Special UNISPACE III volume

Marsteller, Deborah

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Persistent identifier:: 856485039

Author:: Marsteller, Deborah

Title:: Special UNISPACE III volume

Sub title:: including: ISPRS Workshop on "Resource Mapping from Space", ISPRS-EARSeL Workshop on "Remote Sensing for the Detection, Monitoring and Mitigation of Natural Disasters", ISPRS-NASA Seminar on "Environment and Remote Sensing for Sustainable Development", July 1999, Vienna, Austria

Scope:: IV, 170 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1999

Place of publication:: Coventry

Publisher of the original:: RICS Books

Identifier (digital):: 856485039

Illustration:: Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten

Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: ISPRS Workshop on "Resource Mapping from Space"

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Title:: THE ROLE OF REMOTE SENSING IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. Andrew K. Skidmore

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4 International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXII Part 7C2, UNISPACE III, Vienna 1999 5 M84/C.2/L.2 UNISPACE III - ISPRS Workshop on ■ y Pi g BH “Resource Mapping from Space” 9:00 am-12:00 pm, 22 July 1999, VIC Room B ISbIi RS3 Vgÿgÿ? 7 Vienna, Austria f the world is regional levels racy. As more iods. THE ROLE OF REMOTE SENSING IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ional Oceanic possibility to Andrew K. Skidmore International Institute for Aerospace Survey PO Box 6 pled with the rements made cost-effective 7500 Enschede The Netherlands Email : skidmorefaitc.nl m increase in ABSTRACT ; taken by the (e.g. NOAA- it priority' for In the last 100 years, agriculture and forestry have developed from a resource economy based on access to land and labour, into activities where capital (ie. investment in equipment) dominate. In developed countries, land managers access capital to buy equipment in order to reduce costs and increase production, though poor access to capital lias constrained most farmers in less developed countries. Associated with the transition from resources to capital, prices have fallen, a global trend predicted 30 years ago by Drucker (1991). Today, the most rapidly growing segment of the economy is "information’; the question posed here is whether spatial information derived from remote sensing (and geographical information systems) can improve production, decrease costs, or reduce environmental degradation, for natural resource managers, in both developed and developing countries. A number of operational applications in rural areas using remote sensing have been developed by national and international agencies. These applications are generally at a regional scale, such as food early warning systems in the Sahel, tropical deforestation monitoring, liazard monitoring (eg. bush fires, or pests such as locusts or gypsy moth), vegetation mapping (crop, rangeland and forest), mapping and monitoring land degradation, weather forecasting, and even mapping farm cadastre (using photogrammetry'). At the local level, little use is made of remote sensing, though many commentators in the industry, research and government sectors see this as a major growth area for remote sensing and GIS. A number of new satellite remote sensing systems are being launched which may be of use at a local and regional scale for natural resource managers. These systems offer improvements in spatial, spectral, or temporal accuracy. High spatial resolution imageiy is planned to be available from satellites, and will directly compete with aerial photographs. High spectral resolution (liyperspectral) imagery offers images across a wider band width (ie. visible to short wave infrared) and the individual bands are narrower (less than 10 nm). In addition, imagery in the thermal infrared and microwave (radar) wavelengths is available. As more satellites are placed in orbit, imagery over a geographical location will be accessible at shorter time periods. New application fields are predicted to take advantage of these sensors; the potential of these new sensors for these applications will be explored. Finally, given the high growth rate of GIS, and the relatively poor uptake of remote sensing, the integration of these two technologies are explored. THE (SPATIAL) INFORMATION ECONOMY factories. Eventually, a third sector which produces services. increasingly dominates the labour market. In most developed There are three broad sectors of employment, being agriculture economies the service sector comprises over 70 per cent of (production of food), manufacturing or industrial (production of economic activity. Products from the service sector include goods in factories), and service industries. The agriculture telecommunication, teaching, research, medical care, sector dominates the economies of traditional societies, where administration and political services, art, tourism, advertising, the productivity of agricultural labour is low and virtually the retailing, architecture, software etc. whole population must be employed in farming. For example, at the beginning of the 18th century, 92 per cent of the work force Robinson (1982) suggests that the service sector of the worked on farms to feed the other 8 per cent (Britannica, 1989). economy should be subdivided into the information sector as As a country becomes able to feed itself, demand increases for well as the traditional service sector. The information sector manufactured goods such as clothes, shelter and books. For includes all jobs involved in manufacturing computers, as well example, by 1992, only 5.3 per cent of Australia's working as the production, processing, transmission, distribution and population remained employed in the agricultural sector selling of data, knowledge or information. The information (OECD, 1994) With industrialisation, production of sector is the dominant sector in the US economy (Figure 1 taken manufactured goods becomes more efficient and organised into from Robinson, 1982).

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