1st Edition

Remote Sensing of Protected Lands

Edited By Yeqiao Wang Copyright 2012
636 Pages
by CRC Press

636 Pages
by CRC Press

604 Pages
by CRC Press

National parks, wildlife refuges and sanctuaries, natural reserves, conservation areas, frontier lands, and marine-protected areas are increasingly recognized as essential providers of ecosystem services and biological resources. As debates about climate change and sustainability intensify, protected areas become more important as indicators of ecosystem conditions in particular environments or... Read more

Remote Sensing of Protected Lands: An Overview. Remote Sensing of Changing Landscape of Protected Lands. Remote Sensing for Inventory, Mapping, and Conservation of Protected Lands and Waters. Remote Sensing for Inventory and Monitoring of Frontier Lands. Remote Sensing in Decision Support for Management of Protected Lands. Index.

Biography

Dr. Yeqiao Wang is a professor at the Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island. He has received several awards for his work, including the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President William J. Clinton in 2000. Dr. Wang’s specialties are terrestrial remote sensing and modeling in natural resources analysis and mapping. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, 70 abstracts and conference papers, and contributed more than 20 peer-reviewed book chapters. He also edited Remote Sensing of Coastal Environments (CRC Press 2009). Dr. Wang serves as the editor in chief for Encyclopedia of Natural Resources (Taylor & Francis), a three-volume set of Land, Air, and Water. Besides his professional publications in English, he has also authored and edited several science books in Chinese.





For more information, see Dr. Wang’s web site at the University of Rhode Island.