Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring: Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring

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Title:: Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring

Sub title:: techniques and impacts ; September 17 - 21, 1990, Victoria Conference Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Year of publication:: 1990

Place of publication:: Victoria, BC

Publisher of the original:: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]

Identifier (digital):: 856665355

Language:: English

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Persistent identifier:: 856669164

Title:: Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring

Sub title:: techniques and impacts; September 17 - 21, 1990, Victoria Conference Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Scope:: XIV, 912 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1990

Place of publication:: Victoria, BC

Publisher of the original:: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]

Identifier (digital):: 856669164

Illustration:: Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten

Signature of the source:: ZS 312(28,7,1)

Language:: English

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

Editor:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Commission of Photographic and Remote Sensing Data

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:: Volume

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: [WA-4 GLOBAL MONITORING (2)]

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Title:: REMOTE SENSING, AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY FOR RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. Karel Vanturennout, Ross Rose

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235 REMOTE SENSING, AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY FOR RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT Karel Vanturennout, Ross Rose MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. Richmond, British Columbia, Canada V6V 2J3 ISPRS Commission VII Abstract In recent years mankind has become increasingly aware of the need to integrate economic development policy with resource and environmental management policy, so that the economic development can be sustained. To accomplish this integration at the policy levels, one needs accurate and current information about the state of development, resources and environment, scientific knowledge of the dynamic relationships between the various information types, and the ability to apply this knowledge to the changing information through dynamic modelling techniques. The results of this continuous process will then form the basis for devising and updating policies. Achieving such a direct relationship between status changes, science and policy requires a comprehensive earth information technology which on the one hand includes the collection, normalization, reduction and storage of vast amounts of spatially oriented information, and on the other hand the capability to view, correlate, model and disseminate this information in support of the policy decision making process. This process can be depicted as an Earth Information Lifecycle and is shown below in Figure 1. DATA NORMALIZATION VIEWING INFORMATION COLLECTION AND STORAGE CORRELATION DISSEMINATION REDUCTION MODELLING Figure 1 Earth Information Lifecycle Over the past decades, significant technological advances have been accomplished across all phases of the Earth Information lifecycle. Some of the most dramatic advances have occurred in the field of remote sensing which involves the acquisition of detailed measurements of various properties of the earth from remotely located sensor device. Remotely sensed imagery has now become an important Earth Information data source. Through integration of current technologies it is now feasible to construct effective smaller scale policy decision support infrastructures (e.g., at the national level). Further advances in the coming years will allow these decision support infrastructures to become increasingly cost effective at larger scales (i.e., at the regional and local levels). This paper focuses primarily on the information gathering and storage portions of the Earth Information lifecycle. It examines how changes expected to take place over the next five years will make remote sensing an increasingly suitable technology to address the problems associated with gathering the information required to effectively manage the earth's resources and environment for all levels of society.

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