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ENV510 Landscape Ecology and GIS
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For centuries people have
realised that it is advantageous to collect information about the landscape
from a distance above the earth's surface. Originally people would have climbed
to the highest peak to assess the land below. Today remote sensing is used to
capture landscape information and image processing is used to translate the
information captured into useable data or maps.
Remote
sensing (RS)
is the technique of collecting data from a distance above the ground
Types of remotely sensed
data include:
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