Global Changes and Natural Disaster Management: Geo-information Technologies

✍ Scribed by Saied Pirasteh, Jonathan Li (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 229
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents ongoing research and ideas related to earth observations and global change, natural hazards and disaster management studies, with respect to geospatial information technology, remote sensing, and global navigation satellite systems. Readers will discover uses of advanced geospatial tools, spatiotemporal models, and earth observation systems. Chapters identify the international aspects of the coupled social, land and climate systems in global change studies, and consider such global challenges as agriculture monitoring, the smart city, and risk assessment.

The work presented here has been carefully selected, edited, and peer reviewed in order to advance research and development, as well as to encourage innovative applications of Geomatics technologies in global change studies. The book will appeal not only to academicians, but also to professionals, politicians and decision makers who wish to learn from the very latest and most innovative, quality research in this area of global change and natural disaster management.

Contributions are drawn from revised submissions based on state-of-the-art papers from the 7th GiT4NDM - 5th EOGC, 2015 event.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Examining the Effect of Land Use on the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Urban Temperature in an Industrial City: A Landsat Imagery Analysis....Pages 3-15
The Study of Multi-temporal Analysis of Urban Development and Environmental Changes of the City of Abu Dhabi....Pages 17-32
CRF-Based Simultaneous Segmentation and Classification of High-Resolution Satellite Images....Pages 33-46
The Dynamic of Dike-Pond System in the Pearl River Delta During 1964–2012....Pages 47-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Effects of Irrigation and Nitrogen on Maize Growth and Yield Components....Pages 63-74
A Review of the Effects of Drought on the Grain Yield in the Vays, Mollasani, and Salamat Regions of the Khuzestan Province....Pages 75-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Communicating Disaster Risk Reduction Through Web-Map Applications....Pages 91-99
Mapping Sand Dune Fields in Abu Dhabi Emirate Over the Period of 1992–2013 Using Landsat Data....Pages 101-112
Spatiotemporal Analysis and Image Registration for Studying Growth of Transportation Infrastructure in Sharjah City, UAE....Pages 113-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Sea Level Rise on the Coastal Plain of Al Batinah, Sultanate of Oman....Pages 125-130
Climate Change and Insecurity: An Examination of Gombe State’s Predicament in the Northeastern Nigeria....Pages 131-139
Climate Change and Forced Migration from Ngala and Kala-Balge LGAs, N.E. Borno State, Nigeria....Pages 141-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Detection of Areas Associated with Flash Floods and Erosion Caused by Rainfall Storm Using Topographic Attributes, Hydrologic Indices, and GIS....Pages 155-174
Collapse Assessment of Substandard Concrete Structures for Seismic Loss Estimation of the Building Inventory in the UAE....Pages 175-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Status of Spatial Analysis for Urban Emergency Management....Pages 191-209
Experimental Study of the Mechanics of Gypsum Seam Hazard for Abu Dhabi....Pages 211-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-228

✦ Subjects

Natural Hazards;Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry;Geophysics/Geodesy;Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences