Geospatial Techniques for Managing Environmental Resources

Contents Foreword Preface 1 Environmental informatics advancing data intensive sciences to solve environmental problemsChaowei Yang Yan Xu and Daniel Fay 2 Hierarchical geospatial computing environment for data-intensive geographic process simulationMingyuan Hu Hui Lin Bingli Xu Ya Hu Sammy Tang and Weitao Che 3 Integration of geographic information systems for monitoring and dissemination of marine environment dataMarcin Kulawiak and Marek Moszynski 4 Estimation of evapotranspiration from wetlands using geospatial and hydrometeorological dataJay Krishna Thakur PK Srivastava Arun Kumar Pratihast and Sudhir Kumar Singh 5 Climbing the water ladder--the new GIS approachAmos Kabo-bah and Kamila Lis 6 Supraglacial lake classification in the Everest region of Nepal HimalayaPrajjwal K Panday Henry Bulley Umesh Haritashya and Bardan Ghimire 7 Towards the improvement of water resource management by combining technologies for spatial data collection storage analysis and disseminationNafaa Jabeur and James D McCarthy 8 Geomorphologic risk modelling of the Sibiu depression using geospatial surface analysesMarioara Costea Roxama Giusca and Rodica Ciobanu 9 Geospatial technique to study forest cover using ALOSPALSAR dataRam Avtar Jay Krishna Thakur Amit Kumar Mishra and Pankaj Kumar 10 Assessment of land useland cover using geospatial techniques in a semi-arid region of Madhya Pradesh IndiaPrafull Singh Jay Krishna Thakur Suyash Kumar and UC Singh 11 The environmental calculator a tool for the efficient assessment of environmental services loss due to deforestationMiguel Martinez Tapia Xanat Antonio Nemiga and Jose Isabel Juan Perez 12 Urban tree detection using mobile laser scanning dataArun Kumar Pratihast and Jay Krishna Thakur 13 Multisensor fusion of remote sensing data for crop disease detectionDimitrios Moshou Ioannis Gravalos Dimitrios Kateris  Cedric Bravo Roberto Oberti Jon S West and Herman Ramon 14 Geospatial analysis of cancer cases in the eastern black sea region of TurkeyEbru H Colak and Tahsin Yomralioglu 15 GIS for the determination of bioenergy potential in the centre region of PortugalTanya CJ Esteves Pedro Cabral Jose Carlos Teixeira and Antonio JD Ferreira 16 Use of geospatial data in planning for offshore wind developmentJohn Madsen Alison Bates John Callahan and Jeremy Firestone 17 Social vulnerability assessment through GIS techniques a case study of flood risk mapping in MexicoP Krishna Krishnamurthy and L Krishnamurthy IndexGeospatial information is spatial data concerning a place or in space collected in real time Geospatial techniques together with remote sensing geographic information science Global Positioning System GPS cartography geovisualization and spatial statistics are being used to capture store manipulate and analyze to understand complex situations and to solve mysteries of the universe These techniques have been applied in various fields such as meteorology forestry environmental management agriculture health homeland security etc around the globe This volume presents case studies and examples from various parts of the world and provides a broad overview of various approaches data sets data acquiring monitoring and dissemination methods satellites and sensors tools and techniques used integrating tools techniques and application to various fields for the sustainable management of environmental resources in the context of global environmental change and natural hazards The objective of this book is to provide state of the art information to academics researchers and industry practitioners who are involved or interested in the study use design and development of advanced and emerging geospatial technologies around the world with ultimate aim to empower individuals and organizations in building competencies for exploiting the opportunities of the knowledge society All the chapters are peer reviewed and evaluated and are in inter and multi disciplinary source of information making an effort to link vario.