Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing

Floods and flash floods with hydro-meteorological and tropical cyclones are the some of the most devastating natural disasters causing massive damages to natural and man-made features.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge ideas, approaches, simulations, evaluations of risk, and systems that enhance the practicality of current geospatial technologies for reducing hazard risks.

Policy Issues in Modern Cartography contains the views of national mapping agencies, legal scholars, the library community, the private sector and academia on these and many other important issues.

Future remote sensing systems will make extensive use of Compressive Sensing (CS) as it becomes more integrated into the system design with increased high resolution sensor developments and the rising earth observation data generated each year.

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

Das Buch versteht sich als breit angelegte, methodische Einführung für Praktiker und Studenten.

This book covers the basics of processing and spectral analysis of monovariate discrete-time signals.

Hydrology is a topical and growing subject, as the earth's water resources become scarcer and more vulnerable.

Examines the structural evolution of the Earth's crust from the Triassic period to the present.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), widespread mobile devices, internet technologies, multimedia data sources, and information processing have led to the emergence of multimedia processing.

This book showcases powerful new hybrid methods that combine numerical and symbolic algorithms.

Remote sensing of impervious surfaces has matured using advances in geospatial technology so recent that its applications have received only sporadic coverage in remote sensing literature.

This book employs a suite of remotely sensed products and advanced technologies to provide the first comprehensive space-based sensing of Lake Victoria, the world's second largest freshwater lake that supports a livelihood of more than 42 million people, modulates regional climate, but faces myriads of challenges.

This book brings together a collection of invited interdisciplinary persp- tives on the recent topic of Object-based Image Analysis (OBIA).

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

Each year we witness several paradigm shifts in mobility systems and services, increasingly so as technology progresses.

With GIS technology increasingly available to a wider audience on devices from apps on smartphones to satnavs in cars, many people routinely use spatial data in a way which used to be the preserve of GIS specialists.

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

The management of data to understand complex and interwoven processes of sustainable development has been a great challenge for researchers, planners, and decision makers.

This accessible shortform book describes storm surge forecasting to enable port managers and practitioners to forecast these and mitigate their effects.

This work reflects preoccupations with the threats posed to our environment due to climatic factors, major and natural hazards of all kinds and demographic influences.

This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the transformative journey toward smart cities and the implementation of cutting-edge technologies in urban development.

This book is the result of the work of the first international congress of the ArabGU (Arabian Geosciences Union) which took place in Algiers (Algeria) in February 2016.

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

China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC 2021) Proceedings presents selected research papers from CSNC 2021 held during 22nd-25th May, 2021 in Nanchang, China.

Land Reclamation and Restoration Strategies for Sustainable Development: Geospatial Technology Based Approach, Volume Ten covers spatial mapping, modeling and risk assessment in land hazards issues and sustainable management.

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

A ground-up approach to explaining dynamic spatial modelling for an interdisciplinary audience.

There are many GIS products for smart cities to implement smart city projects or activities.

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

Injuries due to air turbulence has increased recently, therefore there is considerable concern and interest in understanding and detecting it more accurately.

This book addresses space science and communication - one of the main pillars of space science sustainability, an area that has recently become of great importance.

This is a book about how ecologists can integrate remote sensing and GIS in their 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.

Every amateur astronomer has at least heard of the many different catalogs of deep-sky objects; the most well known are the Messier, the Caldwell, the Herschel, and the NGC.

This book includes a collection of extended papers based on presentations given during the SIMHYDRO 2021 conference, held in Sophia Antipolis in June 2021 with the support of French Hydrotechnic Society (SHF).

Processing the vast amounts of data on the Earth's land surface environment generated by NASA's and other international satellite programs is a significant challenge.

Water is one of the most critical resources of nature that is necessary for sustaining life for all living things.

Desertification and land degradation are complex phenomena, and we need to understand their causes, consequences, and means to mitigate and combat their impact.

This book includes a collection of extended papers based on presentations given during the SimHydro 2023 conference, held in EDF Lab Chatou, France, with the support of  Societe Hydrotechnique de France (SHF), the Association Francaise de Mecanique (AFM), the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), and the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR).

This book focuses on the mathematical and physical foundations of remote sensing digital image processing and introduces key algorithms utilized in this area.

Selbstkonsistente Darstellung von Schlüssel- und Transfermethodologien vom Realitätsraum geodätischer Messungen und Beobachtungen in den Modellraum mathematischer Strukturen und Lösungen und zurück, neue Perspektiven und Forschungstrends im Bereich Mathematischer Geodäsie.

Modern airborne and spaceborne imaging radars, known as synthetic aperture radars (SARs), are capable of producing high-quality pictures of the earth's surface while avoiding some of the shortcomings of certain other forms of remote imaging systems.

A definitive description of the various models of mission operations systems MOS which provides an account of the design process and of the general principles of the designs themselves.

This collection of papers is the proceedings of the 7th International Synosium on Water Tracing in Portoroz/Slovenia from 26-31 May 1997.

This book covers the fundamentals of satellite microwave instrument calibration, remote sensing sciences and algorithms, as well as the applications of the satellite microwave observations in weather and climate research.

Although lunar exploration began in the 1960s, the moon and other planets have many long-standing, unanswered questions about planetary environments, origin, formation and evolution, magnetization of crustal rocks, internal structure, and possible life.