ABSTRACT
The ecologically and economically sustainable management of landscapes is one of the most pressing issues facing individuals, communities, and governments. Spatial data, and both spatial analysis and environmental modelling linked with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) will be important tools in these management processes. Success in address ing land management issues also requires integration of technological and methodological approaches to geographic data with understanding of biophysical and socio-economic processes in the landscape across many spatial and temporal scales. There are also op portunities to enhance the value of spatial data through spatial analysis, taking account of pattern, texture, and geographic relationships. The outputs of analysis may be complex and difficult to represent with clarity and simplicity; computational advances create an opportunity for dynamic visualization of spatial processes and temporal effects in a form that the human brain is readily able to assimilate.
