these tools can now be examined for their foundations, intentions, scope, advancements, and limitations. When applied to natural forest landscapes, mapping techniques must address concepts such as stochasticity, heterogeneity, scale dependence, non-Euclidean geometry, continuity, non-linearity, and parsimony, as well as be explicit about the intended degree of abstraction and assumptions. These studies focus on quantifying natural (i.e., non-human engineered) forest landscape patterns, because those patterns are not planned, are relatively complex, and pose the greatest challenges in cartography, and landscape representation for further interpretation and analysis.

Book details

Author:
Tarmo K. Remmel, Ajith H. Perera
ISBN:
9781493973316
Related ISBNs:
9781493973293
Publisher:
Springer New York
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2018-09-27
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2017
Copyright by:
Springer New York, New York, NY 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Technology