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ENV510 Landscape Ecology and GIS
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These days
simple image analysis and processing functionality exist in GIS software and
some simple GIS functions are available in image processing software. Mostly
though, remotely sensed images are processed in image processing software and
then imported into a GIS in order to do some spatial analysis.
In the
past integration between GIS and RS was a problem as they often had different
data
structures and formats
but many GIS systems will now be able to directly take the image formats that
image processing software provides.
Integration
for environmental applications
Integration
of GIS and RS is very important for environmental applications, particularly
in studies using landscape ecological concepts as they require
Two instances of environmental applications are Vegetation mapping and modelling and Spatial habitat arrangements.
Think!
How do you think the integration of GIS and RS technologies can help landscape ecologists? Share your ideas in the discussion forum.
More?
'Integrating GIS and remote sensing to produce regional vegetation databases: attributes to environmental modelling'
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/conf/SANTA_FE_CD-ROM/sf_papers/franklin_janet/my_paper.html
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