Managing landscape and mire habitat data

Schönenberger P
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Schönenberger, P. (1994). Managing landscape and mire habitat data. In A. Grünig (Ed.), Mires and man. Mire conservation in a densely populated country - the Swiss experience. Excursion guide and symposium proceedings of the 5th field symposium of the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG) to Switzerland 1992 (pp. 112-117). Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research.
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There are two basic types of information in a Geographical Information System (GIS):
- Spatial or landscape data
- Descriptive or habitat data.
Spatial information describes the coordinates and perimeters of landscape data such as points, lines and areas. These are, for example, the shape and location of a raised bog, the perimeter of a lake or the shape of a street.
Spatial data are represented as different layers of a topographical map.
These layers can be overlaid to compose different topographical maps.
Descriptive information about features is stored by a relational database with different tables. This relational database contains detailed site information such as the name of a site, the importance of a site, a list of Sphagnum mosses and so on (Fig. 2.6.1).

Details
Publication Type

Proceedings Paper

Title

Managing landscape and mire habitat data

Author(s)

Schönenberger, Peter (WSL)

Conference Proceedings

Mires and man. Mire conservation in a densely populated country - the Swiss experience. Excursion guide and symposium proceedings of the 5th field symposium of the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG) to Switzerland 1992

Editor(s)

Grünig, Andreas (editor)

Publisher

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Publication Place

Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Start Page

112

End Page

117

Publication Year

1994

Conference

5th field symposium of the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG)

Conference Place

Birmensdorf

Conference Date

August 24 - September 6, 1992