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GIS Applications in Agriculture, Volume Four: Conservation Planning, edited by Tom Mueller and Gretchen F. Sassenrath, is the fourth volume in the book series GIS Applications in Agriculture, which is designed to enhance the application and use of geographic information systems (GISs) in agriculture by providing detailed GIS applications that are useful to scientists, educators, students, consultants, and farmers. The first volume, GIS Applications in Agriculture, edited by Francis J. Pierce and David Clay, was published by CRC Press in 2007. The second volume, GIS Applications in Agriculture: Nutrient Management for Improved Energy Efficiency, edited by David Clay and John Shanahan, and the third volume, GIS Applications in Agriculture: Invasive Species, edited by Sharon Clay, were published by CRC Press in 2011. While the newest book in this series, the idea of a book on conservation planning using GIS was identified in 2007 when the book series began. Intuitively, conservation planning through GIS applications should appeal to all conservationists who clearly understand that a key to achieving soil and water conservation is rooted in an understanding of the spatial and temporal variation in both soil and water resources and natural and human-induced forces that affect the quality and quantity of those resources. <...>
If those of us in the geographic information system (GIS) realm have disregarded design in the past, we are now coming to realize that the elegant display of geographic data is as important as the data itself. Some resistance may be introduced when we talk about making a map look pretty; and rightly so. But elegance in mapping goes well beyond making a map look attractive. In this text, I explain exactly how to convey information to serve up the facts, hold the viewer’s attention, avoid potential confusion, and provide all the necessary metadata. Even with no prior experience in cartography, you can learn how to create maps with these qualities by studying these pages. Let’s begin. <...>
What is cartography today? When I look back on the first and second editions of this book, it’s almost like seeing cartography as it progressed since 2009 and it now looks almost nothing like it did then. The expansion of what’s possible has been incredible. Massive technological change, accompanied by free, open, highly detailed, and reliable datasets, along with a surge of interest in the field from all corners, combined to make what was once impossible cartographically, possible.
Geography has always been important to humans. Stone-age hunters anticipated the location of their quarry, early explorers lived or died by their knowledge of geography, and current societies work and play based on their understanding of who belongs where. Applied geography, in the form of maps and spatial information, has served discovery, planning, cooperation, and conflict for at least the past 3000 years (Figure 1-1). Maps are among the most beautiful and useful documents of human civilization.
About 2,200 years ago a scholarly librarian in charge of the prestigious collections of the museum at Alexandria conducted an elegant exercise in logic and experimentation. Using seemingly unrelated bits of information such as the observation of the penetration of sunlight into a well in the city of Syene, the speed of a camel caravan, and the shadow cast by an obelisk in Alexandria, Eratosthenes calculated a remarkably accurate estimate of the circumference of the earth (Wilford 1981).
Welcome to GIS Tutorial for Pro 2.8. This fourth-edition step-by-step workbook focuses on ArcGIS Pro but also covers Online and some of its major apps for mobile computing, including Dashboards, and Collector.
GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook is the direct result of the authors' experiences teaching GIS to high school students in a summer program at Carnegie Mellon University, undergraduate and graduate students in several departments and disciplines at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as working professionals. GIS Tutorial 1 is a hands-on workbook with step-by-step exercises that take the reader from the basics of using ArcGlS Desktop interfaces through performing advanced spatial analyses. <...>
Glacial environments are scenically and scientifically among the most exciting and complex on Earth. Apart from phenomena associated directly with moving or stagnating glaciers, fluvial, aeolian, lacustrine r.d marine processes frequently interact with ice and its deposits. Glacial environments therefore posris a wide variety of landforms and sediment associations. <...>
In the preface for the First Edition of Glacial Geology we wrote that this book is the product of two things; an enthusiasm for glacial geology and a perceived need for a student text with which to stimulate this enthusiasm in others. Thirteen years on we still believe this to be the case. The First Edition has sold well and has been well-received by undergraduates studying the subject. In the First Edition of Glacial Geology we also wrote that the aim of the book is simple: to provide an account of glacial geology which is accessible to undergraduates and uncluttered from unnecessary detail. Although we have taken the opportunity to update and revise a lot of the content in this Second Edition, reflecting new developments in the subject, we have tried to stay true to this original aim. We hope you will still find this an accessible and helpful treatment of the subject and that by reading this book you will share some of our enthusiasm for glacial geology. <...>
