Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing

This brief provides an overview of state-of-the-art sensing technologies relevant to the problem of precision irrigation, an emerging field within the domain of precision agriculture.

This book collates traditional and modern applications of remote sensing in aquatic ecosystem monitoring.

Derived from presentations made at the fourth annual UK National Conference on GIS Research, this work consists of contributions by leading experts in: geography, mathematics, computing science, surveying, archaeology, planning and medicine.

This book presents peer reviewed articles from the 11th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts (APAC 2023).

This book studies the increasing use of data analytics and technology in urban planning and development in developing nations.

Deep Learning for Multi-Sensor Earth Observation addresses the need for transformative Deep Learning techniques to navigate the complexity of multi-sensor data fusion.

This proceedings volume contains selected and expanded contributions presented at the 6th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, held in Delft, the Netherlands on Sep 24th-25th, 2019.

Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users, second edition, is a comprehensive guide to creating maps that communicate effectively.

This book contains the best papers accepted for presentation at the 3rd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-3).

Climate change has been addressed since last decade based on the influence of human activities like production of industrial effluents, land use changes and other activities due to development of the society.

Describes and evaluates the basic principles, methods and applications of subsurface sensing and imaging, covering a wide range of techniques.

Supporting tribes with an all new chapter on ArcGIS Pro, written by tribal leaders who successfully use GIS.

The GIS Guide to Public Domain Data gives users of geographic information systems (GIS) relevant information about the sources and quality of available public domain spatial data.

This book presents a selection of manuscripts submitted to the 2nd International Conference on Geospatial Information Sciences 2021, a virtual conference held on November 3-5, 2021.

Rapid transformation processes occur in the Majority World, where most of the global population is living (estimated around ?

This book describes three years of work by the Culture and Communities Mapping Project, a research project based in Edinburgh that uses maps as an object of study and also a means to facilitate research.

This comprehensive atlas explains the genesis and evolution of impact known craters on Earth, presenting a wealth of radar images from the Italian COSMO-SkyMed satellites that were acquired at the same frequency, spatial resolution, operating mode, and illumination, allowing excellent comparison of different impact structures.

Archaeology has been historically reluctant to embrace the subject of agent-based simulation, since it was seen as being used to "e;re-enact"e; and "e;visualize"e; possible scenarios for a wider (generally non-scientific) audience, based on scarce and fuzzy data.

Increasing evidence suggests that the composition and spatial configuration - the pattern - of forest landscapes affect many ecological processes, including the movement and persistence of particular species, the susceptibility and spread of disturbances such as fires or pest outbreaks, and the redistribution of matter and nutrients.

Image fusion in remote sensing or pansharpening involves fusing spatial (panchromatic) and spectral (multispectral) images that are captured by different sensors on satellites.

Leverage the power of SQL to perform geospatial analysis and increase your speed and efficiency working with a variety of spatial applications such as PostGIS and QGISKey FeaturesFollow along with actionable instructions with this practical guideBecome well-versed in advanced spatial modeling and machine learning techniquesLearn best practices for performing spatial analysis from an expert spatial data analystBook DescriptionGeospatial analysis is industry agnostic and a powerful tool for answering location questions.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of GIS and geo-spatial technologies, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Geoinformatics for Spatial-Infrastructure Development in Earth & Allied Sciences (GIS-IDEA), held in Hanoi, Vietnam on November 7-9 2023.

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries-all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps.

A review of five major categories of lithogenetic and morphogenetic terrain types meet the complex terrain criteria: landslides, field photos of slope failures, bedrocks, nonglacial surficial deposits, glacial and alpine-glacial, and periglacial.

This heavily illustrated book contains descriptions and geologic interpretations of photographs (mostly aerial) illustrating the power and magnitude of repeated Ice Age flooding in the Pacific Northwest, as recently as 14,000 years ago.

The book is a collection of the lectures delivered during the 7th International Summer School on Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ISSAOS) titled "e;Integrated Ground-Based Observing Systems Applications for Climate, Meteorology, and Civil Protection"e;.

Remotely sensed data, in the form of digital images captured from spaceborne and airborne platforms, provide a rich analytical and observational source of information about the current status, as well as changes occurring in, on, and around the Earth's surface.

Reeds Introductions: Essential Sensing and Telecommunications for Marine Engineering Applications covers all fundamental and essential theoretical maritime physics principles which underpin modern marine sensors and telecommunications devices as needed by marine users such as: Navy, Coastguard, Merchant Shipping and users of pleasure craft.

Major advances in the use of geographic information systems have been made in both anthropology and archaeology.

With the turn of the century our ability to collect and store geospatial information has increased considerably.

GIS for Environmental Applications provides a practical introduction to the principles, methods, techniques and tools in GIS for spatial data management, analysis, modelling and visualisation, and their applications in environmental problem solving and decision making.

This book presents advances in matrix and tensor data processing in the domain of signal, image and information processing.

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.

Introduction to GNSS Geodesy is a concise reference for beginners and experts in GNSS-based satellite geodesy.

This book focuses on data and knowledge management for teaching and research in Africa.

GIS and Geocomputation for Water Resource Science and Engineering not only provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of geographic information systems but also demonstrates how GIS and mathematical models can be integrated to develop spatial decision support systems to support water resources planning, management and engineering.

This book examines the application of geotechniques to address a wide range of issues facing urban water resources.

This book provides basic and advanced concepts of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), PolSAR, InSAR, PolInSAR, and all necessary information about various applications and analysis of data of multiple sensors.

The use of small unoccupied aerial systems (sUAS) for acquiring close-range remotely sensed data has substantially increased in the past 5 years.

This volume collects and presents the fundamentals, tools, and processes of utilizing geospatial information technologies to process remotely sensed data for use in agricultural monitoring and management.

The worldwide popularisation of mobile communication technologies and the incre- ing awareness of usability issues since 1990's have been urging map designers to s- cialise and extend cartographic semiotics, visualisation styles and map use techniques for mobile contexts and small display devices.

There is an affirming transformation, basically in the form of core methodology, in recent geomorphological studies.

Get up to speed on GNSS for mobile applications with this practical guide, including step-by-step algorithms and key methods for future systems.

This book is the product of five and a half years of research dedicated to the und- standing of radar interferometry, a relatively new space-geodetic technique for m- suring the earth's topography and its deformation.

This book highlights the recent findings and advances in science engineering technology and sustainability issues.