"This book will present new research regarding the interdisciplinary applications of spatial information sciences for identification, assessment, monitoring, and modeling issues related to natural resources and environmental management. It will focus on the creation, collection, storage, processing,
Geospatial Techniques for Managing Environmental Resources
โ Scribed by Chaowei Yang, Yan Xu, Daniel Fay (auth.), Jay Krishna Thakur, Sudhir Kumar Singh, AL. Ramanathan, M. Bala Krishna Prasad, Wolfgang Gossel (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 308
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
"Geospatial Information" is spatial data concerning a place or, in space, collected in real time. Geospatial techniques together with remote sensing, geographic information science, Global Positioning System (GPS), cartography, geovisualization, and spatial statistics are being used to capture, store, manipulate and analyze to understand complex situations to solve mysteries of the universe. These techniques have been applied in various fields such as meteorology, forestry, environmental management, agriculture, health, homeland security etc. around the globe. This volume presents case studies and examples from various parts of the world and provides a broad overview of various approaches; data sets; data acquiring, monitoring and dissemination methods; satellites and sensors; tools and techniques used; integrating tools, techniques and application to various fields for the sustainable management of environmental resources in the context of global environmental change and natural hazards. The objective of this book is to provide state-of-the-art information to academics, researchers and industry practitioners who are involved or interested in the study, use, design and development of advanced and emerging geospatial technologies around the world with ultimate aim to empower individuals and organizations in building competencies for exploiting the opportunities of the knowledge society. All the chapters are peer-reviewes and evaluated and are an inter- and multi-disciplinary source of information, making an effort to link various geospatial techniques to make the earth an habitable place. The contributors have tried to focus their respective views on the current problems that need urgent attention. Consequently, we see this book as a comprehensive information base, which includes work of expertise in their specific fields of research.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Environmental Informatics: Advancing Data Intensive Sciences to Solve Environmental Problems....Pages 1-14
Hierarchical Geospatial Computing Environment for Data-intensive Geographic Process Simulation....Pages 15-32
Integration of Geographic Information Systems for Monitoring and Dissemination of Marine Environment Data....Pages 33-52
Estimation of Evapotranspiration from Wetlands Using Geospatial and Hydrometeorological Data....Pages 53-67
Climbing the Water Ladder โ The New GIS Approach....Pages 68-85
Supraglacial Lake Classification in the Everest Region of Nepal Himalaya....Pages 86-99
Towards the Improvement of Water Resource Management by Combining Technologies for Spatial Data Collection, Storage, Analysis and Dissemination....Pages 100-118
Geomorphologic Risk Modelling of the Sibiu Depression Using Geospatial Surface Analyses....Pages 119-138
Geospatial Technique to Study Forest Cover Using ALOS/PALSAR Data....Pages 139-151
Assessment of Land Use/Land Cover Using Geospatial Techniques in a Semi-arid Region of Madhya Pradesh, India....Pages 152-163
The Environmental Calculator: A Tool for the Efficient Assessment of Environmental Services Loss due to Deforestation....Pages 164-187
Urban Tree Detection Using Mobile Laser Scanning Data....Pages 188-200
Multisensor Fusion of Remote Sensing Data for Crop Disease Detection....Pages 201-219
Geospatial Analysis of Cancer Cases in the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey....Pages 220-237
GIS for the Determination of Bioenergy Potential in the Centre Region of Portugal....Pages 238-255
Use of Geospatial Data in Planning for Offshore Wind Development....Pages 256-275
Social Vulnerability Assessment through GIS Techniques: A Case Study of Flood Risk Mapping in Mexico....Pages 276-291
Back Matter....Pages 293-296
โฆ Subjects
Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry; Physical Geography; Environmental Management
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