Forest Disturbance and Spatial Pattern: Remote Sensing and GIS Approaches

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Written by experts, peer-reviewed to adhere to the strictest standards and highest quality criteria, this book discusses natural and human-caused forest change. The chapters explore forest disturbance and spatial pattern from an ecological point-of-view within the context of structure, function, pattern, and change. They conclude with a summary of the issues related to detection and mapping of forest disturbances with remotely sensed and GIS data. The book elucidates how the elements presented, from ecological underpinnings, data considerations, change detection method, and pattern analysis, combine into a problem solving, information generating approach.

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The Water Cycle (Nature's Changes)
Bobbie Kalman , and Rebecca Sjonger
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Quantifying Spatial Uncertainty in Natural Resources: Theory and Applications for GIS and Remote Sensing

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Quantifying Spatial Uncertainty in Natural Resources: Theory and Applications for GIS and Remote Sensing
Russell Congalton
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ASIN: 1575041316

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Spatial uncertainty analysis has become a recognized discipline that integrates expertise from geographic information science, remote sensing, spatial and classical statistics and many others. The chapters are divided into two sections; the first section concentrates on accuracy assessment issues and the second on modelling uncertainty. This book will be useful both to those new to spatial uncertainty assessment and to experienced practitioners. Those interested in the application of appropriate uncertainty assessment techniques are provided with examples of many applications based in remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS). For researchers, this book presents a snapshot of the state-of-the-art of uncertainty assessment, providing theoretical chapters based in classical and spatial statistics.

Exploring Water Resources: GIS Investigations for the Earth Sciences, ArcGIS® Edition

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Exploring Water Resources: GIS Investigations for the Earth Sciences, ArcGIS® Edition
Michelle K. Hall , C. Scott Walker , Anne Huth , Larry P. Kendall , Jennifer A. Weeks , and Jeff S. Jenness
Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
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ASIN: 0495115126

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Start using the technology you'll need tomorrow, today! EXPLORING WATER RESOURCES: GIS INVESTIGATIONS FOR THE EARTH SCIENCES, ARCGISÂ® EDITION is a collection of invesigation guides that let you tap into the power of ArcGISÂ® software no matter your skill level. Use it to explore, manipulate, and analyze large data sets quickly and easily. And because this GIS textbook is full of study tools, it will come in handy during test time as well.

Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite: A New Operational Cloud Imager

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Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite: A New Operational Cloud Imager
Keith D. Hutchison , and Arthur P. Cracknell
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The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is the next-generation multispectral imaging instrument to fly on US operational, polar-orbiting meteorological satellites. VIIRS will gather data across 22 spectral bands and be used to create products for a variety of applications including weather forecasting and climate change studies. VIIRS consolidates the best features of heritage instruments, including near-constant resolution and nighttime visible imagery. Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite: A New Operational Cloud Imager provides the first comprehensive guide on the design and exploitation of cloud data collected by the VIIRS. Expert researchers Hutchison and Cracknell discuss the fundamental principles necessary to interpret surface and cloud features in multispectral meteorological satellite imagery. They begin by tracing the evolution of satellite meteorology and detailing previous instruments on which VIIRS is based. Next, they examine the user requirements for VIIRS data products and the studies used to convert these requirements into sensor design parameters. The focus then shifts to the principles and techniques used to exploit VIIRS cloud data. The book ends with a comprehensive discussion of automated processes to retrieve 3-dimensional cloud fields from a variety of algorithms, some of which were developed for the VIIRS. Supplying material for both experienced researchers and those new to the field, Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite is a must-read for anyone interested in evaluating and using the data gathered from the VIIRS project.

Landscape Pattern Analysis for Assessing Ecosystem Condition (Environmental and Ecological Statistics Series)

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Landscape Pattern Analysis for Assessing Ecosystem Condition (Environmental and Ecological Statistics Series)
Glen D. Johnson
Manufacturer: Springer
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One of our greatest current challenges is the preservation and remediation of ecosystem integrity. This requires monitoring and assessment over large geographic areas, repeatedly over time, and cannot be practically fulfilled by field measurements alone. Remotely sensed imagery plays a crucial role by its ability to monitor large spatially continuous areas. This technology increasingly provides extensive spatial-temporal data; however, the challenge is to extract meaningful environmental information from such extensive data. This book presents a new method for assessing spatial pattern in raster land cover maps based on satellite imagery in a way that incorporates multiple pixel resolutions. This is combined with more conventional single-resolution measurements of spatial pattern and simple non-spatial land cover proportions to assess predictability of both surface water quality and ecological integrity within watersheds of the state of Pennsylvania (USA).

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Gone Again Ptarmigan
Jonathan London
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Remote Sensing of Aquatic Coastal Ecosystem Processes: Science and Management Applications (Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing)

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Remote Sensing of Aquatic Coastal Ecosystem Processes: Science and Management Applications (Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing)
Richardson L.L.
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ASIN: 1402039670

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The aquatic coastal zone is one of the most challenging targets for environmental remote sensing. Properties such as bottom reflectance, spectrally diverse suspended sediments and phytoplankton communities, diverse benthic communities, and transient events that affect surface reflectance (coastal blooms, runoff, etc.) all combine to produce an optical complexity not seen in terrestrial or open ocean systems. Despite this complexity, remote sensing is proving to be an invaluable tool for "Case 2" waters. This book presents recent advances in coastal remote sensing with an emphasis on applied science and management. Case studies of the operational use of remote sensing in ecosystem studies, monitoring, and interfacing remote sensing/science/management are presented. Spectral signatures of phytoplankton and suspended sediments are discussed in detail with accompanying discussion of why blue water (Case 1) algorithms cannot be applied to Case 2 waters.

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This book is targeted for scientists and managers interested in using remote sensing in the study or management of aquatic coastal environments. With only limited discussion of optics and theory presented in the book, such researchers might benefit from the detailed presentations of aquatic spectral signatures, and to operational management issues. While not specifically written for remote sensing scientists, it will prove to be a useful reference for this community for the current status of aquatic coastal remote sensing.

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An interactive CD accompanies this book containing the WASI program by Peter Gege (DLR, Germany). The WASI program allows users to interactively manipulate and view coastally relevant spectra. The CD also contains full color images of a selection of illustrations which are printed as black and white figures in the book.

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Conservation Geography

Manufacturer: Esri Press
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Showing how GIS and geography provide a framework for ecology and conservation efforts, this book describes how new technological tools for that kind of analysis, chief among them GIS, are being used to revolutionize the work of conservation.

Expert Systems and Geographical Information Systems for Impact Assessment

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Expert Systems and Geographical Information Systems for Impact Assessment
Agustin Rodriguez-Bachiller
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ASIN: 0415307252

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Impact Assessment is becoming part and parcel of an increasing number of development proposals in the UK and Europe. As the practice of Impact Assessment develops it becomes more standardized and good practice starts to be defined. However, the quality of Impact Assessment is still far from satisfactory. Expert Systems and GIS for Impact Assessment discusses the potential of integrating these two well known computer technologies to help with the process of Impact Assessment. The proposition behind the work is that all three areas are potentially complementary and that mutual benefits can be gained from bringing them together in the field of planning. Following an introduction to each area, the various ways in which GIS and Expert Systems can be applied are discussed. This book is aimed at professionals working with Environmental Impact Assessment, GIS, and expert systems professionals and students in these areas.

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The first real book about the Houston Astros!!!! READ IT!!!

Astros without Soul

Excellent reading for an Astros fan

An interesting and entertaining guided tour of baseball

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This Ain't Brain Surgery: How to Win the Pennant Without Losing Your Mind
Larry Dierker
Manufacturer: Bison Books
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ASIN: 0803266510

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Nearly everyone in major-league baseball was surprised when longtime Houston Astros player and then broadcaster Larry Dierker was hired to manage the Astros following the 1996 season without previous managerial experience at any level of the game. In the five years that followed, however, Dierker confounded the experts and led the team to four National League Central division titles and four playoff appearances, and was named the National League Manager of the Year in 1998.

Adroitly handling every sort of distraction and disaster than can befall a team—including suffering a nearly catastrophic seizure during a game—Dierker excelled like no other manager in Astros history, until resigning at the end of the 2001 season.

In This Ain’t Brain Surgery, Larry Dierker draws on his vast experience of nearly four decades in baseball to reflect on his tenure as Astros manager, telling the reader along the way that the game isn’t so simple, that personalities clash, and that intuition isn’t everything. Woven into the narrative of this book are thoughtful and humorous anecdotes from his playing days.

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The first real book about the Houston Astros!!!! READ IT!!!.......2005-03-27

Dierker takes you from the sixties to the 2002 season with a very unique view of the almost champion Houston Astros!!!! This is a very good accounting of the history of the team, Dierker's days as a player, his time as a manager, and the inner workings of the team and players of the late nineties and early 2000s!!! The book is approximately 300 pages long and the first 180 pages or so fly by as Dierker gives you rare insight into the Astros (probably the least-written about team in baseball to have won so many division titles). The book slows down as Dierker waxes nostalgic about how to deal with umpires and a few other topics, but even those topics have a refreshing, level-headed quality that make them worth your time. In short, this is a book that should be read by most every Houston Astros fan, and a very good book for those looking for real insight into the game and business of baseball without all of the ego or BS that usually fills managerial retrospectives!!!!

Astros without Soul.......2003-12-13

I lived in the Houston during the mid-60s and the both Astros and the Astrodome were two of the most exciting elements of the city. None of that whimsy and glee is reflected in Dierker's book. You don't get a feel for the great Astro characters such as Jimmy Wynn, Rusty Staub or Bob Aspromonte. Sadder still is the fact that Dierker worked with the great Gene Elston in the broadcast booth for many years and Elston is seldom mentioned. The definitive Astros book is still waiting to be written.

Excellent reading for an Astros fan.......2003-08-24

This is an excellent book that gives insight into the game that the ordinary fan would never get a chance to see. The book has sections dedicated to different aspects of the game including managing, umpires, the farm system, and more, and Larry has great stories for each one. As an Astros fan my favorite parts were the ones that talked about his dealings with some of the current and former Astros. It was interesting to read about the interactions he had with the players, and how he regarded some of the players in the clubhouse. As a player, broadcaster, and manager he witnessed enough to come up with an excellent book that makes great reading for any Astros fan, and that baseball fans in general can appreciate too.

An interesting and entertaining guided tour of baseball.......2003-07-30

I enjoyed this book greatly. Larry Dierker is a very bright guy who seems to have a gift for looking at situations and seeing them from angles that other sports figures would never find. An example of this is his telling Darryl Kyle to improve his pitching by playing a lot of serious golf in the off season. He also has the capacity to be self critical in ways that appear to be quite honest. He has real writing talent, which I always enjoyed when he wrote columns for the Houston paper when he was in the broadcast booth. He comes across as a guy you'd love to tip a few with.

I like the way the book is organized, with chapters dedicated to individual baseball topics like spring training, scouts, etc. and relating Dierker's experience in the area. There's enough humor to generate plenty of smiles and enough serious stuff to let a reader get a feel for what baseball players, managers and broadcasters go through.

In my opinion, if you have any interest in baseball you should enjoy this book.

Only so-so.......2003-07-28

I am also a long time Astro fan, but only found the book marginally enjoyable. The first 50 and last 50 pages of the book were more enjoyable when he told humorous stories about his playing and broadcasting days. However, he seemed to me to have lost a lot of his sense of humor when discussing his managerial days . . . perhaps reflecting what a strain the job was on him. I recommend the book, just wish he spent more time talking about his playing days. Also, it seems that he did not really right anything controversial, perhaps because he is still hoping for some kind of baseball job in the future. C'mon, he can't tell me that in the 5 years he managed, he didn't run across at least one prima donna player or front office type that deserves trashing!

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