Mapping Wilderness: Concepts, Techniques and Applications - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9401773971 ISBN 13: 9789401773973

Publisher: Springer, 2016

About this title

About the Author

Steve Carver

Steve is a geographer with an interest in application of GIS to wilderness and wild landscapes. He is particularly interested in quality assessment, public participation and visibility analyses. He has worked widely on these topics in the UK, Europe and North America. He is Director of the Wildland Research Institute, and is based in the School of Geography, University of Leeds.

Steffen Fritz

Steffen is Head of the Earth Observation Systems group in the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at IIASA. Steffen is the main driver behind Geo-Wiki and is currently researching different incentive schemes for crowdsourcing of land cover in Kenya, Tanzania and Austria through the European Research Council funded project called CrowdLand. His PhD was on wilderness mapping under the supervision of Steve Carver.

From the Back Cover

This volume gives a comprehensive overview of wilderness mapping, and in doing so covers the conceptual and philosophical foundations, techniques and methodological approaches, and applications at a variety of spatial scales.

The Editors have brought together a range of contributors who are both experts in their field and cutting-edge thinkers in the wilderness and spatial mapping domain.  Spatial information technology and mapping science is a rapidly expanding and a developing field and so it is expected to be able to add to thisvolume in the future.

This book provides a record of the "state of the art" and will enable the reader to follow this lead and map his/her own wilderness.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9401773971
• ISBN 13: 9789401773973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 221
• Editor: Carver Stephen J., Fritz Steffen