Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing

This textbook aims to develop a scientific knowledge base on spatial information technology to communicate the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among students, researchers, professionals and laymen.

This book examines geographical names, place-names, and toponymy from philosophical and cultural evolutionary perspectives.

The technique of imaging spectrometry has now passed its infancy and entered into a new phase of application oriented research.

This book is an introduction to techniques and applications of optical methods for materials Characterization in civil and environmental engineering.

The book is a compilation of the papers presented in the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering (ETWREE 2017).

This book provides in-depth information about the sea ice in the Arctic at scales from paleoenvironmental variability to more contemporary changes during the past and present centuries.

This book is one out of six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to dams, tunnels, groundwater resources, and climate change.

Data assimilation methods were largely developed for operational weather forecasting, but in recent years have been applied to an increasing range of earth science disciplines.

This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India in terms of the physical, economic, social, political, and environmental aspects of urban geography, and focuses upon the inherent processes that impact its transformation.

This comprehensive and clearly structured book presents essential information on modern Location Science.

This book presents essential new insights in research and applications concerning spatial information technologies and coastal disaster prevention modeling for oceanic and coastal regions.

This monograph provides comprehensive coverage of the collection, management, and use of big data obtained from remote sensing.

Medical geography is a fascinating area of rapidly evolving study that aims to analyse and improve worldwide health issues based on the geographical factors which have an impact on them.

This book provides a collection of concepts, algorithms, and techniques that effectively harness the power of Spatial Network Big Data.

Volume V of theSix Volume Remote Sensing Handbook, Second Edition, is focused on the use of remote sensing technologies for studying water resources, including groundwater, floods, snow and ice, and wetlands.

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.

This book offers a collection of papers presented at the First International Conference"e; Information Technologies in the Research of Biodiversity"e; that was held from 11-14 September 2018 in Irkutsk (Russia).

The Mekong Basin in Southeast Asia is one of the largest international river basins in the world.

Geographic information systems (GIS) have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behavior and cultural development.

The key novelty of this book is first of all in the successful attempt to conduct jointly modeling of environment in terms of physical environment related parameters and measuring similar parameters by means of multispectral remote sensing, primarily by means of passive microwave remote sensing technology.

This book analyzes extensive data on the world's rapidly changing and growing access to, use and geographies of information and communications technologies.

This proceedings book presents the first-ever cross-disciplinary analysis of 16th-20th century South, East, and Southeast Asian cartography.

Designed to be a high-level, approachable resource for engineers who need further insight into spatial temporal information systems from an ontological perspective, Spatial Temporal Information Systems: An Ontological Approach using STK(R) explains the dynamics of objects interaction from signal analysis to trajectory design, spatial modeling, and other spatial analytics by using STK(R), which is a general-purpose modeling and analysis application for any type of space, defense, or intelligence system.

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.

Do more with your GIS and understand the foundation of spatial analysis: geographic patterns and relationships.

Over the past century, mechanization has been an important means for optimizing resource utilization, improving worker health and safety and reducing labor requirements in farming while increasing productivity and quality of 4F (Food, Fuel, Fiber, Feed).

This book assesses the use of various non-seismic and non-conventional oil and gas exploration methods in Cuba.

Remote Sensing of Geomorphology, Volume 23, discusses the new range of remote-sensing techniques (lidar, structure from motion photogrammetry, advanced satellite platforms) that has led to a dramatic increase in terrain information, and as such provided new opportunities for a better understanding of surface morphology and related Earth surface processes.

This book collects a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management) conference, held in the second week of July 2013 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

This volume addresses the physical foundation of remote sensing.

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.

An up-to-date, detailed set of notes covering all aspects of NOAA AVHRR data collection, pre-processing, analysis and application.

Regional development is intrinsically related to the way in which the land is used.

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

This contributed volume presents relevant examples of socio-environmental research that highlight the challenges and opportunities of using geotechnologies in interdisciplinary settings across the vast, culturally, and environmentally mega-diverse region known as Latin America.

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.

Spatial Data Science will show GIS scientists and practitioners how to add and use new analytical methods from data science in their existing GIS platforms.

This book is a valuable resource for the increasing body of researchers and practitioners in the field of geospatial technologies.

This book is an overview of current state of the art about monitoring of inundation events through remote sensing.

Geo-information technology offers an opportunity to support disaster management: industrial accidents, road collisions, complex emergencies, earthquakes, fires, floods and similar catastrophes (for example the recent huge disaster with the Tsunami in South-East Asia on 26 December 2004).

This book is one out six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to mining, aggregates, and karst.

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 departs from typical cartography textbooks, which tend to focus on the characteristics of the methods and means of expression.

The ability to anticipate the impacts of global environmental changes on natural resources is fundamental to designing appropriate and optimised adaptation and mitigation strategies.

This book contains the full research papers presented at  the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held in 2017 at Wageningen University &  Research  in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

Volume 2: Handbook of Spatio-Temporal Monitoring of Water Resources and Climate is aimed to describe the current state of knowledge and developments of geospatial technologies (Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems) for assessing and managing water resources under climate change.