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environmental mapping  

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  • The process of collecting and visualizing spatially referenced data about our environment is referred to as environmental mapping. Environmental mapping does not refer only to an end product, such as a map of deforestation, but to the whole process of acquiring, preprocessing, storing/archiving, analyzing, and finally displaying information about our physical environment (Figure 1). [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Environmental Mapping]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-K7WK0KGX-4

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