Global Forest Visualization
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Global Forest Visualization
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Author : Lynda Olman
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-02-20
Global Forest Visualization written by Lynda Olman and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-20 with Nature categories.
This book project examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management. Specifically, the book focuses on Global Forest Watch, the most developed and widely available forest-monitoring platform, created in 1997 by the World Resource Institute. Forest maps are always political as they visualize power relations and form the grid within which forests become commodities. This dislocation of the idea of the forest from its literal roots in the ground has generated problems for forest visualization efforts designed to empower local communities. This book takes a critical humanistic approach to this problem, combining methods from the fields of rhetoric and media studies to suggest solutions to these problems for designers and users of platforms like the Global Forest Watch. To explain why global views of forests can be disempowering, the book relies on biopolitical and rhetorical theories of panopticism and how these views unfold a different violence on different regions of the Earth in relation to colonial history. Using this theoretical framework, the book explains the historical process by which forests came to be classified, quantified, and mapped on a global scale. Interviews with end-users of global forest visualization platforms reveal if and how these platforms support local action. Lastly, the book provides rhetorical solutions to articulate global and local views of forests without reducing one view to the other. These solutions involve looking to forests themselves for clues about how to generate more broadly effective and resilient visualizations. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of forest studies, climate change, science communication, visualization studies, environmental communication, and environmental conservation.
Visualizing Forest Change
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Author : Ann Lynch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Visualizing Forest Change written by Ann Lynch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Forest and forestry categories.
Features For Learning And Visualizations Of Forest Lidar Data
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Author : Stewart He
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Features For Learning And Visualizations Of Forest Lidar Data written by Stewart He and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Climate change is one of the biggest political, social, and scientific issues facing the global community today with the health of the world's forests playing a critical role. In order to monitor the status of forests around the world environment scientists often rely on two specialized technologies: LiDAR(LIght Detecting And Ranging) and hyperspectral imagery. LiDAR of various resolutions enable researchers to scan hundreds of square kilometers at a time creating massive and detailed point clouds. At the same time hyperspectral imagery captures how light is reflect off the same surfaces across several hundred light frequency bands. Visualizing and analysing these datasets has continuously challenged scientists in both forestry and computer science. In this dissertation, we continue this effort to understand and utilize this data. Visualizing point clouds of forest proves to be challenging due to the unique nature of the problem. Forests are porous, thus scanning a forest produces little to no surfaces or useful normals which many point cloud visualization techniques rely upon. Instead we present a method of rendering silhouettes around points providing very useful depth cues without relying on normals. We then implement this technique to run web browsers like Firefox of Chrome to reduce setup time and on Android devices using Google Cardboard to provide stereoscopic 3D. There is a wide range of useful properties that can be extracted from LiDAR and hyperspectral imagery. In this dissertation we focus on identifying species at tree level using shape features combined with hyperspectral features. We present two different sets of shape features. One uses a binning approach that we refer to as histogram shape descriptors. The other uses a set of complex basis functions called Zernike polynomials. We use these polynomials to generate a set of Zernike moments that are used as features. We compare how these shape descriptors work in a variety of tests meant to represent a range of species and forest types.
Global Forest Monitoring From Earth Observation
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Author : Frederic Achard
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2016-04-19
Global Forest Monitoring From Earth Observation written by Frederic Achard and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with Nature categories.
Covering recent developments in satellite observation data undertaken for monitoring forest areas from global to national levels, this book highlights operational tools and systems for monitoring forest ecosystems. It also tackles the technical issues surrounding the ability to produce accurate and consistent estimates of forest area changes, which are needed to report greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use changes. Written by leading global experts in the field, this book offers a launch point for future advances in satellite-based monitoring of global forest resources. It gives readers a deeper understanding of monitoring methods and shows how state-of-art technologies may soon provide key data for creating more balanced policies.
Visualizing Climate Change
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Author : Stephen R.J. Sheppard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-03-29
Visualizing Climate Change written by Stephen R.J. Sheppard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-29 with Nature categories.
Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes melting) or abstract and scientific (charts and global temperature maps). Using dramatic visual imagery such as 3D and 4D visualizations of future landscapes, community mapping, and iconic photographs, this book demonstrates new ways to make carbon and climate change visible where we care the most, in our own backyards and local communities. Extensive color imagery explains how climate change works where we live, and reveals how we often conceal, misinterpret, or overlook the evidence of climate change impacts and our carbon usage that causes them. This guide to using visual media in communicating climate change vividly brings to life both the science and the practical solutions for climate change, such as local renewable energy and flood protection. It introduces powerful new visual tools (from outdoor signs to video-games) for communities, action groups, planners, and other experts to use in engaging the public, building awareness and accelerating action on the world’s greatest crisis.
Richtlinien F R Arbeitsvertr Ge In Anstalten Und Einrichtungen Die Dem Diakonischen Werk Innere Mission U Hilfswerk Der Evangel
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Richtlinien F R Arbeitsvertr Ge In Anstalten Und Einrichtungen Die Dem Diakonischen Werk Innere Mission U Hilfswerk Der Evangel written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.
Usda Forest Service Global Change Research Program Highlights 1991 95
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Author : Richard A. Birdsey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Usda Forest Service Global Change Research Program Highlights 1991 95 written by Richard A. Birdsey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Climatic changes categories.
Survive Or Thrive
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Author : Seda Terzyan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Survive Or Thrive written by Seda Terzyan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Academic theses categories.
Representing Modeling And Visualizing The Natural Environment
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Author : Nick Mount
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2008-12-22
Representing Modeling And Visualizing The Natural Environment written by Nick Mount and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-22 with Nature categories.
The explosion of public interest in the natural environment can, to a large extent, be attributed to greater public awareness of the impacts of global warming and climate change. This has led to increased research interest and funding directed at studies of issues affecting sensitive, natural environments. Not surprisingly, much of this work has re
Global Forest Resources
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Author : Alexander Smith Mather
language : en
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Release Date : 1990
Global Forest Resources written by Alexander Smith Mather and has been published by Timber Press (OR) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Nature categories.