GIS Applications for Environmental Management

I am interested in the GIS application for Environmental Management, or more specifically Wildlife habitat management. This application would fall under the Natural Resources Industry.  The problems that can be addressed with this application are aiding in the determination of the amount, location, and varying degrees of habitat productivity, and how all these factors affect the population of the species involved.  Using the data provided from these applications managers can make decisions that will positively affect species population in the future. GIS is used in many ways in this application, from mapping habitat boundaries retrieved from GPS units to tracking an individual animal’s movement with the use of remote sensing, to name just a few. I am interested in this application because I enjoy the outdoors and all the plants and animals found there.  Earth has a limited number of resources and we need to be good stewards of these resources.   As a grandfather, I also believe we owe future generations the same or better opportunities to experience these things that we now enjoy.  I would like to learn more about remote sensing to better determine habitat ranges of certain species.  Animals behave more naturally when they have little or no interaction with humans, so I believe remote sensing is the best way to observe without influencing behavior.   

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