Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-76).

This thesis traces the acquisition and potential applications of 35 mm aerial photography as a tool in helping to make decisions in the allocation of land to forest recreation. The advantages of the 35 mm aerial system, including its versatility, simplicity, applicability, and relatively low cost, were tested and applied to the field of forest and wildland recreation. Dealing first with the technology and equipment available, methods of acquiring the imagery were investigated, experimented with, and adopted. Then, working with the results of eleven hours of flying time, photogrammetric and photointerpretive techniques were applied to the reflected attributes of the physiographic, edaphic, hydrologic, and vegetative environments. In addition, the use of the system was investigated for recording recreational use on existing sites. The 35 mm aerial system can help identify those attributes of the land important to forest recreation. In addition it has benefit in the closely related fields of archaeology, protection, and wildlife and in evaluating hazard potential. Used in conjunction with either the small scale imagery soon becoming available through the Earth Resources Technology Satellite Program or existing air photos, the 35 mm system can accurately capture and monitor changes in the natural and artificial environments at a relatively low cost and assist the forest manager in decisions relating to the allocation of forest land to recreational use. / Forestry, Faculty of / Graduate

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Helsinki. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-93).

Architecture is an act of agency, and a technology that can be learned by anyone for their own purpose. It evolved as a system of organization and a protective shell for our fragile bodies, a vast, complex technology that enables human survival. Yet despite its universal nature, we have artificially limited our control over it, and who has access to it; we limit its potentials, its adaptive capacities, its diversity, and our continued survival. Walled-up in universities, behind certifications and dissertations, we have removed architecture from the public’s mind so that few understand it and use it. The city, in its surging complexity, is ever more opaque; the systems, infrastructure, and regulations that govern its formation are hidden from view, behind doors, walls, and fences. Hack seeks to make the city legible and architecture accessible, by leveraging a growing tide of hacker culture, and its subcultures – makers and DIY drone enthusiasts – and their respective technologies. Since the birth of the computer, Hackers have sought to democratize information technology held by military, government, and corporate interests. In doing so they’ve provided a number of methods, that enable free sharing and collaboration between individuals, distributing problem-solving practices, open-source systems, hands-on education, and free access to tools, all applicable to the challenges and opportunities facing architecture and city building today. Hack bootstraps itself to these ideals with hands-on experiments and reflections on those experiments, reframing architecture as a basic skill, a technology to be used by anyone, democratizing architecture through online communities, and the Hacker culture, in order to define a new active role for the architect. Internalizing the Hacker Ethic, and appropriate existing technologies to build new tools – devices to survey space, architecture and the city. – Hack traces the construction of a kite, a model car, a quadrocopter, and a remote-control airplane, each capable of gathering intimate information about the local environment. Hack concludes by reexamining the role of the aerial view in making cities and exercising power, speculating on the potential to level the fields of perception through online co-operation and these small-scale cartographic technologies.

Thesis (doctoral)--Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2001. / Appendix includes reprints of five papers and manuscripts, four co-authored with others. Includes bibliographical references. Also partially issued electronically via World Wide Web in PDF format; online version lacks appendix

Interpretation of large-scale color infrared and color aerial photography can be a labor and cost-effective means for inventorying and monitoring rangelands while maintaining accuracy. Ground measurements of vegetation cover at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument were taken in 1975 and 1984. Large-scale (1:1200) color and color infrared aerial photo estimates were compared to these ground measurements through regression and correlation to check photo accuracy. Relationships between photo estimates and ground measurements of total vegetation and shrub cover were strong when using either film type. Color infrared photo estimates corresponded better with ground measurements for both tree cover and cactus cover than color photo estimates. Large-scale aerial photography is also useful for determining some of the causes of vegetation change. Evidence gathered from both sets of photos suggested that vegetation change at OPCNM was largely the result of domestic livestock removal and short-term climatic fluctuations.

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