Mapping Forest Landscape Patterns

ISBN 10: 1493984551 / ISBN 13: 9781493984558

Published by Springer, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Mapping Forest Landscape Patterns

Publisher: Springer

Publication Date: 2018

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Book Type: book

About this title

Synopsis:

Explores the concepts, premises, advancements and challenges in quantifying natural forest landscape patterns through mapping and modeling techniques

Presents a series of case study examples of the latest technological advancements in mapping

Offers a collection of topical syntheses that cover the state of knowledge on characterizing, representing, and mapping of natural forest landscapes, and suggests opportunities and needs for future research

About the Author:

Tarmo K. Remmel, Ph.D. (University of Toronto), Associate Professor of Geography at York University: A GIScientist with over 10 years of experience teaching and conducting research involving remote sensing, GIS, and spatial statistics, Dr. Remmel focuses primarily on boreal forests, with a particular emphasis on wildfire disturbances and on the development of algorithms for measuring and assessing spatial patterns, planar shapes, and the quantification of spatial change and accuracy. A strong proponent of free and open source software tools, particularly within the R-project to facilitate implementation, his work integrates field-level data collection with remotely sensed imagery obtained from satellite, aircraft, and UAV platforms to characterize the effects of scale.

Ajith H. Perera, Ph.D. (Penn State University), Senior Research Scientist and leader of the forest landscape ecology program at Ontario Forest Research Institute, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, adjunct professor at University of Waterloo, York University and University of Guelph: With over 25 years research experience in landscape ecology, Dr. Perera’s major focus is on quantifying and modeling spatio-temporal patterns in boreal forest disturbances. He has authored over 150 science publications, and been senior editor, co-editor and author of eight books on Forest Landscape Ecology.