Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing

This work becomes with methodological rigor a part of the innovative proposals for the characterization of the areas at risk of desertification.

Wind erosion occurs in many arid, semiarid and agricultural areas of the world.

Digital airborne cameras are now penetrating the fields of photogrammetry and remote sensing.

Building on more than a decade of innovative research into multi-source forest inventory (MS-NFI) this book presents full details of the development, outputs and applications of the improved k-NN method.

Geomatics is a neologism, the use of which is becoming increasingly widespread, even if it is not still universally accepted.

Clouds and cloud systems and their interactions with larger scales of motion, radiation, and the Earth's surface are extremely important parts of weather and climate systems.

David Stevens Space-based information, which includes earth observation data, is increasingly becoming an integral part of our lives.

Increasing evidence suggests that the composition and spatial configuration - the pattern - of forest landscapes affect many ecological processes, including the movement and persistence of particular species, the susceptibility and spread of disturbances such as fires or pest outbreaks, and the redistribution of matter and nutrients.

Homeland security and context In the Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism (GDOT) (Cutter et al.

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Since the first edition of Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach was published in 2002, GRASS has undergone major improvements.

With the launch of very high-resolution satellite sensors at the beginning of this decade (e.

Global Change is increasingly considered a critical topic in environmental research.

International terrorism remains a significant threat to the peace of the world.

Princess Enheduanna, daughter of king Sargon of Akkad, lived around 2300 BC.

In case of security threats there is a need for temporal access to complete, updated, reliable information, in a dedicated form, is an essential prerequisite to effectively counter security threats.

Terahertz frequency sensing has a unique part to play in the detection and identification of materials and objects.

This book collects the review papers from both technical sessions and three discussion panels of the 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing (ISPMSRS).

On June 28 through July 1, 2006, a NATO advanced research workshop was held in Kyiv, Ukraine.

The 6th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation, initiated by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), was again hosted by DLR, the German Aerospace Center.

Measuring Precipitation from Space presents state-of-the-art rainfall estimation algorithms, validation strategies, precipitation modelling, and assimilation in numerical weather prediction models.

Recent ecological disasters make human beings aware of changes in the Earth's climate.

The decision to write this book was motivated by a number of factors.

Models of land-use change incorporate a vast amount of knowledge from a wide range of disciplines.

Flying safely in aircraft implies the use of navigation instruments.

Flood damages are increasing as a result of frequent occurrence of large floods in many parts of the world, existing and continuing encroachment of development onto flood plains and aging flood protection structures.

Research into microwave radiation from the Earth's surface in the presence of vegetation canopies, as well as the development of algorithms for retrieval of soil and vegetation parameters from microwave radiometric measurements, have been actively conducted for the last 30 years by scientific groups worldwide.

The aquatic coastal zone is one of the most challenging targets for environmental remote sensing.

"e;Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas"e; provides instructors with a text reference that has a logical and easy-to-follow flow of topics around which they can structure the syllabi of their urban remote sensing courses.

This book has been developed as a forest inventory textbook for students and could also serve as a handbook for practical foresters.

This book contains the results of a 9 year (1995-2004) investigation of the Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone, using state of the art technology.

The chapters in this volume were presented at the July 2005NATO Advanced Study Institute on Advances in Sensing with Security App- cations.

Until the 1980s, a tacit agreement among many physical oceanographers was that nothing deserving attention could be found in the upper few meters of the ocean.

This book calls the attention of the scientific community, government organizations and non-government agencies, and the general public, to arguably one of the most important and complex of the world's tropical rainforest regions - the greater Panama Canal Watershed.

Soil moisture plays an important role in the runoff process, and its evaluation can be used as a marker of flood risk or drought occurrence.

Coastal waters are important ecological systems and vital assets for many nations.

A new discipline of hydrogeophysics has evolved, aimed at improved simultaneous use of geophysical and hydrogeological measurements for hydrogeological investigations.

This volume is a synthesis of the NASA funded work under the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program.

Remote Sensing image analysis is mostly done using only spectral information on a pixel by pixel basis.

The fourth edition of the European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications (geoENV IV) took place in Barcelona, November 27-29, 2002.

The purpose of this book is to analyze, with actual examples, different techniques that have been developed to tackle the complex task of making an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of a project.

Photopolarimetric remote sensing is vital in fields as diverse as medical diagnostics, astrophysics, atmospheric science, environmental monitoring and military intelligence.

Increasingly used to represent climatic, biogeochemical, and ecological systems, computer modeling has become an important tool that should be in every environmental professional's toolbox.

Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing offers an extensive overview of this versatile and extremely precise technology for technically oriented undergraduates and graduate students.

Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing offers an extensive overview of this versatile and extremely precise technology for technically oriented undergraduates and graduate students.

Understanding spatial statistics requires tools from applied and mathematical statistics, linear model theory, regression, time series, and stochastic processes.

The Virtual and the Real in Planning and Urban Design: Perspectives, Practices and Applicationsexplores the merging relationship between physical and virtual spaces in planning and urban design.