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Steve Carver

Steve is a geographer with an interest in application of GIS to wilderness and wild landscapes. He is particularly interested in quality assessment, public participation and visibility analyses. He has worked widely on these topics in the UK, Europe and North America. He is Director of the Wildland Research Institute, and is based in the School of Geography, University of Leeds.

Steffen Fritz

Steffen is Head of the Earth Observation Systems group in the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at IIASA. Steffen is the main driver behind Geo-Wiki and is currently researching different incentive schemes for crowdsourcing of land cover in Kenya, Tanzania and Austria through the European Research Council funded project called CrowdLand. His PhD was on wilderness mapping under the supervision of Steve Carver.

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This volume gives a comprehensive overview of wilderness mapping, and in doingso covers the conceptual and philosophical foundations, techniques andmethodological approaches, and applications at a variety of spatial scales.

The Editorshave brought together a range of contributors who are both experts in theirfield and cutting-edge thinkers in the wilderness and spatial mapping domain.  Spatial information technology and mappingscience is a rapidly expanding and a developing field and so it is expected tobe able to add to this volume in the future.

This bookprovides a record of the "state of the art" and will enable thereader to follow this lead and map his/her own wilderness.