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Geographical Information Systems in Assessing Natural Hazards

The 16 contributions to Geographical Information Systems in Assessing Natural Hazards report on GIS investigations into landslides, floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and groundwater...More

Environmental Information Systems

Environmental information systems (EIS) are concerned with the management of data about the soil, the water, the air, and the species in the world around us. This first textbook on the topic...More

Spatial Complexity, Informatics, and Wildlife Conservation

As Earth faces the greatest mass extinction in 65 million years, the present is a moment of tremendous foment and emergence in ecological science. With leaps in advances in ecological research...More

Ocean Globe

Ocean Globe focuses on bathymetry - the study of underwater depth of the third dimension - within the larger context of work being done by scientists and educators around the world. Each chapter...More

Mapping Forestry

Mapping Forestry describes how GIS software supports the business of forestry in today's era of economic changes, increased global competition, and diminishing resources. In 20 scenarios from...More

Remote Sensing of Coastal Environments

As coastal environments around the world continue to face unprecedented natural and anthropogenic threats, recent developments in the technologies that support geospatial data acquisition,...More

Remote Sensing for Biodiversity and Wildlife Management: Synthesis and Applications

This state-of-the-art volume provides fundamental information on and practical applications of remote sensing technologies in wildlife management, habitat studies, and biodiversity assessment...More

Managing Water Resources: Methods and Tools for a Systems Approach

Water resources management is increasingly interdisciplinary and must take into account complex socioeconomic factors and environmental variables. This book describes the "systems approach" and...More

Wind Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment

Due to the mounting demand for energy and increasing population of the world, switching from nonrenewable fossil fuels to other energy sources is not an optionâ€”it is a necessity. Focusing on...More

Geographic Information Systems in Water Resources Engineering

GIS technology is increasingly used in water resources engineering in a variety of ways. This book provides a fundamental understanding of GIS, including how to develop and analyze geographic...More

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Towards a Global Licensing Framework for Geospatial Data

Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May. The effort aims to harmonize existing licensing without changing fundamental access policies and funding models and be compatible with the diferences in national legal systems. That's a tall order, but an important one as the world moves toward geodata sharing. Geoff Zeiss reports.