Revisiting historical beech and oak forests in Indiana using a GIS method to recover information from bar charts
Historical GIS involves applying GIS to historical research. Using a unique method, I recovered historical tree survey information stored in bar chart figures of a 1956 publication. I converted PDF files to TIF files, which is a format for a GIS layer. I then employed GIS tools to measure lengths of...
Main Author: | Brice Hanberry |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2018-07-01
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Series: | PeerJ |
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/5158.pdf |
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