An overview of recent remote sensing and GIS based research in ecological informatics

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-36

  Boyd, D S ^a   Foody, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Ecology; Free and open source; Geographic Information Science; Geotechnology; Geovisualisation; Internet; Modelling; Remote sensing; Spatial; Temporal

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOINFORMATICS; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GIS; INTERNET; LITERATURE REVIEW; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH WORK; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 79651474138     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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