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Science and Engineering at The University of Edinburgh

School of GeoSciences

Institute of Geography

Section Contents

Environmental Modelling and Monitoring

(including Geographical Information Science and Remote Sensing)

A Selection of Recent Publications

Furley, P.A. (1997) The influence of slope on the nature and distribution of soils and plant communities in the central Brazilian cerrado. In M.G. Anderson and S.M. Brooks (eds.), Advances in Hillslope Processes, Wiley, 327-346.

Furley, P.A. (1998) History and destiny of Middle American forests: the inheritors of the Mayan landscape. In B. Maloney (ed.), Human activities and the tropical rain forest, Kluwer, Netherlands, 101-132.

Newton, A.J., Gittings, B.M., Stuart, N. (1997) Designing a scientific database query server using the World-Wide Web: the example of Tephrabase. In Z. Kemp, Innovations in GIS, Vol. 4. Taylor and Francis, 251-266.

Mackaness, W.A. Automated cartography and the human paradigm. In: C. Wood, (ed.), Cartographic Design: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. John Wiley and Sons. (in press).

Malthus, T.J. (1998) An introduction to underwater light processes. In: A..P. Cracknell, E.S. Rowan, (eds.), Physical processes in the coastal zone: computer modelling and remote sensing. SUSSP/Institute of Physics, 223-247.

Pickerill, J.M., Malthus, T.J. (1998) Leak detection from rural aqueducts using airborne remote sensing techniques. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19, 2427-2433.

Shaw, D.T., Malthus, T.J., Kupiec, J.A. (1998) High spectral resolution data for monitoring Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) regeneration. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19:2601-2608.

May, L., Place, C. J. and George, D.G. (1997) Estimating the phosphorus load to surface waters from septic tanks in rural catchment. Diffuse Pollution II, Conference Proceedings (April 1997), 212-216.

Dragosits U., Sutton M. A., Place C.J., Bayley A.A. (1998) Modelling the spatial distribution of ammonia emissions in the UK. Environmental Pollution, 102 (S1), 195 - 203.

Jarvis, C.H., Baker, R., and Stuart, N. (1999) To interpolate and then to model, or vice-versa? In B.M. Gittings (ed.), Geographic Information: Infrastructures & Technologies. Taylor & Francis, London, 18, 229-242.

Peter, C., and Stuart, N. (1999) Modelling floodplain inundation in space and time. In B.M. Gittings (ed.), Geographic Information: Infrastructures and Technologies. Taylor & Francis, London, 20, 255-270.

Sugumaran, R., Place, C.J., Furley, P.A. and Swaminath, M.H. (1998) Artificial neural network classifier for forest land cover classification using Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1C) image. GIS Planet 98 Conference, 7-11 Sept. 1998, Lisbon, Portugal. On CD-Rom.

Woodhouse, I.H., van der Sanden, J. J., and Hoekman, D.H. (1999) Scatterometer observations of seasonal backscatter variation over tropical rainforest, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 37, (2).

Woodhouse, I.H. and Hoekman, D.H. (2000) Determining land surface parameters from the ERS-Windscatterometer, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, (forthcoming).

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