Final Considerations
Authored By: F. H. Koch, W. D. Smith
One of the goals of this synthesis was to provide examples that would stimulate discussion and the interest of other researchers in looking for ways to represent human-mediated pathways in forest pest risk mapping efforts. Although there is widespread awareness that humans contribute to the spread of non-native pests, there has not been much attention paid to this issue in a spatial analysis context. This will hopefully change, yet some considerations are noted in the following sections for researchers who decide to perform similar investigations.
Subsections found in Final Considerations
- Utility of Data Sets : There are basically three overriding issues with respect to these data sets: attribute resolution, spatial scale, and imperfect representation of the pathway-related variable of interest.
- Availability and Accessibility : Many of the data sets described here are free or can be purchased for a small fee.
- Areas of Future Research : Additional data sets are continually sought to represent human-mediated pathways in forest pest risk maps, and such a large data mining task would clearly benefit from the contributions of additional researchers and analysts.
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