GPS Visitor Tracking and Recreation Suitability Mapping: Tools for understanding and managing visitor use

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 127, Issue , 2014, Pages 136-145

  Beeco, J Adam ^a   Hallo, Jeffrey C ^a   Brownlee, Matthew T J ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; GPS; Recreation; Spatial zoning; Suitability mapping; Visitor tracking

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA INTEGRATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

MAPPING METHOD; PUBLIC FORESTS; RECREATION; SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL MODELING; SPATIAL MODELS; VISITOR MANAGEMENT;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

GPS; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; RECREATIONAL FACILITY; RECREATIONAL MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRACKING;

EID: 84901245732     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.04.002     Document Type: Article

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