The front cover a topographic image derived for airborne lidar data, two days affer the massive Oso landslide (March 2014, in Washington State). With more than forty deaths and nearly fiffy homes destroyed, this event ranks among the deadliest kandslides in U.S. history. Lidar (light detection and ranging, Chapter 6) is an active remote sensing technique that ivolves transmitting pulses of l…
The second edition of the bestselling Practical Handbook for Wetland Identification and Delineation offers solutions to real-world problems in the scientific and regulatory aspects of wetlands. The authors present characteristics and indicators of wetlands that are the focus of the jurisdictional issue, and discuss strategies and methods for making wetland identifications and delineations that …