Fieldwork Skills: Collecting, Representing and Interpreting Primary Land Cover Data

What this note covers

1. Planning a Geographic Field Study of Land Cover Change
2. Primary Data Collection Methods: Quadrats and Transects
3. Photographic Records and Land Use Mapping
4. Data Representation Techniques for Land Cover Data
5. Interpreting Primary Land Cover Data: Patterns, Processes and Anomalies
6. Geographic Conventions for Communicating Fieldwork Findings
7. Evaluating Fieldwork: Reliability, Validity and Ethical Considerations

7 sections · 14 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes