Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing

This volume presents the conference proceedings from FinDrones2020.

This book presents the distinctive theoretical and methodological approaches in geography education in South America and more specifically in Brazil, Chile and Colombia.

Placed at the intersection among philosophy, geography, and computer science, the domain of investigation of applied ontology of geography ranges from making explicit assumptions and commitments of geography as a discipline, to the theoretical and technical needs of geographical/IT tools, such as GIS and geo-ontologies.

This book addresses the mapping of soil-landscape parameters in the geospatial domain.

This book presents a case study-based analysis of the consequences of external interventions, critically evaluating them from community perspectives.

This book gathers a selection of the best papers presented during the 14th International Conference on Location Based Services, which was held in Zurich (Switzerland) between the 15th and 17th January 2018.

The book will provide an overview of the practical application of remote sensing for the purposes of nature conservation as developed by ecologists in collaboration with remote sensing specialists, providing guidance on all phases from the planning of remote sensing projects for conservation to the interpretation and validation of the images.

This book, Smart Agriculture: Harnessing Machine Learning for Crop Management, is a comprehensive guide designed to explore the various facets of integrating machine learning into agricultural practices.

This book focuses on the generalization of map features, providing descriptions and classifying groups of map objects into six categories: point clusters, groups of contours, road networks, river networks, continuous areal features and discrete areal features.

Today the world's largest economies and corporations trade in data and its products to generate value in new disruptive markets.

This book covers a wide spectrum of water resources management, including water supply and demand, operation and maintenance of water distribution systems, water quality assessment, impacts of climate change on hydrological extremes, and water governance.

Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Principles and Applications discusses the fundamental principles of atmospheric remote sensing and their applications in different research domains.

This book introduces a comprehensive understanding in the use of space techniques in natural hazards and risk management in the MENA Region.

This book provides an original cross-thematic and wide scope review of crime prevention processes in urban areas that are explicitly based on the cooperation between different scientific and professional fields.

This monograph discusses the dispute in geographical naming of the sea between Korea and Japan, which has been a long-lasting issue in East Asia and beyond.

This book introduces a planning support system called Strategic Spatial Plan Support System (SSP-SS) to visualize population growth and predict energy demand, land use, and waste discharge resulting from urbanization.

This book discusses the threats and impacts of flash floods in Vietnam on environmental, human, and socio-economic resources, and covers monitoring, forecasting, warning, urgent action plans, and prevention solutions.

This book highlights advanced applications of geospatial data analytics to address real-world issues in urban society.

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

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

This book is based on research that gives the reader a nonfiction view of how Cuba's landscape has changed since the time when Columbus first set foot on the island and encountered the Indigenous peoples who lived there in 1492 to present day.

Geomorphic environment has been recognised as a typical ensemble of environmental resource units or geobiological complexes that possess specific abiotic and biotic associations and, consequently, inherit similar potential and problems for a given use of a land parcel.

Water is the elixir of life and is crucial for sustainable development.

This book provides up-to-date, in-depth and accessible information on the concept of scale, and focuses on its applications in geography, Earth science, environmental science, and other fields in which the environment plays a significant role.

Dieses Lehr- und Übungsbuch richtet sich an Sie als Studierende und praktisch tätige Fachleute der Geodäsie, der Geomatik, der Vermessung, der Ingenieurmathematik und verwandter Fachrichtungen.

Planetary health involves complex spatial-temporal interactions among agents, hosts, and earth environment.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of geographic information systems and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 2nd International Conference on Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics (UASG), held in Roorkee, India on April 2-4, 2021.

This book discusses the problems in planning, building, and management strategies in the wake of application and expansion of remote sensing and GIS products in natural resources and infrastructure management.

This textbook introduces physical geodesy.

This book intends to decipher the knowledge in the advancement of understanding, detecting, predicting, and monitoring landslides.

The present publication focusses the attention on new avenues in regional information and knowledge management, while we will zoom in particularly on the potential promises and hurdles of digital technology.

This book offers a thorough description of the challenges posed by increasing global urbanization.

This book provides compelling new insights into how cities are attempting to address sustainability challenges via major applications of geospatial technology in an urban area.

This book provides readers to the vision of Society 5.

Recent advances in theory and observations using passive microwave remote sensing have hightlighted the potential of spaceborne sensors for contributing to the required land surface measurements of soils, vegetation, snow cover and precipitation.

This book covers methodology of the study for all aspects of human geography.

Recent advances in theory and observations using passive microwave remote sensing have hightlighted the potential of spaceborne sensors for contributing to the required land surface measurements of soils, vegetation, snow cover and precipitation.

This book provides readers to the vision of Society 5.

This book provides the tools, the methods, and the theory to meet the challenges of contemporary data science applied to geographic problems and data.

This book provides compelling new insights into how cities are attempting to address sustainability challenges via major applications of geospatial technology in an urban area.

This book covers methodology of the study for all aspects of human geography.

Climate change, increasing population, food-versus-fuel economics, pandemics, etc.

Climate change, increasing population, food-versus-fuel economics, pandemics, etc.

This book presents a comprehensive coverage of remote sensing technology used to gather information on 12 types of natural hazards in the terrestrial sphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.

This book presents a comprehensive coverage of remote sensing technology used to gather information on 12 types of natural hazards in the terrestrial sphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.

This Lab Manual is a companion to the textbook Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing with R.

Vegetation fires are prevalent in several regions of the world, including South/ Southeast Asia (S/SEA).

This new textbook on remote sensing and digital image processing of natural resources includes numerous, practical problem-solving exercises and applications of sensors and satellite systems using remote sensing data collection resources, and emphasizes the free and open-source platform R.

This book provides a holistic perspective on the sustainable conservation of heritage buildings through outlining the factors that influence the preservation, operational performance and maintainability of heritage buildings and the application of new methodologies and technologies.