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Welcome to GIS for Environmental Management
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Unit 1: Introducing GIS in Environmental Management
1.1 Data – an insecure foundation for environmental management?
1.2 From Data to Indicator
1.3 Adaptive Management
1.4 Information-based Environmental decision-making – the role of GIS
Unit 2: Environmental Assessment and GIS
2.1 Origins and History of Environmental Assessment (EA)
2.2 The Environmental Assessment (EA) Process
Unit 3: Digital Elevation Models
3.1 Into the third dimension – digital elevation models
3.2 Data sources for elevation
3.3 Interpolating elevation data
3.4 Making calculations using elevation
3.5 Visualisation using elevation
3.6 Truly 3-dimensional data
Unit 4: DEMs for Environmental Management
4.1 Estimating radiation budgets using elevation
4.2 Siting wind turbines
4.3 Forest management using DEMs
4.4 Coursework assignment – visual impact assessment
Unit 5: GIS for Ecological Management
5.1 Representing vegetation and animal distributions
5.2 Understanding habitat – habitat suitability indices
5.3 Assessing landscape patterns
5.4 Scale in ecological management
5.5 Ecological reserve design using GIS
5.6 Modelling wildlife populations using GIS
Unit 6: Environmental Monitoring with GIS
6.1 Introduction to Time in Environmental GIS
6.2 Formats for spatio-temporal environmental data
6.3 Analysing Spatio-Temporal Data – Measuring change over time
6.4 Analysing Spatio-Temporal Data – Understanding animal movement
6.5 Analysing Spatio-Temporal Data – Spatially distributed dynamic models
6.6 Spatio-Temporal Data – Patterns using GIS
Unit 7: Land use/cover
7.1 Land use/land cover concepts and data
7.2 Land use/cover change modelling
7.3 Ecosystem services and land use / cover
7.4 Assignment – conservation and fire risk
Unit 8: Web-based Environmental GIS
8.1 Web-based GIS: the design attributes
8.2 Web-based data generated by the public
8.3 Web-based GIS: professionals sharing data
Unit 9: Environmental Spatial Decision Support
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