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Managing The Middle Ground: Forests In The Transition Zone Between Cities And Remote Areas, Charles Colgan, Malcolm L. Hunter Jr., Aaron Weiskittel, Brian Mcgill
Managing The Middle Ground: Forests In The Transition Zone Between Cities And Remote Areas, Charles Colgan, Malcolm L. Hunter Jr., Aaron Weiskittel, Brian Mcgill
Publications
In many parts of the world there are extensive landscapes where forests and people strongly intermingle, notably in the suburbs and exurbs of cities. This landscape of transitional forest generally receives limited attention from policy makers and researchers who tend to be rooted in traditions centered on either urban planning or management of natural resources in rural areas. The transitional forest is on the periphery of both perspectives, but it is a large area that provides numerous important values (biodiversity, ecosystem function, forest products, and amenities) to the people that live in them and their neighboring cities. Here we argue …
Accuracy Assessment Of Land Cover Maps Of Forests Within An Urban And Rural Environment, Daniel Unger, I-Kuai Hung, David L. Kulhavy
Accuracy Assessment Of Land Cover Maps Of Forests Within An Urban And Rural Environment, Daniel Unger, I-Kuai Hung, David L. Kulhavy
Faculty Publications
Land cover maps of forests within an urban and rural environment derived from high spatial resolution multispectral data (QuickBird) and medium spatial resolution multispectral data (Landsat ETM+ and SPOJ 4) were compared to ascertain whether increased spatial resolution increases map accuracy of forests and whether map accuracy varies across land cover classification schemes. It is commonly assumed that increased spatial resolution would probably increase land cover map accuracy regardless of land cover classification methodology. This study assessed whether that assumption is correct within a rural and an urban environment. Map accuracy for modified National Land Cover Data (NLCD) 2001 Level …
Reading With The Grain: On Vin Nardizzi’S Wooden Os: Shakespeare’S Theatres And England’S Trees, Steven Swarbrick
Reading With The Grain: On Vin Nardizzi’S Wooden Os: Shakespeare’S Theatres And England’S Trees, Steven Swarbrick
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