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Geospatial Tools and Techniques

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Environmental Project Management

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Throughout part III of the book, geospatial methods are used to provide analysis of project activities and their effect on the environment. Its use is informed by two main factors. First, environmental issues occur in space and as such are location or area-based, i.e., geographical in nature.

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

—Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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    In a speech prepared for the California Science Center in Los Angeles on January 31, 1998, Gore described a digital future where school children—indeed all the world’s citizens—could interact with a computer-generated three-dimensional spinning virtual globe and access vast amounts of scientific and cultural information to help them understand the Earth and its human activities.

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    http://www.earth.google.com.

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    Ratified on September 12, 2009 at the 6th international symposium on digital earth in Beijing, Peoples Republic of China.

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  1. Petroleum Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia

    Ebenezer A. Sholarin

  2. Spatial Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia

    Joseph L. Awange

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Sholarin, E.A., Awange, J.L. (2015). Geospatial Tools and Techniques. In: Environmental Project Management. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27651-9_8

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