Geospatial Techniques for Managing Environmental Resources
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Environmental informatics: advancing data intensive sciences to solve environmental problems/Chaowei Yang. Yan Xu and Daniel Fay. 2. Hierarchical geospatial computing environment for data-intensive geographic process simulation/Mingyuan Hu, Hui Lin, Bingli Xu, Ya Hu, Sammy Tang and Weitao Che. 3. Integration of geographic information systems for monitoring and dissemination of marine environment data/Marcin Kulawiak and Marek Moszynski. 4. Estimation of evapotranspiration from wetlands using geospatial and hydrometeorological data/Jay Krishna Thakur, P.K. Srivastava, Arun Kumar Pratihast and Sudhir Kumar Singh. 5. Climbing the water ladder--the new GIS approach/Amos Kabo-bah and Kamila Lis. 6. Supraglacial lake classification in the Everest region of Nepal Himalaya/Prajjwal K. Panday, Henry Bulley, Umesh Haritashya and Bardan Ghimire. 7. Towards the improvement of water resource management by combining technologies for spatial data collection, storage, analysis and dissemination/Nafaa Jabeur and James D. McCarthy. 8. Geomorphologic risk modelling of the Sibiu depression using geospatial surface analyses/Marioara Costea, Roxama Giusca and Rodica Ciobanu. 9. Geospatial technique to study forest cover using ALOS/PALSAR data/Ram Avtar, Jay Krishna Thakur, Amit Kumar Mishra and Pankaj Kumar. 10. Assessment of land use/land cover using geospatial techniques in a semi-arid region of Madhya Pradesh, India/Prafull Singh, Jay Krishna Thakur, Suyash Kumar and U.C. Singh. 11. The environmental calculator: a tool for the efficient assessment of environmental services loss due to deforestation/Miguel Martinez Tapia, Xanat Antonio Nemiga and Jose Isabel Juan Perez. 12. Urban tree detection using mobile laser scanning data/Arun Kumar Pratihast and Jay Krishna Thakur. 13. Multisensor fusion of remote sensing data for crop disease detection/Dimitrios Moshou, Ioannis Gravalos, Dimitrios Kateris Cedric Bravo, Roberto Oberti, Jon S. West and Herman Ramon. 14. Geospatial analysis of cancer cases in the eastern black sea region of Turkey/Ebru H. Colak and Tahsin Yomralioglu. 15. GIS for the determination of bioenergy potential in the centre region of Portugal/Tanya C.J. Esteves, Pedro Cabral, Jose Carlos Teixeira and Antonio J.D. Ferreira. 16. Use of geospatial data in planning for offshore wind development/John Madsen, Alison Bates, John Callahan and Jeremy Firestone. 17. Social vulnerability assessment through GIS techniques: a case study of flood risk mapping in Mexico/P. Krishna Krishnamurthy and L. Krishnamurthy. Index.
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 and 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 reviewed and evaluated and are in inter and multi disciplinary source of information, making an effort to link various geospatial techniques to make the earth a 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. (jacket)
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 and 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 reviewed and evaluated and are in inter and multi disciplinary source of information, making an effort to link various geospatial techniques to make the earth a 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. (jacket)
