Subject: Idrissi Workbbok series
UNITAR Workbook Series








Explorations
in Geographic Information Systems Technology: A Workbook Series
Developed by
the Clark Labs. Published by UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training
and Research)
Each workbook includes two sections:
1. a review paper that explores the use of GIS analytical techniques
in the defined field of study, complete with extensive bibliography
2. a set of exercises that allows the user to apply these techniques
to geographically diverse case study problems using real digital data sets
and GIS software*
This series will be of interest to a wide audience, including resource
managers, researchers in each workbook's application area, educators, and
anyone interested in learning more about GIS.
* The exercises are written for use with the raster GIS software
IDRISI (DOS or Windows), which is not included with the workbooks. Conversion
for use with other GIS software packages may be possible.

Volume
1: Change and Time Series Analysis, 2nd Edition
by J. Ronald Eastman, Jean McKendry and Michele Fulk
review paper by J. Ronald Eastman
This workbook covers the issues and problems involved in examining remotely-sensed
sequential images and illustrates analytical techniques for the differentiation
of meaningful change versus normal variation within the images, and characterizing
and quantifying change events.
Case Study Exercises Include:
- Pairwise Comparisons: Quantitative Data
simple differencing, thresholding, image regression and image ratioing
- Pairwise Comparisons: Qualitative Data
cross-tabulation using the Kappa Index of Agreement
- Multiple Comparisons: Quantitative Data
principal components analysis, time sequencing and time profiling
- Change Vector Analysis
spatial registration and change vector extraction

Volume
2: Applications in Forestry
by Jean McKendry, J. Ronald Eastman, Kevin St. Martin, and Michele
Fulk
review paper by Jean McKendry and J. Ronald Eastman
This workbook explores the role of GIS in forest management and resource
assessment. The purpose is to provide foresters and other natural resource
managers who have already had an introductory level course in GIS with
the means to gain a strong appreciation for the application of GIS to forestry
concerns.
Case Study Exercises Include:
- General forest management and GIS: Locating optimal harvest areas
- Habitat analysis in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, Canada
- Mapping suitable locations for reforestation: eucalyptus in Africa
- Gypsy moth defoliation of forests in northeastern North America
- Forest management: Getting the trees to the mill
- Analyzing deforestation and soil loss in northern Thailand
- Monitoring land use in Rondônia, Brazil using AVHRR and TM imagery

Volume
3: Applications in Coastal Zone Research and Management
edited by Kevin St. Martin; review paper by Darius Bartlett
This workbook explores the role GIS may play in coastal zone research
and management. Growing pressures due to development and pollution have
made environmental assessment and management a new priority in coastal
zone research. GIS is a powerful addition to the tools used to address
these issues.
Case Study Exercises Include :
- Shrimp habitat inventory, Florida, USA
- Aquaculture suitability analysis, Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica
- Eelgrass mapping from low-altitude aerial video imagery, Massachusetts,
USA
- Modeling sea level rise and the effects of database error, Rhode Island,
USA
- Bathymetric modeling from satellite imagery, Dominican Republic
- Change analysis using satellite imagery, Dominican Republic
- Quantifying beach sand erosion and deposition, Adelaide, Australia
- Viewshed analysis, Spain

Volume
4: GIS and Decision Making
by J. Ronald Eastman, Peter A.K. Kyem, James Toledano, and Weigen Jin
This workbook explores techniques for environmental decision making
using GIS, with special reference to the problems introduced by uncertainty
in both the database and decision rule models. Unlike other workbooks in
the series, the review paper and exercises are merged into a unified exploration.
In addition to the exercise datasets, the workbook is also distributed
with a set of IDRISI specialized analytical routines for implementation
of Bayesian Probability analysis, Fuzzy Set theory, Multi-Criteria Evaluation
and Multi-Objective Land Allocation.
Case Study Exercises Include :
- Risk analysis -- global warming sea level rise, Boston, Massachusetts,
USA
- Error evaluation, Bagmati Zone, Nepal
- Constraint mapping, Bagmati Zone, Nepal
- Multi-criteria evaluation, Nakuru, Kenya
- Multi-objective land allocation, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Volume
5: GIS and Mountain Environments
edited by Kristin Schneider and Paul Robbins
review paper by Ian Heywood, James Petch, and Martin Price
This workbook will explore the unique considerations that mountain characteristics
pose to a GIS user in any field who works within a mountain environment.
This volume deals with issues of representation and interpretation of a
3-dimensional space in two dimensions and the impact of such representations
on the data derived from such. Ultimately, the impact of mountain characteristics
on planning is raised.
Case Study Exercises Include :
- Modeling mountain characteristics in raster and vector, and interpreting
information derived from each model
- Querying land use, elevation and aspect relationships, Dhulikel Watershed,
Nepal
- Classification of satellite imagery, Bennington, Vermont, USA, and
Dhading District, Nepal
- Cost-distance modeling of access to health care, Dhading District,
Nepal
- Modeling the impact of mountains on regional climates, Puna Atacama,
Chile
- Predicting the distribution of ecological units, Pyrenees, Spain

Volume
6: Applications in Hazard Assessment and Management
edited by Srinivas Emani ; review paper by Srinivas Emani
This workbook will explore the role of GIS in identifying, assessing,
and managing both natural and technological hazards.
Case Study Exercises Include :
- Mapping and assessing natural hazards, Ecuador
- Assessing socioeconomic vulnerability to extreme storms and associated
flooding, Revere, Massachusetts, USA
- Assessing vulnerability of the Gulf Coast, USA, to erosion and inundation
- Risk modeling for hazardous materials transportation, Worcester, Massachusetts,
USA
- Nonpoint source pollution modeling, Timber Creek Watershed, Texas,
USA
- Using remote sensing to assess the midwest flood of 1993, Missouri,
USA
- Time series analysis as an early warning tool for disaster mitigation,
Africa

Compatible with the DOS version of IDRISI : All volumes
currently available.
Compatible with IDRISI for Windows : Volumes 1-4 currently
available, volumes 5 and 6 available August 1996.
Workbooks may be obtained from the IDRISI Project.
Price of each Workbook: $75 Plus Shipping.
