ESRI电子图书 - Environmental Management - GIS Best Practices.pdf

GIS Best Practices Environmental Management October 2010 Table of Contents What Is GIS? 1 GIS for Environmental Management 3 Panama Environmental Authority Uses GIS for Planning and Public Outreach 5 Woods Hole Research Center Measures Carbon Footprints in U.S. Forests with GIS 7 Emerald Isles Coastal Contingency Plan 13 Water Resource Community Streamlines Environmental Decision Making 19 Climate Wizard Delivers Climate Change Data and Models for Trend Analysis 23 Keeping Nature and Man in Balance 27 i What Is GIS? Making decisions based on geography is basic to human thinking. Where shall we go, what will it be like, and what shall we do when we get there are applied to the simple event of going to the store or to the major event of launching a bathysphere into the oceans depths. By understanding geography and peoples relationship to location, we can make informed decisions about the way we live on our planet. A geographic information system (GIS) is a technological tool for comprehending geography and making intelligent decisions. GIS organizes geographic data so