Wilderness monitoring and data management
Environmental Software
By: A. R. Riebau
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Abstract
In the last decade, increased public interest in natural areas has resulted in increased monitoring activity by federal wilderness managers to assess the status of wilderness values. Wilderness values are those large-scale entities of wilderness which comprise, in sum, wilderness character. Data collected through wilderness monitoring must support the maintenance of wilderness values. Wilderness monitoring must include the development of clear data management strategies and provisions for hypothesis testing. Unfortunately, some monitoring programs do not support the status assessment of wilderness values. Often wilderness monitoring programs have neglected even the most rudimentary principles of data management. This paper presents a model for wilderness monitoring, guidelines for data management, and an overview of a PC-compatible wilderness monitoring data base, the Monitoring Information Data Analysis System (MIDAS).
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Riebau, A.R., 1994, Wilderness monitoring and data management: Environmental Software, v. 9, no. 4, p. 227-232, https://doi.org/10.1016/0266-9838(94)90021-3.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Wilderness monitoring and data management |
| Series title | Environmental Software |
| DOI | 10.1016/0266-9838(94)90021-3 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Year Published | 1994 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier Science Ltd. |
| Publisher location | Oxford |
| Description | 6 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Environmental Software |
| First page | 227 |
| Last page | 232 |