DATA VISUALIZATION FOR DECISION SUPPORT IN ENVIRONMENTAL-MANAGEMENT

Today, environmental managers increasingly rely on advances in remote sensing, computer mapping, geographic information systems and quantitative modeling. These modem technologies have greatly increased the quantity and quality of data available to characterize existing and projected environmental conditions. However these data can be very abstract. The connection between data and the environmental conditions they represent is critical as the goal of environmental management is to achieve desired ends in the environment, even if decisions are largely based on data.