Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing

Four unique pan-European CORINE Land Cover datasets-CLC1990, CLC2000, CLC2006, and CLC2012- and three datasets concerning changes between 1990 and 2012 have presented the first-ever opportunity to observe the European landscape by means of land cover and its change.

This contributed volume collects cutting-edge research in Geographic Information Science & Technologies, Location Modeling, and Spatial Analysis of Urban and Regional Systems.

This book is the proceedings of the 5th China High-resolution Earth Observation Conference (CHREOC).

Mapping and Modeling Weather and Climate with GIS is a contributed volume of 23 chapters from leading climatologists, meteorologists, and other experts about how geospatial cartography and analysis helps to advance atmospheric science research.

This book provides a fresh analysis of the demography, health and well-being of a major African city.

Applications, 2nd Edition focuses on moving object management, from the location management perspective to determining how constantly changing locations affect the traditional database and data mining technology.

This book gives a comprehensive view of the developed procrustes models, including the isotropic, the generalized and the anisotropic variants.

Over the past decade, advances in sensor technology, processing algorithms, and computational capacity have taken remote sensing to a level where observations can be transformed into quantitative measurements, and the technology can be used in near real-time for mapping, monitoring and decision-making.

This book provides an overview of the ecological indicators of landscape dynamics in the context of geographical landscape integration.

"e;Thematic Cartography for the Society"e; is prepared on the basis of the best 30 papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Cartography and GIS held in Albena, Bulgaria in 2014.

A step-by-step user guide to geostatistical modeling for Earth Science graduates and researchers, and professional practitioners.

Over the last thirty years or so, there have been tremendous advancements in the area of geospatial health; however, somehow, two aspects have not received as much attention as they should have received.

This book provides the reader with the a comprehensive summary of the recent advances in the study of whitecaps.

For as far into the future as we can see, governments will probably topple, power will continue to exchange hands, the climate will undergo continuous change, and the global economy will ebb and flow like the oceans.

An introductory text for the next generation of geospatial analysts and data scientists, Spatial Analysis: Statistics, Visualization, and Computational Methods focuses on the fundamentals of spatial analysis using traditional, contemporary, and computational methods.

Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing: An Environmental Approach, Third Edition, is a definitive guide to remote sensing systems that focuses on satellite-based remote sensing tools and methods for space-based Earth observation (EO).

This volume focuses on approaches towards a better understanding of the geological, hydrogeological and paleoclimatic evolution of Northeast Africa.

These four volumes present innovative thematic applications implemented using the open source software QGIS.

Big Data, Code and the Discrete City explores how digital technologies are gradually changing the way in which the public space is designed by architects, managed by policymakers and experienced by individuals.

This textbook addresses the most recent advances and main digital technologies used in farming.

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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 contains a detailed presentation of general principles of sensitivity analysis as well as their applications to sample cases of remote sensing experiments.

This book seeks to bring together different philosophical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the study of human mobility within the discipline of geography.

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

The ever-expanding availability of spatial data continues to revolutionise research.

In recent years, there has been increased interest in our Solar System.

"e;GNSS - GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and more"e; is the extension of the scientific bestseller "e;GPS - Theory and Practice"e; to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and includes the Russian GLONASS, the European system Galileo, and additional systems.

In today's world, organizations face a multitude of problems that require an unprecedented need for tools to share information and work better together.

This edited volume focuses on the use of remote sensing techniques to assess and monitor mountainous ecosystems in Africa, with a focus on tracking changes related to climate change and human activity.

This book focuses on grassland ecosystem evaluation including vegetation coverage, net primary productivity, carbon sink accounting, and grassland degradation evaluation based on mutual data resource, ecosystem model simulation, remote sensing monitoring and driving mechanism exploration.

Computer-mediated participation is at the crossroads.

This text is the inaugural book in Taylor and Francis's GISDATA series, and is derived from the specialist workshop convened under the auspices of the European Science Foundation's GISDATA Scientific Programme.

This book forms a selection of chapters submitted for the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) conference, held in the second week of June 2021 at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.

This book presents the latest advances in remote-sensing and geographic information systems and applications.

Human activities as well as various natural phenomena change the environment and impact on the quality of life.

This book represents the most comprehensive description of the physical properties including geometry, structure, spatio-temporal evolution and remotely sensed reflectance and emissivity in visible, IR and microwave ranges of one of the most important elements of disturbed sea surface - sea waves breaking.

GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook is a top-selling introductory text for learning ArcGIS 10.

This book reviews the spaceborne and airborne remote sensing of clouds including cloud lidar and radar data analysis, snow and soil reflectance spectroscopy, and single light scattering by nonspherical scatterers.

This thesis reports on sparsity-based multipath exploitation methods for through-the-wall radar imaging.

Das Bauvertragsrecht definiert die Rechte und Pflichten des Bauherrn, der Bauaufsicht und der den Bau ausführenden Unternehmen.

This book discusses the impact of climate change, land use and land cover, and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries.

This book gathers contributions on modern irrigation environments in Egypt from an environmental and agricultural perspective.

This book presents contributions from the joint event 8th INGEO International Conference on Engineering Surveying and 4th SIG Symposium on Engineering Geodesy, which was planned to be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on April 1-4, 2020 and was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic situation.

Remote sensing is the small- or large-scale acquisition of information of an object or phenomenon, by the use of either recording or real-time sensing devices) that are wireless, or not in physical or intimate contact with the object (such as by way of aircraft, spacecraft, satellite, buoy, or ship).

This is the first authored English book completely focused on global navigation satellite system reflectometry (GNSS-R).

This book series is composed of peer-reviewed proceedings of selected symposia organized by the International Association of Geodesy.