Analyzing and Aggregating Visitor Tracks in a Protected Area

In recent decades, recreational use of natural areas has grown rapidly from lowintensity and relatively passive use to a situation where tourism is the dominant force driving change in many rural areas and their associated communities (Butler et al., 1998). However, excessive use of natural areas ca...

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Published inQuality Aspects in Spatial Data Mining pp. 285 - 302
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom CRC Press 2009
Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
Agriculture & related industries
Geochemistry
Tech Groups
Gps Fix
Paper Booklet
Dune Park
Superimposed
Spatial Behavior
Sea Holly
Geographic Information Retrieval System
Nagelkerke R2
PDA
Geospatial Lifelines
Gps Track
Digitized Path
Box Plot
LBS
Gps Receiver
Digital Info
Test Group Subjects
Path Segments
IST
FCT
Handheld
Linear Reference
Moving Point Objects
Indirect Negative Impacts
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ISBN1420069268
9781420069266
DOI10.1201/9781420069273-28

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Summary:In recent decades, recreational use of natural areas has grown rapidly from lowintensity and relatively passive use to a situation where tourism is the dominant force driving change in many rural areas and their associated communities (Butler et al., 1998). However, excessive use of natural areas can have significant direct and indirect negative impacts. These include both environmental degradation (Farrell and Marion, 2001) and diminishing quality of the visitors’ recreational experience (Lynn20.1 Introduction ...265 20.1.1 Motivation and Context ...265
ISBN:1420069268
9781420069266
DOI:10.1201/9781420069273-28