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Satellite Monitoring of Coastal Marine Ecosystems: A Case from the Dominican Republic

Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) initiated a series of nine human dimensions of global change pilot projects in 1991, to better understand how physical, biological, and social scientists must interact in order to address problems of importance to decision -makers. There is also a need to develop methodologies for merging data sets which differ on spatial and temporal scales, and indeed, to ascertain whether or not data are generally available to address specific, highly complex earth and social science. Because there has been virtually no research on the use of remotely sensed data in the social sciences of global change, this is a component of each pilot project. Pilot projects need to show how the results would be transferred to decision makers. All these elements of the pilots are to be used to inform the design of the CIESIN Data and Research Center. One of the CIESIN human dimensions of global change pilot projects is situated on the north coast of the Dominican Republic in Buen Hombre.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/272833
Date12 1900
CreatorsStoffle, Richard W., Halmo, David
ContributorsUniversity of Arizona, Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, University of Michigan, East Carolina University
PublisherUniversity of Arizona
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeReport
SourceUniversity of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections

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