Merry K. Geographic Information System Skills for Foresters...Managers 2023

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Geographic Information System Skills for Foresters and Natural Resource Managers provides a resource for developing knowledge and skills concerning GIS as it applies to forestry and natural resource management. This book helps readers understand how GIS can effectively be used by professional foresters and land managers to conduct spatial analyses or address management decisions. Through topics presented, readers will improve their ability to understand GIS data sources, identify GIS data types and quality, perform common spatial analysis processes, create GIS data, produce maps, and ultimately develop the skills necessary to use GIS analysis to answer real-world questions.This book will be of great benefit to GIS users looking to directly apply techniques to real-world data or foresters and natural resource scientists who use GIS in their research.
Geographic information systems
Geographic data
Reference systems
Making maps
Geographic data collection
Geographic data management
Geographic data processing—vector data
Geographic data processing—raster data
Remote sensing
Advanced applications in forestry and natural resource management
Professional practices