Gis And Environmental Monitoring

Author : Stavros Kolios,Andrei V. Vorobev,Gulnara R. Vorobeva,Chrysostomos Stylios
Publisher : Springer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319530864

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GIS and Environmental Monitoring by Stavros Kolios,Andrei V. Vorobev,Gulnara R. Vorobeva,Chrysostomos Stylios Pdf

This book constitutes a notable contribution to investigate and present the capabilities of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applicability and usefulness in environmental-related applications and sciences. The focus is on the design, creation, development and operation of integrated Web-based GIS applications for weather, marine and atmospheric environments, and the Earth's magnetic field. More specifically, the aim of this book is to present characteristic applications of GIS to environmental monitoring including GIS solutions for eco-mapping sea and port-related parameters, climate changes, and geomagnetic field. In the first part of the book, the description of every application includes the user requirements, the design and development stages performed and the presentation of the final outcome, its capabilities and services. The Web-based applications are developed through different innovative approaches, such as cloud GIS and Google Apps for GIS, justifying the merit of WebGIS in the world of the environmental applications. The second part of the book provides an overview of geomagnetic field parameters and reveals the potential of using GIS for modeling and analyzing of the Earth's magnetic (geomagnetic) field and its parameters. Here, the authors present the recently introduced phenomenon called “geomagnetic pseudostorm”, which is modeled and further analyzed here with GIS technology and tools. This book appeals to those interested in various areas where spatial information becomes of paramount relevance (e.g. social and economic research and mapping, environmental and climate research, decision support systems, public services, and especially for geomagnetic field variations and for the design of warning systems for natural disasters). It presents modern methods and approaches to visualize and analyze spatial information using innovative techniques, procedures, and tools of WebGIS technology. In this book, the readers find a valuable companion in their efforts to design and develop their own WebGIS applications, as it includes useful examples of developing (Web)GIS applications regarding the monitoring of marine and atmospheric environments, as well as applications that deal with meteorological issues and the Earth’s magnetic field along with solar activity (space weather information).This book can also serve as a useful reference source for graduates, researchers and professionals related to the areas indicated above.

Author : Hans-Peter Bähr,Thomas Vögtle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:31951P00724144A

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GIS for Environmental Monitoring by Hans-Peter Bähr,Thomas Vögtle Pdf

GIS for Environmental Monitoring is a gentle but thorough introduction to those fields of which a basic understanding is a must for using, designing, and understanding geoinformation systems. These include introductions to reference systems, surveying and its techniques, cartography, digital imaging, data quality assessment. Audience: GIS for Erwironmental Monitoring addresses all users of geographical inforrnation systems and related techniques, that is engineers, geoscientists, surveyors, civil engineers, hydrologists as well as students of these fields.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Detectors
ISBN : UOM:39015047938199

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Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Santra, Abhisek,Mitra, Shreyashi Santra
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781522518150

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Remote Sensing Techniques and GIS Applications in Earth and Environmental Studies by Santra, Abhisek,Mitra, Shreyashi Santra Pdf

Emerging technologies have enhanced the various uses of geographic information systems. This allows for more effective analysis of available data to optimize resources and promote sustainability. Remote Sensing Techniques and GIS Applications in Earth and Environmental Studies is a critical reference source for the latest research on innovative methods for analyzing geographic data and utilizing sensor technologies for environmental monitoring. Featuring extensive coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such as land use, geospatial analysis, image interpretation, and site-suitability analysis, this book is ideally designed for engineers, professionals, practitioners, upper-level students, and academics actively involved in the various areas of environmental sciences.

Author : Joseph L. Awange,John B. Kyalo Kiema
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642340857

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Environmental Geoinformatics by Joseph L. Awange,John B. Kyalo Kiema Pdf

There is no doubt that today, perhaps more than ever before, humanity faces a myriad of complex and demanding challenges. These include natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, food and water insecurity, energy shortages, diminishing biodiversity, increasing losses from natural disasters, and climate change with its associated potentially devastating consequences, such as rising sea levels. These human-induced and natural impacts on the environment need to be well understood in order to develop informed policies, decisions, and remedial measures to mitigate current and future negative impacts. To achieve this, continuous monitoring and management of the environment to acquire data that can be soundly and rigorously analyzed to provide information about its current state and changing patterns, and thereby allow predictions of possible future impacts, are essential. Developing pragmatic and sustainable solutions to address these and many other similar challenges requires the use of geodata and the application of geoinformatics. This book presents the concepts and applications of geoinformatics, a multidisciplinary field that has at its core different technologies that support the acquisition, analysis and visualization of geodata for environmental monitoring and management. We depart from the 4D to the 5D data paradigm, which defines geodata accurately, consistently, rapidly and completely, in order to be useful without any restrictions in space, time or scale to represent a truly global dimension of the digital Earth. The book also features the state-of-the-art discussion of Web-GIS. The concepts and applications of geoinformatics presented in this book will be of benefit to decision-makers across a wide range of fields, including those at environmental agencies, in the emergency services, public health and epidemiology, crime mapping, environmental management agencies, tourist industry, market analysis and e-commerce, or mineral exploration, among many others. The title and subtitle of this textbook convey a distinct message. Monitoring -the passive part in the subtitle - refers to observation and data acquisition, whereas management - the active component - stands for operation and performance. The topic is our environment, which is intimately related to geoinformatics. The overall message is: all the mentioned elements do interact and must not be separated. Hans-Peter B ahr, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c., Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

Author : J. A. T. Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:319510004616432

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A U.K. Geographic Information System for Environmental Monitoring, Resource Planning & Management Capable of Integrating & Using Satellite Remotely Sensed Data by J. A. T. Young Pdf

Author : Alexandra Gemitzi,Nikolaos Koutsias,Venkat Lakshmi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429552670

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Advanced Environmental Monitoring with Remote Sensing Time Series Data and R by Alexandra Gemitzi,Nikolaos Koutsias,Venkat Lakshmi Pdf

This book provides a step-by-step guide on how to use various publicly available remotely sensed time series data sources for environmental monitoring and assessment. Readers will learn how to extract valuable information on global changes from a 20-year collection of ready-to-use remotely sensed data through the free open statistical software R and its geographic data analysis and modeling tools. The case studies are from the Mediterranean region—a designated hot spot regarding climate change effects. Each chapter is dedicated to specific remote sensing products chosen for their spatial resolution. The methods used are adapted from large-scale to smaller-scale problems for different land cover areas. Features Includes real-world applications of environmental remotely sensed data Analyzes the advantages and restrictions of each data source Focuses on a wide spectrum of applications, such as hydrology, vegetation changes, land surface temperature, fire detection, and impacts Includes R computer codes with explanatory comments and all applications use only freely available remotely sensed data Presents a step-by-step processing through open source GIS and statistical analysis software Advanced Environmental Monitoring with Remote Sensing Time Series Data and R describes and provides details on recent advances concerning publicly available remotely sensed time series data in environmental monitoring and assessment. This book is a must-have practical guide for environmental researchers, professionals, and students.

Author : Shailesh Nayak,Sisi Zlatanova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540792598

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Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies for Monitoring and Prediction of Disasters by Shailesh Nayak,Sisi Zlatanova Pdf

Lessons learned in the last several years have given clear indications that the prediction and efficient monitoring of disasters is one of the critical factors in decision-making process. In this respect space-based technologies have the great potential of supplying information in near real time. Earth observation satellites have already demonstrated their flexibility in providing data to a wide range of applications: weather forecasting, person and vehicle tracking, alerting to disaster, forest fire and flood monitoring, oil spills, spread of desertification, monitoring of crop and forestry damages. This book focuses on a wider utilisation of remote sensing in disaster management. The discussed aspects comprise data access/delivery to the users, information extraction and analysis, management of data and its integration with other data sources (airborne and terrestrial imagery, GIS data, etc.), data standardization, organisational and legal aspects of sharing remote sensing information.

Author : Sunny Fleming,Matt Artz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Environmental management
ISBN : 1589487591

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Finding a Sustainable Balance by Sunny Fleming,Matt Artz Pdf

Finding a Sustainable Balance: GIS for Environmental Management explores a collection of real-life stories about how environmental and natural resource management organizations successfully use GIS.

Author : George P. Petropoulos,Christos Chalkias
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780443136061

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Geographical Information Science by George P. Petropoulos,Christos Chalkias Pdf

Geographic Information Systems: Case Studies in Environmental Monitoring provides detailed remote sensing and GIS methods, algorithms and technology comparisons focusing on a wide range of environmental applications. The geoinformation technologies are demonstrated through templated case studies detailing real world use of the techniques and clarifying methods, tools and practical solutions to environmental mapping and monitoring. The book utilizes remote sensing and geospatial data from the most recently launched satellites,and applies the latest geospatial data approaches and analysis software tools (both commercial and open source). Geographic Information Systems: Case Studies in Environmental Monitoring is a comprehensive reference for researchers, academics and technicians in the fields of geospatial science & technology, remote sensing, and environmental science; or those processing and analyzing geospatial data for monitoring and modelling. Focuses on global, templated case studies of GIS applications to environmental monitoring Includes methodologies allowing readers to recreate techniques and models and workflows that can be used in their own work Covers a plethora of topics in applied geosciences, providing environmental and geographical applications of practical interest

Author : Manfred Ehlers
Publisher : SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115167103

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Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology IV by Manfred Ehlers Pdf

Proceedings of SPIE present the original research papers presented at SPIE conferences and other high-quality conferences in the broad-ranging fields of optics and photonics. These books provide prompt access to the latest innovations in research and technology in their respective fields. Proceedings of SPIE are among the most cited references in patent literature.

Author : Manfred Ehlers
Publisher : Society of Photo Optical
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0819442704

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Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology by Manfred Ehlers Pdf

Author : SPIE Conference on Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Detectors
ISBN : OCLC:1109092360

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Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology III : 9-11 September 2003, Barcelona, Spain by SPIE Conference on Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology Pdf

Author : Joseph L. Awange
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540882565

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Environmental Monitoring using GNSS by Joseph L. Awange Pdf

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are revolutionizing the world in a way their original developers never envisaged. From being military “war” tools, GNSS satellites are rapidly becoming “peace” tools that play a potentially critical role in enabling changing environmental phenomenon that do not permit direct measurements to be remotely observed via their all-weather, highly accurate and continuously updatable positional time series. This is evident, for example, in their use in emerging environmental monitoring methods that are considered in this book. These include: GPS-based radio telemetry, which is enhancing ecological and conservation monitoring by more accurately mapping animal movements, their behaviours, and their impact on the environment; GNSS-meteorology, which is contributing to weather and climate change studies; GNSS-remote sensing, which, for example, allows the rapid monitoring of changes in fresh water resources and cryosphere; Geosensor network techniques, which are earning a crucial role in disaster response management; Epidemiology, for improved efficiency in tracking and studying the spread of infectious diseases and climate change effects on vector-borne diseases; and Economics, to provide data for the econometric modelling of casual impact of policies. In Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA), Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA), and Sustainability Assessments (SA), GNSS, together with other spaced-based remote sensing techniques, are emerging, not only as modern tools that connect the developers to the community, but also provide information that support Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) methods, which inform decision making and policy formulations. By bringing the two fields of geodesy (the parent of GNSS technology) and environmental studies (potential users of this technology), this book presents the concepts of GNSS in a simplified way that can, on the one hand, be understood and utilised by environmentalists, while on the other, outlines its potential applications to environmental monitoring and management for those engaged more with its technology, which hopefully will further energise the already innovative research that is being carried out. Lastly, this book is most relevant to all the professionals whose work is related to the environment such as hydrologists, meteorologists, epidemiologists, economist, and engineers, to name just a few. A comprehensive yet candid and compelling presentation of Global Navigation Satellite Systems and its application to environmental monitoring and a host of other socio-economic activities. This is an essential and new ground breaking reading for all professional practitioners and even academics seeking to study and become involved in using Global Navigation Satellite Systems in diverse fields ranging from environmental monitoring to economic activities such as monitoring weather and climate in order to design crop failure insurance. Nathaniel O. Agola, Professor of Business and Financial Economics, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Author : Prashant K. Srivastava,Saumitra Mukherjee,Manika Gupta,Tanvir Islam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319059068

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Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental Research by Prashant K. Srivastava,Saumitra Mukherjee,Manika Gupta,Tanvir Islam Pdf

Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental Research is the basis for advanced Earth Observation (EO) datasets used in environmental monitoring and research. Now that there are a number of satellites in orbit, EO has become imperative in today’s sciences, weather and natural disaster prediction. This highly interdisciplinary reference work brings together diverse studies on remote sensing and GIS, from a theoretical background to its applications, represented through various case studies and the findings of new models. The book offers a comprehensive range of contributions by well-known scientists from around the world and opens a new window for students in presenting interdisciplinary and methodological resources on the latest research. It explores various key aspects and offers state-of-the-art research in a simplified form, describing remote sensing and GIS studies for those who are new to the field, as well as for established researchers.