Landscape ecology: Spatial data and analytical approaches

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6083703

Krummel, J R

The study of landscape structure and function involves the use of data, analysis methodologies, models, and computer resources that have only recently become available to the scientific community. Central to these developments is the idea that landscape studies must explicitly incorporate the spatial pattern found in the environment. While the analysis of spatial patterns in ecology has been an ongoing area of research, the complexity of natural boundaries continues to hinder the incorporation of landscape pattern in ecology. However, the development of remote sensing, digital data processing, geographic information systems, spatially-distributed parameter models, and techniques for quantifying landscape pattern provide new opportunities to analyze natural systems over large geographic areas. This paper briefly outlines some of these developments in the context of the methods and tools needed to explicitly incorporate scale and spatial pattern in the analysis of natural systems.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6083703
• Report Number(s): CONF-8504316-1; ON: DE87009672
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

510100* -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Basic Studies-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ECOLOGY
ECOSYSTEMS
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
PATTERN RECOGNITION
REGIONAL ANALYSIS
REMOTE SENSING
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS