Geospatial Analytics for Park & Protected Land Visitor Reservation Data

摘要: Reservation databases utilized by parks and protected lands (PPLs) are a source of empirical data that holds wealth spatiotemporal information about both destination usage (from the supply side) visitor characteristics (the demand population). Unfortunately, PPL reservation rarely explored with these goals in mind. Geovisualizations can be used to identify longitudinal patterns, trends relationships help managers generate knowledge useful decision support. To demonstrate gained through geospatial analytics data, 12.5 million records from recreation.gov database between January 1, 2007 December 30, 2015 examined. The includes 3272 distinct destinations provided camping, permitting or ticketing on U.S. Federal PPLs. This chapter discusses value of, methodology for, inductively exploring geovisualization. Efforts such as those described this provide support Federal, State County agencies tasked tourism resource management.