Spatial Analysis of Coastal Environments

This book covers the spatial analytical tools needed to map, monitor and explain or predict coastal features, with accompanying online exercises.

Sarah M. Hamylton (Author)

9781107070479, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 April 2017

306 pages, 88 b/w illus. 48 colour illus. 30 tables
25.3 x 19.4 x 2 cm, 0.93 kg

'The text is accessible and well-written, and the chapters are well-structured. … I believe that the strongest selling point of this book is that Hamylton covers critical concepts that are all too often disregarded in other publications. The author does not present spatial analysis as a panacea and acknowledges the limitations of the approaches that are presented. … In conclusion, I would recommend Spatial Analysis of Coastal Environment for its scope and breadth (i.e., basic geographical analyses, mapping, monitoring, and explanatory and predictive modeling), well-defined terminology, multidisciplinary perspective, and treatment of concepts like spatial scale, data quality, and communication.' Vincent Lecours, Frontiers of Biogeography

At the convergence of the land and sea, coastal environments are some of the most dynamic and populated places on Earth. This book explains how the many varied forms of spatial analysis, including mapping, monitoring and modelling, can be applied to a range of coastal environments such as estuaries, mangroves, seagrass beds and coral reefs. Presenting empirical geographical approaches to modelling, which draw on recent developments in remote sensing technology, geographical information science and spatial statistics, it provides the analytical tools to map, monitor and explain or predict coastal features. With detailed case studies and accompanying online practical exercises, it is an ideal resource for undergraduate courses in spatial science. Taking a broad view of spatial analysis and covering basic and advanced analytical areas such as spatial data and geostatistics, it is also a useful reference for ecologists, geomorphologists, geographers and modellers interested in understanding coastal environments.

Foreword
Preface
1. The application of spatial analysis to coastal environments
2. The nature of spatial data
3. Basic geographical analysis with spatial information in coastal environments
4. Mapping coastal environments
5. Monitoring coastal environments
6. Geostatistical analysis of coastal environments
7. Modelling coastal environments
8. Addressing uncertainty in the spatial analysis of coastal environments
9. Communicating and incorporating the results of spatial analysis successfully
Glossary
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Geographical information systems [GIS & remote sensing RGW], Oceanography [seas RBKC], Earth sciences [RB]