Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing

This book provides a unique insight into the research and recent developments undertaken among the African Remote Sensing community in regard to the environment.

Discover a modern approach to help mitigate threats to public safety in your community.

This book examines geographical names, place-names, and toponymy from philosophical and cultural evolutionary perspectives.

Advanced imaging spectral technology and hyperspectral analysis techniques for multiple applications are the key features of the book.

This volume presents a set of coherent, cross-referenced perspectives on incorporating the spatial representation and analytical power of GIS with agent-based modelling of evolutionary and non-linear processes and phenomena.

The creation, accumulation, and use of copious amounts of data are driving rapid change across a wide variety of industries and academic disciplines.

Geographical information systems (GIS) are powerful tools for reporting on the environment, natural resources and social and economic development; modelling the environmental, biophysical, social and economic processes; assessing environmental and social impacts; evaluating environmental, social and economic policies and actions and dissimilating spatial information.

Today, remote sensing technology is an essential tool for understanding the Earth and managing human-Earth interactions.

Volume III of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses water and watershed issues such as water quality, evapotranspiration, water resource management, and ecological services.

Big geospatial datasets created by large infrastructure projects require massive computing resources to process.

Recognizing that sound information is vital to the progress of conservation, IUCN have gathered together a visual portfolio of maps of rain forests in Africa.

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and their associated technologies have advanced by leaps and bounds in the nine years since the first edition of this book was published.

This book is an earnest effort in understanding the slums and their needs by taking a case study of Kalaburagi, India.

Applying new skills to established topics, this is how you want to examine human geography.

An updated guide to GNSS and INS, and solutions to real-world GPS/INS problems with Kalman filtering Written by recognized authorities in the field, this second edition of a landmark work provides engineers, computer scientists, and others with a working familiarity with the theory and contemporary applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Inertial Navigational Systems (INS), and Kalman filters.

Monitoring continuous phenomena by stationary and mobile sensors has become a common due to the improvement in hardware and communication infrastructure and decrease in it's cost.

Volume 1 of a two volume set, this book is a self-contained, state-of-the-art analysis of remote sensing, ground-based, and spatial techniques used for characterizing biomass burning events and pollution.

Remote Sensing and GIS in Peri-Urban Research: Perspectives on Global Change, Sustainability and Resilience, Eleventh Edition provides the most recent methods and techniques, incorporating geoinformatics-based practices to map, evaluate, and model urban landscape attributes and changes.

Through-the-wall radar imaging (TWRI) allows police, fire and rescue personnel, first responders, and defense forces to detect, identify, classify, and track the whereabouts of humans and moving objects.

This book is a collection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference of Military Geoscience that was held in 2011.

Hyperspectral Data Processing: Algorithm Design and Analysis is a culmination of the research conducted in the Remote Sensing Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (RSSIPL) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Urban Remote Sensing, Second Edition assembles a team of professional experts to provide a much-needed update on the applications of remote sensing technology to urban and suburban areas.

This book discusses the detrimental consequences of climate-related land changes over a 40-year period between 1981 and 2020, and focuses on how climate warming is deteriorating the agricultural system due to excessive heat, lack of moisture and more intensive and widespread droughts leading to a reduction of agricultural production.

This is the first comprehensive international atlas featuring all ecological services provided by Ramsar wetlands, with complete views of all Ramsar sites, through remote sensing and mapping.

This book provides an essential appraisal of the recent advances in technologies, mathematical models and computational software used by those working with geodetic data.

The ability to effectively monitor the atmosphere on a continuous basis requires remote sensing in microwave.

Climate change, a familiar term today, is far more than just global warming due to atmospheric greenhouse gases including CO2.

Uncertainty and context pose fundamental challenges in GIScience and geographic research.

This volume presents a selection of papers from the 13th International Conference on Military Geosciences (ICMG), held 24-28 June 2019 in Padua, Italy.

The success of natural disaster study depends on updated, accurate, and exact information.

High Resolution Site Surveys brings together the full range of site surveying techniques for the first time, to provide a unified approach to marine and land-based resolution surveying.

This text reflects the interdisciplinary nature of GIS research and includes coverage of such themes as: virtual GIS; spatial analysis; artificial intelligence; spatial agents and fuzzy systems; and space-time GIS and GIS applications.

This work reflects preoccupations with the threats posed to our environment due to climatic factors, major and natural hazards of all kinds and demographic influences.

A balanced review of differing approaches based on remote sensing tools and methods to assess and monitor biodiversity, carbon and water cycles, and the energy balance of terrestrial ecosystem.

In response to the ever-increasing global threat of terrorist attacks, the personal screening industry has been growing at a rapid rate.

The innovation in space technologies has generated a new method for observing and monitoring tsunamis from space.

This book presents reviews, examples and case studies of innovative applications in solid and hazardous waste management.

This book provides two conceptual frameworks for further investigation of map literacy and fills in a gap in map literacy studies, addressing the distinction between reference maps and thematic maps and the varying uses of quantitative map literacy (QML) within and between the two.

This book provides readers with an insight into the development of a novel method for regridding gridded spatial data, an operation required to perform the map overlay operation and apply map algebra when processing spatial data.

GIS Tutorial for Crime Analysis, second edition, is a workbook for crime analysts and students of criminology.

Embark on an extraordinary journey into the depths of the ocean.

Remote sensing has revolutionized the scientific study of the Earth by enabling measurements of more detailed and hitherto unexplored phenomena with spatially-extensive and global perspectives.

The book deals with the relationship and interaction between epikarst and surface karstification in seven chapters.

In an increasingly globalised built environment industry, achieving higher levels of integration across organisational and software boundaries can lead to improved economic, social and environmental outcomes.

This book summarizes the author's research resulted in developing the satellite radiothermovision approach which allows retrieving dynamical and energy characteristics of atmospheric mesoscale and synoptic-scale processes based on a close scheme of satellite passive radiometry data processing.

The arrival of ArcGIS Pro has brought a challenge to ArcMap users.

A primatologist''s guide to using geographic information systems (GIS); from mapping and field accuracy, to tracking travel routes and the impact of logging.

This volume presents a timely collection of research papers on the progress, opportunities, and challenges related to the advancement of geospatial technologies for applications in urban health research and management.