The huge growth in the use of geographic information systems, remote sensing
platforms and spatial databases have made accurate spatial data more available
for ecological and environmental models. Unfortunately, there has been too
little analysis of the appropriate use of this data and the role of uncertainty
in resulting ecological models. This is the first book to take an ecological
perspective on uncertainty in spatial data. It applies principles and techniques
from geography and other disciplines to ecological research. It brings the tools
of cartography, cognition, spatial statistics, remote sensing and computer
sciences to the ecologist using spatial data. After describing the uses of
spatial data in ecological