Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing

This book is the first of its type on NEOM Region, NW of Saudi Arabia.

This book covers several themes related to forestry, agriculture, water, soil, urban, and atmospheric research.

This volume gathers the proceedings of the IX Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy, which was held from 18 to 22 June 2018 at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

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.

This book describes how powerful computing technology, emerging big and open data sources, and theoretical perspectives on spatial synthesis have revolutionized the way in which we investigate social sciences and humanities.

This book discusses the striking geomorphological landscapes of mainland Norway.

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.

This monograph examines contemporary environmental challenges facing Nepal, this landlocked country's representativeness in the wider South Asian context is both distinct and generalizable.

International scholarship is increasingly aware that the 'geographical tradition' is a contentious and contested field: while critical reflections on the imperial past of the discipline are still ongoing, new tendencies including de-colonial studies and geographies of internationalism are focusing on the progressive aspects of plural geographical traditions.

This book provides state-of-the-art information on photogrammetry for cultural heritage, exploring the problems and presenting solutions that are applicable under real-world conditions and in various disciplines.

This volume fills a research gap between the rapid development of High Performance Computing (HPC) approaches and their geospatial applications.

Studies on South Asia are an emerging interdisciplinary field, this volume expands on the currently limited literature available on South Asia and focuses on the regions environmental, climatic and natural resource base by looking at case studies from Nepal, India and Bangladesh.

This book gives new insight to the study of the global environmental changes using the ecoinformatics and microwave remote sensing tools together with the adaptive-evolutionary technology of geoinformation monitoring.

These proceedings include selected papers from the International Review Workshop on Satellite Altimetry Cal/Val Activities and Applications, held in Chania, Crete, Greece, on 23-26 April 2018.

This book showcases how new and emerging technologies like Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are trying to provide solutions to unresolved socio-economic and environmental problems.

This book presents research using high-resolution operational satellite data for monitoring and assessing numerically how to reduce the area and intensity of malaria outbreaks.

This edited volume charts the history of celestial navigation over the course of five centuries.

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

This book addresses new pedagogies focusing on the use of geospatial technologies and geomedia in the classroom.

Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but it is posing new challenges to humans and natural ecosystems in the 21st century.

This book includes a careful selection of significant contributions from international experts that were presented at the 6th AIGA Conference "e;Applied Geology: Approaches to Future Resource Management"e; that was held in the Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy, from 27 - 29 June 2018.

Northern Tanzania is an important and diverse ecological and cultural region with many protected lands.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Landscapes and Landforms of Switzerland.

This books documents the salient characters of the tectonic evolution of the Indian subcontinent.

This book offers an overview of recent literature on land degradation and its interrelationship with socio-economic development processes in the developing world.

This book gives an insight into the evaluation of drought in Slovakia and provides an assessment of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a method suitable for an evaluation of drought in agricultural land.

This book offers in-depth insights into the rapidly growing topic of technologies and approaches to modeling fuzzy spatiotemporal data with XML.

This book gives a comprehensive view of the strengths and limits of the interdisciplinary methods that work together to form the geohistorical approach to geographical and geological sciences.

This book addresses the current challenges in controlling Kala-azar disease (Visceral leishmaniasis) in India and other VL-endemic areas, and aims to develop and apply a geo-environmental risk model based on primary and secondary data with the aid of remote sensing and GIS technologies to assess and mitigate Kala-azar transmission.

This book presents a comprehensive selection of applications employed in environmental remote sensing using optical and thermal infrared satellite-sensors aiming to map natural resources, crops, groundwater, surface water, aquatic ecosystem, land degradation, air quality, renewable energy, regional resources, and climate-related geophysical processes.

These proceedings include selected papers from the International Review Workshop on Satellite Altimetry Cal/Val Activities and Applications, held in Chania, Crete, Greece, on 23-26 April 2018.

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

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 1st International Conference on Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics (UASG), held in Roorkee, India on April 6-7, 2019.

This book presents the fundamentals of data assimilation and reviews the application of satellite remote sensing in hydrological data assimilation.

This book reviews the state of the art in algorithmic approaches addressing the practical challenges that arise with hyperspectral image analysis tasks, with a focus on emerging trends in machine learning and image processing/understanding.

Julius Schmidt was one of the finest astronomical observers of his time, and his detailed map of the Moon surpassed anything that had come before.

This book provides an introduction to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for the geographic observation and spatial analysis of urban areas.

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

This proceedings volume focuses on the importance and power of spatial thinking and planning, especially by applying geospatial technologies in solving the past and current global problems such as environmental degradation, urban pollution, climate change, agricultural management and epidemiology.

This book provides applications of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in environmental monitoring, with an emphasis on livestock disease detection and agricultural management in Africa to aid farmers.

This book chronicles the decades-long work of studying, analyzing, and reversing the environmental pressures that threatened India's Chilika Lagoon, the largest brackish-water lagoon in the region, and the second largest in the world.

This book is a collection of papers presented at the 11th International Conference of Military Geoscience that was held in 2015.

This book provides an inventory of water resources, describes water challenges, and suggests methodologies and technologies for integrated water resources management in the UAE.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium "e;Information Fusion and Intelligent Geographic Information Systems 2019"e; (IF&IGIS'2019), which was held in St.

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

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This volume is a compilation of studies on interactions of changes in land cover, land use and climate with people, societies and ecosystems in drylands of Greater Central Asia.

This new health atlas of Japan presents a series of maps about the health of the contemporary Japanese population, i.

This book focuses on developing an integrated holistic approach for harnessing the potential of rain-fed agriculture.