Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing

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

This book deals with selected problems of machine perception, using various 2D and 3D imaging sensors.

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.

An essential reference of contemporary Arabic terms for successful business communicationBusiness Arabic: A Comprehensive Vocabulary contains the key terms professionals and learners need for successful business communication.

Satellite Monitoring of Inland and Coastal Water Quality: Retrospection, Introspection, Future Directions reviews how aquatic optics models can convert remote determinations of water color into accurate assessments of water quality.

Today, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have a pervasive presence in almost every aspect of the management of water.

The optional Introduction is an informal description of the content of the standard.

The potential users of GIS for health related analysis and applications are legion.

This book presents a survey, dynamic monitoring and comprehensive analysis of Sri Lanka's land, vegetation, surface water, ocean and other environmental resources, as well as its economic, transportation, urban, agricultural and tourism development.

GIS for Surface Water: Using the National Hydrography Dataset enables scientists, managers, and students to understand the complexities of the vital surface waters of the United States.

This book discusses various statistical models and their implications for developing landslide susceptibility and risk zonation maps.

We live in an age of rapid technological development.

This encyclopedia provides a snapshot of our current geological knowledge on solid-surface Solar System bodies.

This book illustrates how literature, history and geographical analysis complement and enrich each other's disciplinary endeavors.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction about recent state-of-the-art advancements in Open GIS, including Open GIS data, services, software, and libraries for GIS programming.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines.

This book contains a selection of papers from the 16th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH), the premier long-running forum in geographical information science.

Himalaya, one of the global biodiversity hotspots, is the abode of a variety of flora and fauna.

Due to their unique geophysical and geodynamic environment, both the Arctic and Antarctic polar regions are often utilized for geodetic and geophysical observations.

With the emergence of compressive sensing and sparse signal reconstruction, approaches to urban radar have shifted toward relaxed constraints on signal sampling schemes in time and space, and to effectively address logistic difficulties in data acquisition.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in recent years and now provide powerful tools for the capture, manipulation, integration, interrogation, modelling, analysis and visualisation of data - tools that are already used for policy support in a wide range of areas at almost all geographic and administrative levels.

Felix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography, by Franco Berardi 'Bifo', originates in the author's close personal acquaintance with Felix Guattari's writings and political engagement in the context of Berardi Bifo's activism in Italian autonomist politics and his ongoing collaboration with Guattari in the 1970s and 1980s.

Remote Sensing plays a key role in monitoring the various manifestations of global climate change.

Born out of a major international dialogue held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy, this collection of essays presents innovative and provocative arguments about the claims of universal knowledge schemes and the different aesthetic and material forms in which such claims have been made and executed.

The world faces challenges that supersede and ignore national and regional boundaries and cannot be solved by a single individual, nation, science, or profession.

'We need new maps' is the central claim made in this book.

At the end of the 1970s, when signs of destabilization of forests became visible in Eu- rope on a large scale, it soon became obvious that the syndrome called "e;forest de- cline"e; was caused by a network of interrelated factors of abiotic and biotic origin.

Geographic Information System Skills for Foresters and Natural Resource Managers provides a resource for developing knowledge and skills concerning GIS as it applies to forestry and natural resource management.

Arc welding is one of the key processes in industrial manufacturing, with welders using two types of processes - gas metal arc welding (GMAW) and gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW).

An international team of over 150 experts provide up-to-date satellite imaging and quantitative analysis of the state and dynamics of the glaciers around the world, and they provide an in-depth review of analysis methodologies.

This book deals with issues and concerns for the human environment in the developing countries incorporating natural processes and systems, pollution removal technology, energy conservation, environmental impact assessment process, economics, culture, political structure and societal equity from a management point of view.

This book explores the value of the musical concept of "e;agogics"e; - the modification of regular rhythm to enhance expressive potential - in understanding urban spatial configurations within the current technological context and in developing urban maps that exploit sonic signals to create an open learning framework.

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.

The study presented in this SpringerBrief uses GIS tools to analyze incidents of violence against women in West Bengal India, identifying "e;hotspots"e; and offering tools and strategies to predict and prevent future violence.

The places of our daily life affect our health, well-being, and receipt of health care in complex ways.

This book draws on author's wealth of knowledge working on numerous projects across many countries.

The aim of the conference is to present and discuss new methods, issues and challenges encountered in all parts of the complex process of gradual development and application of digital surface models.

An essential tool for crime analysts looking to enhance the quality and efficiency of their crime mapping using ArcGIS Pro.

Shelving Guide:This book will present new research regarding the interdisciplinary applications of spatial information sciences for identification, assessment, monitoring, and modeling issues related to natural resources and environmental management.

This volume discusses current research on glial-neuronal interactions in several neuroendocrine systems.

"e;Sky Alert!

This book presents the current research on space-based navigation models and the contents of spaces used for seamless indoor and outdoor navigation.

Environmental remote sensing plays a critical role in observing key hydrological components such as precipitation, soil moisture, evapotranspiration and total water storage on a global scale.

Himalaya, one of the global biodiversity hotspots, is the abode of a variety of flora and fauna.

This book presents the research papers accepted for the 21st AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held at Lund University Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Centre, Sweden on 12-15 June 2018.

Remote sensing has provided a new impetus for the earth, resource and environmental scientists.

What affects the oceans affects terra firma.

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Geographic Information Science and Technology (GISc&T) has been at the forefront of education innovation in geography and allied sciences for two decades.