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The development of Geomatics in recent years has been revolutionized by rapid advances in computer hardware and software. Geomatics has been successfully applied in biodiversity assessment, wetland mapping, drylands degradation assessment, measurements of land surface and marine attribute, and many other applications. Geomatics technologies benefit the ecosystem assessment and management process at all stages, including data collection, data management, data analysis and modeling, and presentation of results. The chapter conducts a review of the Geomatics technologies and their application in a practical framework for ecosystem assessment and management.
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The authors would like to thank International Science and Technology Cooperation Program of China (2012DFA11270) and Hainan International Cooperation Key Project (GJXM201105) for the support given to the study.
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Han, Rb., Cao, Jk., Ma, SQ. (2014). Geomatics in Ecosystem Assessment and Management. In: Cao, BY., Ma, SQ., Cao, Hh. (eds) Ecosystem Assessment and Fuzzy Systems Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 254. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03449-2_2
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