Development and evaluation of a support system for forest education

Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-50

  Abe, Mitsutoshi ^a   Yoshimura, Tetsuhiko ^a   Yasukawa, Naoki ^a   Koba, Keisuke ^a   Moriya, Kazuyuki ^a   Sakai, Tetsuro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Education support system; Field experiments; Forest education; GPS; PDA

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DRAWING FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; FIELD EDUCATION PROGRAM; FOREST EDUCATION;

FORESTRY;

EDUCATION; FORESTRY; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

EID: 13244291660     PISSN: 13416979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10310-004-0099-6     Document Type: Article

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