An assessment of geographic information system skills used by field-level natural resource managers

Journal of Forestry

Volumn 105, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 364-370

  Merry, Krista L ^a   Bettinger, Pete ^a   Clutter, Mike ^a   Hepinstall, Jeffrey ^a   Nibbelink, Nathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Geospatial technologies; Survey

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; MAPPING; SURVEYS;

GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; EDUCATION; FORESTRY; GIS; MAPPING; NATURAL RESOURCE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 37349071391     PISSN: 00221201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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