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Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Remote Sensing Data Preprocessing Technology -- Remote Sensing Extraction Technology of Urban Vegetation Information -- Measurement Technology of Two-Dimensional Urban Green Space -- Measurement Technology of Three-Dimensional Urban Green Space -- Construction Technology of Multi-Scale Perception Model of Urban Green Space -- Evaluation Technology of Remote Sensing in Urban Green Space.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Interdisciplinarity, GIScience, and Socio-environmental Research in Latin America -- Chapter 2. Using Spatial Time-series and Field Data to Understand Cultural Drivers of Land Change: Connecting Land Conflict and Land Change in Eastern Amazonia -- Chapter 3. Crossing Boundaries: Transboundary Geographic Information in the Amazon Borderlands of Peru and Brazil -- Chapter 4. Territorial Implications of Economic Diversification in the Waorani Ancestral Lands -- Chapter 5. New Insights on Water Quality and Land Use Dynamics in the Napo Region of Western Amazonia -- Chapter 6. From Mapping to Guiding: An Emergent Framework for the Multiple Uses of Remote Sensing and GIScience in Socio-Environmental Research in the Peruvian Andes -- Chapter 7. The Use of Remote Sensing in Air Pollution Control and Public Health -- Chapter 8. Human-environmental Interactions and their Impacts on Temperate Forests in the Exploradores Valley in Western Patagonia -- Chapter 9. El Chaltén, Argentine Patagonia: A successful Combination of Conservation and Tourism? -- Chapter 10. GIS Approaches to Environmental Justice in Mexico’s Oil and Gas Production Zones with Implications for Latin America -- Chapter 11. Contributions to Socio-Environmental Research through Participatory GIS in Archaeology -- Chapter 12. Comparing Volunteered Data Acquisition Methods on Informal Settlements in Mexico City and São Paulo: a Citizen Participation Ladder for VGI -- Chapter 13. CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Interdisciplinary GIScience Research on Human-environment Dynamics in Latin America.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1 Geospatial technologies -- The effect of an open educational resource (OER) on student teachers‘ abilities to diagnose students‘ written argumentation skills -- Development of the Online Geospatial Problem-Solving Instrument: Investigating Elementary Students’ perceptual processes in geospatial problem-solving. -- A Spatial Knowledge Infrastructure for the Aegean Archipelago -- A Virtual Window to the World: Using Story Maps for SDG Visibility and Environmental Educatio -- Education for sustainable water consumption in multinational collaboration teachers training: Goals and Challenges -- Connecting Literature and Web Maps: Hungarian writers and poets online -- Part 2: Education, Geography and new Geospatial technologies and tools -- Teaching Geography with a Web GIS Approach -- Education for Sustainability Using Cloud-based Geographic Information Systems at University -- Comparative Dimensions of teaching Geography & History in Austria and in Israel, Migration of Vienna Jewry during the 1930s -- Geographiic Education for the Promotion of Spatial Citizenship: Collaborrative Mapping for Learning About the Local Environment in a Global Context -- Part 3: COVID-19 and post-COVID -19 -- The Art of Geographical Analysis of Covid-19 Related Data -- Development of a Synthetic Index of Social Vulnerability to Covid-19 in the City of Zaragoza (Spain) -- Students’ Satisfaction with Synchronous Online Learning in Times of COVID-19: A Case Study of Greek Geography Students -- Can Climate Crisis Go Viral? A Review of Climate Change Communication Lessons in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Towards a EU’s Sustainable and Humane Border Regime -- Part 4: Gepspatial technologies and application in agriculture -- Pest Management with Precision Farming Tools: the Case of the Olive Fly (Bactrocera Oleae) -- Sustainable Networking Solutions in Remote IoT Environments: Use Cases, Challenges and Solutions for Smart Agriculture.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Land use and land cover change: advancing with geographic information science -- Chapter 2-Land use in Ontario: challenges in land use classification -- Chapter 3-The golden horseshoe: land use from past to present -- Chapter 4-First nations reserves in Ontario: effects of urban sprawl -- Chapter 5-Archaeological heritage and urban sprawl: corridors of change -- Chapter 6-The cityscape: urban growth in Toronto -- Chapter 7-Land use and health perception -- Chapter 8-Environmental injustice in southern Ontario -- Chapter 9-Happiness and land use. .

Description / Table of Contents: Development of Reconfigurable Low-Power Measuring IoT Device for Detecting Common Radioactive Elements for Earth and Space Applications -- RECO-FSCA: Reconfigurable Low-Power Implementation of Fprime-Software for CubeSats Applications -- Autonomous Payload Imaging System for Remote Sensing Applications -- Plasma Space Debris Removal System – NIRCSAT-X -- Heat Energy Storage Module for Thermal Management of Small Satellites In Low Earth Orbit Thermal Conditions.

Description / Table of Contents: Cramped spaces, w(r)iggle room and everyday politics: An introduction -- Part 1: Everyday geographies of scholar activism -- Should I stay or should I go? Academic tempered radicalism in the era of ecological crisis -- Towards ‘minor’ methodologies or crisis as method -- Part 2: Repertoires of research methodologies and fieldwork experiences -- The sympoietic orchard: Everyday ways of co-creating an orchard -- Researching urban coworking spaces: Everyday life and reflexivity during the fieldwork -- Beyond the club: A feminist poetic inquiry to reimagine festive spaces and practices of the electronic scene in Paris -- Mapping sifikile – A place of home: Methodological reflections on hope from a coal frontier -- Madame Ruetabaga’s prefigurative politics at the urban fringes of Grenoble -- Digital practices on social media: New perspectives on the production of space and geopolitical inquiry -- Part 3: Embodied negotiations: Agency, survival, care -- Life at the margins: Women’s everyday practices as resistance in a working-class neighbourhood in Barcelona -- Digitalisation of working space: Women working from home in Turkey -- Home, work and everyday life: Gender dynamics in a mining city -- Epilogue.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Introduction -- PartI. Mapping for the Goals on Poverty, Hunger, Health, Education, Gender, Water, and Energy -- Chapter2. Open Data Addressing Challenges Associated with Informal Settlements in the Global South -- Chapter3. Leveraging Spatial Technology for Agricultural Intensification to Address Hunger in Ghana -- Chapter4. Rural Household Food Insecurity and Child Malnutrition in Northern Ghana -- Chapter5. Where is the Closest Health Clinic? YouthMappers map their communities before and during the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter6. Cross-continental YouthMappers Action to Fight Schistosomiasis Transmission in Senegal -- Chapter7. Understanding YouthMappers Contributions to Building Resilient Communities in Asia -- Chapter8. Activating Education for Sustainable Development Goals through YouthMappers -- Chapter9. Seeing the World Through Maps: An Inclusive and Youth Oriented Approach -- Chapter10. Youth Engagement and the Water-Energy-Land Nexus in Costa Rica -- Chapter11. Power Grid Mapping in West Africa -- Chapter12. Mapping Access to Electricity in Urban and Rural Nigeria -- PartII. Youth Action on Work, Leadership, Innovation, Inequality, Cities, Production and Land -- Chapter13. Stories from Students Building Sustainability Through Transfer of Leadership -- Chapter14. Drones For Good: Mapping Out the SDGs Using Innovative Technology in Malawi -- Chapter15. Assessing YouthMappers Contributions to the Generation of Open Geospatial Data in Africa -- Chapter16. Mapping Invisible and Inaccessible Areas of Brazilian Cities to Reduce Inequalities -- Chapter17. Visualizing YouthMappers Contributions to Environmental Resilience in Latin America -- PartIII. Marking a Path to Goals on Sustainable Communities, Consumption, Climate, Oceans, Land, and Justice -- Chapter18. Youth Engagement and Participation in Mitigating Perennial Flooding in Kampala, Uganda using Open Geospatial Data -- Chapter19. Sustainable Mobility through Knowledge Exchange and Collaborative Mapping of Cycling Infrastructure: SIGenBici in Medellín, Colombia -- Chapter20. Wastesites.io: Mapping Solid Waste to Meet Sustainable Development Goals -- Chapter21. Mapping for Resilience: Extreme Heat Deaths and Mobile Homes in Arizona -- Chapter22. Mapping for Women’s Evacuation Plans during Climate-induced Disasters -- Chapter23. Sustainable Development in Oceania and the Role of Mapping for Women -- Chapter24. Sustainable Coastal Communities in the Anthropocene: Lessons from Crowd-Mapping Projects in Colombia -- Chapter25. Collaborative Cartography Making Riparian Communities Visible in Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil -- Chapter26. Open Mapping with Official Cartographies in the Americas -- Chapter27. Cities of the Future Need to be Both Smart and Just: How We Think Open Mapping Can Help -- PartIV. Supporting YouthMappers to Advance the SDGs through Institutions and Partnerships -- Chapter28. Mentoring Experiences in YouthMappers Chapters -- Chapter29. The Ecosystem Where YouthMappers Live and Thrive -- Chapter30. A Free and Open Map of the Entire World: Opportunities for YouthMappers within the Unusual Partnership Model of OpenStreetMap -- Chapter31. Youth and Humanitarian Action: Open Mapping Partnerships for Disaster Response and the SDGs -- PartV. The Paths Ahead -- Chapter32. Generation 2030: The Strategic Imperative of Youth Civic and Political Engagement -- Chapter33. Reflecting on the YouthMappers Movement.

Description / Table of Contents: Topic 1. Environmental Quality Monitoring -- Chap1: Applications of Remote Sensing for Air Pollution Monitoring in Thailand: An Early Warning for Public Health -- Chap2: A novel evaluation of air pollution impact from stationary emission sources to ambient air quality via time-series Granger causality -- Chap3: Groundwater Recharge, Monitoring and Finding Suitable Areas for Groundwater Recharge in Northeast Thailand -- Topic 2. Environmental Changes and Health -- Chap4: Health benefits of air pollution reduction during the COVID-19 lockdown period in Thailand using a machine learning algorithm -- Chap5: Satellite-Derived Vegetation Indices as A Criterion for Assessing Green Exposure that is Related to Human Health Burdens -- Chap6: Five common myths about land use change and infectious disease -- Topic 3. Data and Methodological Issues for Health Studies -- Chap7: Geospatial Environmental Data for Planetary Health Applications -- Chap8: Delineating zones of disease diffusion from the amenity-sharing network in Peninsular Malaysia -- Chap9: Approaches for spatial and temporal-spatial clustering analysis in avian influenza outbreaks -- Chap10: Detecting urban form using remote sensing: spatiotemporal research gaps for sustainable environment and human health.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. The Green City: General Concept -- Chapter 1. What Does “The Green City” Mean?(Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 2. What Is Urban Nature? (Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 3. What is Urban Green and Blue Infrastructure? (Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 4. The Green City: General Concept (Jürgen Breuste) -- Part II. The Nature Concept – of What Urban Green Nature Consists of Part Front Matter -- Chapter 5. The Four Urban Natures Approach (Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 6. Urban Woodlands - Remnants of Pristine Landscape (Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 7. Public Urban Parks - Designed Urban Green Spaces (Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 8. Urban Gardens – The Private Urban Green (Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 9. Urban Waters – The Urban Blue Infrastructure (Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 10. New Urban Wildernesses - Novel Urban Ecosystems (Jürgen Breuste).

Description / Table of Contents: Overview Of Geospatial Science And Technology -- Geospatial Appraisal Of Vegetation Health And Air Quality Of Delhi During Pre And Post Lockdown Phase Through Multi-Criteria Decision Model -- Pandemic Effect Of Covid-19: Identification, Present Scenario And Preventive Measures -- Impact Of Lockdown (Covid-19) On Air Pollution In India -- Impact Of Covid-19 Pandemic On Environmental Awareness: A Case Study Of Hyderabad City -- Examination Of Radiation Distribution And Its Relation With Stress Degree Day Index In Some Crops Of Yamne River Catchment In Arunachal Pradesh During Pre And Post Covid Times -- Covid 19 And Its Impact On Urban Health Care System -- Impact Of Covid-19 Pandemic On Education Sector Of Kashmir Valley Its Challenges And Future Prospects -- A Study On Socio-Economic Impact Of Covid 19 Pandemic On Tour Operators Of Vishakhapatnam City, Andhra Pradesh -- A Study On Problems Faced By The Street Vendors In Hyderabad City Post Covid-19 Pandemic.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction to Participatory Mapping Software and Evaluation -- Chapter 2: Collector for ArcGIS -- Chapter 3: Field Papers -- Chapter 4: GeoODK -- Chapter 5: Maptionnaire -- Chapter 6: KoBoToolbox -- Chapter 7: SeaSketch -- Chapter 8: Sapelli -- Chapter 9: Survey123 -- Chapter 10: Ushahidi -- Chapter 11: Mapeo -- Chapter 12: Terrastories -- Chapter 13: Portable OpenStreetMap -- Chapter 14: MapBox -- Chapter 15: Trends and Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Natural heritage sites and space observation -- Chapter 2. Space monitoring technology and method of natural heritage sites -- Chapter 3. Technology and method of fine information extraction of animal habitat elements -- Chapter 4. Analysis of changes of key environmental parameters of land surface characteristics of giant panda habitat -- Chapter 5. Spatial observation and assessment of ecological environment change of giant panda habitat -- Chapter 6. The evaluation model of long-term monitoring and restoration of ecological environment by remote sensing after earthquake -- Chapter 7. Fine-Scale Evaluation of Giant Panda Habitats and Countermeasures against the Future Impacts of Climate Change -- Chapter 8. Suggestions for sustainable development of giant panda habitat.

Description / Table of Contents: Recontextualizing Sustainability: Regulative and Instructional Discourse -- Learning culture, Competencies and Consequences for Sustainability -- Dealing with Uncertainty in a Transformative Education for Sustainable Development -- Education for Sustainable Development in a Culture of Digitality -- School Geography as Radical Global Citizen Education -- Sustainable Contradictions? The Prospect for an Eco-socialist School Geography -- Bringing Sustainability into the Classroom -- Subject Matter Knowledge and Sustainability – Implications for Classroom Instruction -- Teaching with Geographical Situations to Practice Sustainability -- Geography Education for Sustainable Development through Problem-based Learning -- Factors Affecting Geography Pre-service Teachers’ Perception about Education for Sustainable Development -- Geographical Knowledge and (Education for) Sustainable Development in Geography Curricula -- Preparing Pre-service Teachers for Practicing Sustainable Geographies through Online Technology Integration -- Practicing students SDG Strategies through Fieldwork – Exploring Student Perspectives on Green Urban Planning Models in a Nature Park -- Opportunities and Challenges in Geography Education to Practice Sustainability Education.

Description / Table of Contents: Humanistic study of urban images -- Delhi: Evolution of an urban region -- Images of Delhi in Indo-Anglian and Hindi literary works -- Delhi: As an idea -- Old Delhi (Shahjehanabad) and adjacent regions -- New Delhi and neighboring colonies -- Four authors and their perceptions of Delhi -- Epilogue.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -- Inequities and inequalities in access to care. Chapter 2 -- Gender and health. Chapter 3 -- Disability and health. Chapter 4 -- Food security. Chapter 5 -- Water and sanitation. Chapter 6 -- Mining and health. Chapter 7 -- Climate change and health. Chapter 8 -- Ageing and health. Chapter 9 -- Non-communicable diseases. Chapter 10 -- Infectious diseases. Chapter 11 -- Social interventions and health. Chapter 12 -- Environmental intervention and health. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. UNVEILING THE SMART CITY: How Smart is it? -- Chapter 2. SMART CITIES AND SUSTAINABILITY: How Smart City helps with sustainability -- Chapter 3. SMART CITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE: How Smart City can help cool the planet -- Chapter 4. SMART CITIES AND REGENERATIVE APPROACHES: How design with Smart City tech can regenerate cities -- Chapter 5. SMART CULTURAL AND INCLUSIVE CITIES: How Smart City can help urban culture and inclusion -- Chapter 6. SMART CITIES AND THE URBAN ECONOMY: How Smart City can integrate good urban economies -- Chapter 7. CONCLUSIONS: Redefining Smart Cities.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -Theoretical Foundations of Total Socioenvironmental System (TSES) -- Chapter 2-Analytical Frameworks of TSES -- Chapter 3 - Building Temporally Compatible TSES Dataset -- Chapter 4 - Empirically investigating time-series causality between grassland productivity and socio-environmental factors, Inner Mongolia as a Case Study -- Chapter 5 - Empirical evaluation of urban sustainability from underlying causal structures and legacy effects: The prefecture cities in China as a Case Study -- Chapter 6 - Constructing Spatially Compatible TSES Dataset: Examining Urban Declining in Southeast Michigan as the case study -- Chapter 7 -Empirically examining spatial processes of urban declining: Southeast Michigan as the case study -- Chapter 8 - Modeling grassland deterioration considering spatial variations and time-lag effects at a finer geographical scale -- Chapter 9 - Innovations, Limitations, and Future Directions of TSES.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Structural state surveying for transportation infrastructure -- Dynamic surveying in autonomous driving -- Indoor and underground space measurement -- UAV 3D measurement -- Coastal zone survey -- Outlook. .

Description / Table of Contents: Re-thinking cities and the urban: from the global to the local -- From the new world to multiple possible worlds: political geography, geopolitics and border studies -- New and emerging pathways for transport geography -- Geography and geographers in place and time: a view from the international geographical union’s commission on the history of geography -- Innovative development of modern agricultural geographic engineering -- Integrating Geography for Global Sustainability and the Earth's Future: the role of International Geographical Union Commission on Geography of Future Earth -- Global change and human mobility in the Anthropocene -- Contribution of Geography and Geospatial Technology to Cope with Hazards and Risks: Implications of GIS Development in Japan -- Marginality issues in a time of world reorganization -- Land Use and Land Cover Changes in a Global Environmental Change Context -- The Contribution of Geography -- Coastal Systems: the dynamic interface between land and sea -- Advances in karst geomoprhology and hydrogeology research in the last decade and its future direction for karst land use planning -- Achievements and challenges of geographical research in Africa -- Issues and dilemmas of local and regional development in geographical research.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Flood Susceptibility Mapping Using a Frequency Ratio Model: A Case Study of Chai Nat Province, Thailand -- Chapter2. Influence of Hydrosphere Material Knowledge on the Attitude of High School Students in Conducting Water Conservation in Brebes Regency, Indonesia -- Chapter3. Optimizing multi-reservoir systems with the aid of genetic algorithm: Mahanadi reservoir project complex,Chhattisgarh -- Chapter4. Monitoring of Morphological Change in Lam Phachi River Using Geo-Informatics System -- Chapter5. Developing Scenario of Plastic Waste Leakage in Jakarta Hydrology Environment using Seasonal Data Condition and Socio-Economic Aspects -- Chapter6. Measurement of PM10, PM2.5, NO2, and SO2 Using Sensors -- Chapter7. Encoding Social Media Wording Indexes to Analyse PM2.5 Problem Perception -- Chapter8. Noise mapping of different zones in an urban area during Deepawali festival -- Chapter9. Digital Twins in farming with the implementation of agricultural technologies -- Chapter10. A cross-comparison between Rice Crop Monitoring System: GISTDA and International Asian Harvest mOnitoring system for Rice (INAHOR): JAXA -- Chapter11. Evaluation MODIS and Sentinel-2 data for detecting crop residue burned area -- Chapter12. Machine Learning Approach with Environmental Pollution and Geospatial Information for Mapping Poverty in Thailand -- Chapter13. Integration of Machine Learning Algorithms and Time-series Satellite images on Land Use/Land Cover Mapping with Google Earth Engine -- Chapter14. Sugarcane and Cassava Classification using Machine Learning Approach based on Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Data Analysis -- Chapter15. Google Earth Engine algorithm for Evaluating the Performance of Landsat OLI-8 and Sentinel-2 in Mangrove Monitoring -- Chapter16. Estimation of Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Stock using Remote Sensing Data for Sakaerat Environmental Research Station, Thailand -- Chapter17. Determination of Land Suitability for Oil Palm with Multi-Dimension Decision Support using Analytic Network Process (ANP) in Southern Thailand -- Chapter18. Land use change and ecosystem service variations in Huai Luang River basin, Udon Thani province, Thailand -- Chapter19. The Ability to Access Attractions for the Elderly from Public Transport in Bangkok Metropolis.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction to QGIS -- Chapter 2: Plugins -- Chapter 3: Data Acquisition -- Chapter 4: Data Preprocessing -- Chapter 5: Data Management -- Chapter 6: Data Visualization -- Chapter 7: Data Analysis -- Chapter 8: Integration of Remote Sensing Data with Other Spatial Datasets -- Chapter 9: Integration of QGIS with Google Earth Engine (GEE) -- Chapter 10: Case Studies and Examples of Earth Remote Sensing Applications Using QGIS.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- The Physical Environment -- Biological Environment -- The First People -- People on the Landscape -- Making a Living -- Life at Home -- Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Locally Refined Splines -- Adaptive surface Fitting with Local Refinement: LR B-spline Surfaces -- A Statistical Criterion to Judge the Goodness of Fit of LR B-splines Surface Approximation -- LR B-splines for Representation of Terrain and Seabed: Data Fusion, Outliers, and Voids -- LR B-spline Surfaces and Volumes for Deformation Analysis of Terrain Data -- Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Climate and weather: impact on the body -- Chapter 3: Climatic norms, definition periods. Methods for determining the areas of biological comfort/discomfort -- Chapter 4: Adaptation to marine climate -- Chapter 5: Influence of weather and climatic conditions on health Adaptation to the marine climate of Russian regions -- Chapter 6: Non-specific prevention of pre-disease states and diseases when adapting to a maritime climate -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Desert Locust Breeding Area and Migration Path in Africa and Asia -- Chapter 3 Monitoring of Desert Locusts in East Africa -- Chpater 4 Monitoring of Desert Locusts in West and South Asia -- Chapter 5 Remote Sensing Monitoring System of Desert Locust and its Application -- References.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction of Geographic Information System -- Referencing and Coordinate Systems in GIS -- GIS Data Models -- Data Input in GIS -- Data Visualization and Output -- Spatial Data Analysis -- Non-spatial Data Management -- Applications of GIS in Urban Policy/Planning/Management -- Monitoring and Modelling of Urban Land Use Changes -- Simulating Future Urban Growth using Cellular Automata-Markov Chain Models -- Identification of Potential Sites for Housing Development Using GIS Based Multi-Criteria Evaluation Technique -- Urban Green Space Analysis and Potential Site Selection for Green Space Expansion -- A Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Alternative Landfill Site Selections Using Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach -- Urban Flood Susceptibility Modelling of Srinagar using Novel Fuzzy Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Network (Fuzzy MLPNN) -- Assessment, Mapping and prediction of Urban Heat Island. .

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Triestino Geographical Thought -- Chapter 1. Becoming geographer in Trieste: autobiographical essay, with a reflection on the nature of Geography -- Chapter 2. Living in the borderlands: political geography, geopolitics and advocacy in the Triestino School of Geography during the long 20th Century -- Part 2: Historical Geographyas Method: Producing Geopolitics From The Julian Region -- Chapter 3 Urbanization processes in a transnational area. An application of the rank-size rule to the Austrian Littoral (1849-1918) -- Chapter 4. Gorizia Nova, aka “New Gorizia:” a Euro-city on the border between Italy and Slovenia. A recommendation for local level territorial changes after Slovenia joined the European Union in 2004. Chapter 5. Inland areas and border regions: a geopolitical interpretation. Comparing the marginalization of Trieste and Umbria as an example of the dynamics of borderlands vs. remote inland areas. Part 3: From Trieste To The World: Deploying Triestino Geographical Thought To Grand Geopolitics In Europe And Beyond -- Chapter 6. The reshaping of German-Yugoslav Space from a middle European Point of view. Paper presented at the 2nd IBRU Conference, held in Durham, UK, on July 18-21, 1991 -- Chapter 7. Europe. The many reasons of an epoch-spanning crisis. A long-term geo-historical and geo-economics analysis of the obstacles to European integration -- Chapter 8. A century of struggles. A comparison of multiple geopolitical agendas in Europe, the US and beyond -- Chapter 9. Cycles of geopolitical (dis)order, as determined by interactions between spatial systems. A theoretical model of the systemic drivers of geopolitics.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. General State of the Real Estate Market in Ukraine -- Chapter 2. Real Estate Market. Trends and Developments -- Chapter 3. Practical Aspects. Development of a Method of Modeling the most attractive location of a Real Estate object -- Chapter 4. Determination of the Optimal location of the Real Estate object -- Chapter 5. Factors of Influence on the Real Estate Market -- Chapter 6. Prospects for the Development of the Real Estate Market in Ukraine -- Chapter 7. The Situation on the Real Estate Market because of Russia's War against Ukraine. .

Description / Table of Contents: Data And Urban Poverty: Detecting And Characterising Slums And Deprived Urban Areas In Low-And Middle-Income Countries -- Investigation Of Ecological Sustainability Through The Landscape Approach Of Geospatial Technology: Study From New Town Project In Eastern India -- Advanced Remote Sensing For Sustainable Decent Housing For The Economically Challenged Urban Households -- Impact Of Uncontrolled Tourism Development On Landscape Ecology Of Purba Medinipur Coastal Region, West Bengal: A 4-C Framework And Swoc Analysis -- Impact Of Urban Heat Island: A Local-Level Urban Climate Phenomenon On Urban Ecology And Human Health -- Identification Of Environmental Epidemiology Through Advanced Remote Sensing Based On Ndvi -- Assessment Of Land Utilization Pattern And Their Relationship With Surface Temperature And Vegetation In Sikkim, India -- Monitoring Land Use And Land Cover Change Over Bhiwani District Using Google Earth Engine -- Image And Perception Of Royal Heritage And Eco-Space Of The Medium Towns In India: Reflection From Burdwan Royal Heritage Site -- Governance And Floodplain Extent Changes Of Yamuna River Floodplain In Megacity Delhi -- Assessing Urban Compactness Using Machine Learning And Earth Observation Datasets: A Case Study Of Kolkata City -- Analysis Of Ecological Vulnerability Behind The Land Conversion From Agriculture To Aquaculture Of Purba Medinipur District In West Bengal, India -- Environmental Change Analysis Using Remote Sensing And Gis: A Study Of Upper Baitarani Basin, Odisha -- Mapping Urban Footprint Using Machine Learning And Public Domain Datasets.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Remote Sensing -- Chapter 3: Special Features of Remote Sensing Big Data -- Chapter 4: Remote Sensing Big Data Collection Challenges and Cyberinfrastructure and Sensor Web Solutions -- Chapter 5: Remote Sensing Big Data Computing -- Chapter 6: Remote Sensing Big Data Management -- Chapter 7: Standards for Big Data Management -- Chapter 8: Implementation Examples of Big Data Management Systems for Remote Sensing -- Chapter 9: Big Data Analytics for Remote Sensing-Concepts and standards -- Chapter 10: Big Data Analytic Platforms -- Chapter 11: Algorithmic Design Considerations of Big Data Analytics -- Chapter 12: Machine learning and data mining algorithms for geospatial big data -- Chapter 13: Modeling, prediction, and decision making based on remote sensing big data -- Chapter 14: Examples of remote sensing applications of big data analytics-fusion of diverse earth observation data -- Chapter 15: Examples of remote sensing applications of big data analytics-agricultural drought monitoring and forecasting -- Chapter 16: Examples of remote sensing applications of big data analytics-land cover time series creation -- Chapter 17: Geospatial big data initiatives in the world -- Chapter 18: Challenges and opportunities in remote sensing big data.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction -- 2 Basic terms and general principles of information processing -- 3 Basics from computer science -- 4 Spatial objects and reference systems -- 5 Digital spatial data: Data mining, geographic reference data and VGI -- 6 Standards and interoperability of spatial data -- 7 Visualization of spatial information -- 8 Data organization and database systems -- 9 Geographic information systems -- 10 Remote sensing and digital image processing.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction to ArcGISPro -- Chapter 2: Data Classification and Layout in ArcGISPro -- Chapter 3: Data Acquisition -- Chapter 4: Coordinate Systems and Projections -- Chapter 5: Working with Geodatabase -- Chapter 6: Data Editing and Topology -- Chapter 7: Geoprocessing -- Chapter 8: Site Suitability and Data Modelling -- Chapter 9: Geocoding -- Chapter 10: Working with Raster -- Chapter 11: Spatial Interpolation -- Chapter 12: Watershed Delineation -- Chapter 13: Special Statistics -- Chapter 14: Network Analyst -- Chapter 15: 3-D Analyst -- Chapter 16: ArcGIS Online and Web Maps.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Tipping Points: A Survey of the Literature -- Chapter 3. Governance & Resilience: A Stakeholder Agency Perspective -- Chapter 4. Spatial Determinants of Tipping Points Governance: Beyond Stakeholder Agency -- Chapter 5. Governing Social Tipping Points in the EU’s Periphery: A Conceptual Framework & Methodology -- Chapter 6. Resilience in Migration, Climate Change and Geopolitics: A Case of the EU’s Periphery -- Chapter 7. Resilience of the EU’s Periphery vis-à-vis Social Tipping Points: Policy Recommendations -- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Health, Diseases and Development - An Introduction to Health and Medical Geography in Africa -- Part 1: Nature, Perspectives and Methods -- Chapter 2: Philosophy, Questions and Methods in Health and Medical Geography in Africa -- Chapter 3: Medical Geography in Nigeria – History, Debates and State of the Discipline -- Chapter 4: Traditional and Non-Traditional Data Sources useful in Research in African Health and Medical Geography -- Chapter 5: Mixed Research Methods for Buruli Ulcer Prevention in Southern Benin using Geographic Health Surveys -- Part 2: Environment, Health and Disease -- Chapter 6: Spatial Analysis of Antiretroviral Therapy among Adults in Zimbabwe HIV: Geo-additive Bayesian Survival Models -- Chapter 7: Mobility and Disease Diffusion in East Africa – The Case of HIV/AIDS, Ebola and Covid-19 -- Chapter 8: Management and prevention of HIV infection in migrant miners in Lesotho and South Africa: A capabilities approach -- Chapter 9: Geographical Analysis of Malaria in Nigeria - Spatiotemporal Patterns of National and Subnational Incidence -- Chapter 10: Antimicrobial Resistance in a Changing Climatic Context: An Emerging Public Health Threat in Africa -- Part 3: Health and Wellbeing -- Chapter 11: Climate-Related Diseases and Health Impacts of Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 12: Spatial Distribution and Pattern Analysis of Women Sexual Violence in Tanzania -- Chapter 13: Associating Poverty with Gender-Based Violence (GBV) against Rural and Poor Urban Women (RPUW) in Cameroon -- Chapter 14: Menstrual Hygiene Management in the Context of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Policies – A Case of Schools in Nigeria Health -- Chapter 15: The Nexus between Development and Early Childhood mortality in Nigeria -- Part 4: Location and Health Behaviour -- Chapter 16: Sanitation, Health Seeking Behaviour and Substance Use among Street Children in Ibadan, Nigeria -- Chapter 17: Human Geophagy (Soil Ingestion): Biochemical Functions and Potential Health Implications -- Chapter 18: Spatial Analysis of Breastfeeding Practices and Childhood Morbidity Episodes in Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study of a National Dataset -- Chapter 19: Test-Tube Transnationalism: Fertility Migrants and Reproductive Refugees and the Provision of Care Across Southern Africa -- Part 4: Health Inequalities and Healthcare Planning -- Chapter 20: Location, Accessibility and Socioeconomic Correlates of Child Immunisation Coverage in Nigeria -- Chapter 21: Approaches to Defining Health Facility Catchment Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 22: Access to Health Facility and Frequency of Antenatal Care Visits in Malawi using Bivariate Copula Regression Modelling -- Chapter 23: Territorial Study of the Distribution of Doctors in Gabon.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Earth’s Gravity Field and Some of its Properties -- Chapter 2. Elementary Potential Theory -- Chapter 3. Spherical Harmonics -- Chapter 4. Normal Gravity Field and Reference Earth Ellipsoid -- Chapter 5. Stokes’ Theory and Beyond -- Chapter 6. Gravity Reduction -- Chapter 7. Molodensky’s Theory and Beyond -- Chapter 8. Fundamentals of Computation and Determination -- Chapter 9. Flattening and Gravity Inside the Earth.

Description / Table of Contents: I General Part -- Part A - Ecological Basics (Autoecology) -- Part B - Ecological Basics (Synecology) -- Part C - Ecological Systems and Ecosystem Biology -- II Special Part -- Part D - ZB I: Zonobiome of the evergreen tropical rainforest or equatorial humid diurnal climate -- Part E - ZB II: Zonobiome of savannas, deciduous forests and grasslands of the tropical summer rainfall region -- Part F - ZB III: Zonobiome of hot deserts or subtropical arid climate -- Part G - ZB IV: Zonobiome of hardwoods or Mediterranean winter rainfall regions -- Part H - ZB V: Zonobiome of laurel forests or warm temperate humid climate -- Part I - ZB VI: Zonobiome of winter barren deciduous forests or temperate nemoral climate -- Part J - ZB VII: Zonobiome of steppes and cold deserts or arid temperate climate -- Part K - ZB VIII: Zonobiome of hardwood forests or temperate arid climate. Part K - ZB VIII: Zonobiome of taiga or cold temperate boreal climate -- Part L - ZB IX: Zonobiome of tundra or arctic climate -- Part M - Summary, conclusions -- III Final part.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Key determinants of spatial management systems in Europe (Paulina Legutko-Kobus, Maciej Nowak) -- Chapter 2. Determinants and effects of planning practice in Poland (PrzemysławŚleszyński) -- Chapter 3. Spatial development law in Poland and related problems (Maciej Nowak) -- Chapter 4. Determining the interdependence (including barriers and challenges) between legal regulations and planning practice (PŚ, MN PLK) -- Chapter 5. Summary and conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Potential of Geospatial Data in Healthcare for Society 5.0 -- Geospatial Health Data Analytics for Society 5.0 -- Relevance of spatio-temporal data visualisation techniques in healthcare system -- GIS and Remote Sensing for public health -- Infectious diseases and their tracking in GIS.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Building the analytic toolbox-from spatial analytics to spatial statistical inference with geospatial data -- Chapter 2-Spatial data integration to better represent pollutants for environmental health studies -- Chapter 3-Spatial health data analysis-data driven and model driven approaches. Chapter 4 -- Machine learning, big data and spatial tools-a combination to reveal complex facts that impact environmental health -- Chapter 5-Spatial aspects of seasonality and infectious diseases -- Chapter 6-Earth observation data and technology to model influenza epidemiology -- Chapter 7-Trend of geospatial technology in environmental health application-from public health to individual healthcare -- Chapter 8-Geospatial technology to analyze human well-being and its eco-social determinants -- Chapter 9-Spatial components of population health -- Chapter 10-Geospatial technology in medical geology -- Chapter 11-Geospatial technology in planning and operations of telehealth programs -- Chapter 12-Integrating GIS, toxicology, microbiology and geochemistry-a multidisciplinary integrated approach for better understanding the public health issues.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Binary Variable Versus Binary Variable -- Chapter 2: Binary Variable Versus Rank Variable -- Chapter 3: Application of the Total Operating Characteristic -- Chapter 4: Categorical Variable Versus Categorical Variable -- Chapter 5: Application to Categorical Error Assessment with Sampling -- Chapter 6: Multiple Spatial Resolutions for Categorical Variables -- Chapter 7: Application to Categorical Temporal Change -- Chapter 8: Interval Variable Versus Interval Variable -- Chapter 9: Application to Interval Temporal Change -- Chapter 10: Indices of Agreement -- Chapter 11: Vector Variable Versus Vector Variable -- Chapter 12: Commandments to Avoid Deadly Sins.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Remains of the shipwreck: an introduction to the Iberian maritime and underwater landscape -- Chapter2. A paradigm of inter and multidisciplinary research: The ForSEAdiscovery project as a case study -- Chapter3. Life and Death in the Spanish Carrera de Indias: ships, merchants, cargoes and routes -- Chapter4. Iberian Ships of the Early Modern Period -- Chapter5. Ship Types in Portugal -- Chapter6. The Iberian Peninsula between two Seas: Shipbuilding Revolution in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, 14th–15th centuries -- Chapter7. An insight into Mediterranean naval architecture in the 16th century through the texts of Nicolò Sagri (1538–1571). A comparative perspective with Ibero-Atlantic shipbuilding -- Chapter8. From the Baltic Sea to Andalusia: North European timber (and traders) in 16th-century Seville -- Chapter9. Supplying timber for His Majesty’s fleets: forest resources and maritime struggle in Portugal (1621–1634) -- Chapter10. Historical Documents as sources for the study of shipbuilding in Spain -- Chapter11. Iberian Documents and Treaties on shipbuilding -- Chapter12. Maritime vocabulary in texts: Fray Joseph de Ledesma (1701) -- Chapter13. GIS application on 16th-18th centuries Iberian Shipwrecks.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Drawing the lines, knowing the borders. An overview of recent scholarship on boundary-making and modern regimes of territorialization -- Part I. Boundary Treaties and Joint Commissions: Theoretical Foundations and Praxis on the Ground -- 2. Modern State Sovereignty as Geometric Purification of Territory. Delimitation Theories and Practices in the 1864 Spanish-Portuguese Boundary Treaty -- 3. Delimitation of the Spanish-Portuguese Border and the Controversy over La Contienda -- 4.From a Line on a Map to Realities on the Ground. The French-German Joint Boundary Commission at Work (1871-1877) -- 5. Mexican Geographer Engineers and the Demarcation of Mexico's Borders -- Part II. Contesting the Naturalness of Borders. Cartographic Practices, Geographical Knowledge and Territorial Issues -- 6. Borders on Paper, Borders on the Ground. Boundary Commissions Under the Treaty of Madrid and Their Role in the Reinvention of the Rio de la Plata Frontier (1752-1759) -- 7. Rights of Use vs. Natural Boundary: Demarcation of the Iraty Forest Massif (Western Pyrenees, 17th-19th Centuries) 8. A Water Borderline Adrift Between France and Spain. The Bidasoa and the Bay of Higuer at the End of the 19th Century -- 9. Demarcation of the Border of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco (1913–1931): Chronicle of Failure -- Part III. Concluding Essay -- 10. Borders at the Global Turn.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Surveying the Earth through the ages -- Geodesy in the 21st century - Global reference systems and modern geodetic space observation techniques -- Our planet in focus - Phenomena of global change -- Social relevance of high-precision measurement of our planet from space.

Description / Table of Contents: PART I - INTRODUCTION, POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, ETHNIC GROUPS AND RELIGIONS -- Introduction -- I.1. General geographical features of Albania -- I.2. Historical and Political Geography -- I.3. Ethnic Groups and Religions -- I.3.2. Religions -- PART II - LANDSCAPE OF ALBANIA -- II.1. Geological construction -- II.2. The relief -- II.3. Climate -- II.4. Waters -- II.5. Soils -- II.6. Flora and fauna -- II.7. Albanian natural and cultural heritage -- PART III - DEMOGRAPHICS -- III.2. Sociocultural features -- III.2. Sociocultural features -- PART IV - THE ECONOMY -- PART V - GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS -- INDEX.

Description / Table of Contents: Application of RS-GIS-R for soil-land resources assessment, monitoring, and modelling -- Assessment of soil health and monitoring -- Soil and sediments pollution -- Microbiology of Soil and Sediments -- Soil Salinity and Sodicity -- Soil erosion and contamination from agricultural activities -- Digital soil mapping and carbon stock modelling -- Soil degradation and Risk assessment -- Agricultural Soil Pollution -- Risk Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination -- Environmental Pollution of Soil and Anthropogenic Impact -- Soil pollution by industrial effluents and solid wastes -- Environmental impact and risk assessment -- Open source satellite data and GIS for soil resources mapping and monitoring -- Bioremediation in soil resources management and land use planning.

Description / Table of Contents: 1-Adolescent Health in the MENA Region: Determinants and Distribution -- 2-Adolescent nutrition: a focus on the MENA -- 3-Addressing Social Determinants of Oral Health among Adolescents from MENA -- 4-Knowledge, Attitude and Practice in relation to Vitamin D Deficiency among older adolescents -- 5-Activity among Adolescents from the MENA -- 6-Exploring Factors for Predictive Modelling of Obesity and Overweight in Adolescents: Application to MENA Region -- 7-Determinants of Knowledge in relation to Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents in the Middle East and North Africa Region -- 8-Growth Assessment in Adolescence: Measurement and Interpretation for the Middle East and North Africa -- 9-Oral health of adolescents in the MENA region -- 10-Demographic and Geographic Variations in Respiratory and Allergic Conditions among Adolescents in the United Arab Emirates -- 11-The Epidemiology of Diabetes Mellitus among in adolescents and their determinants in from the Middle East and North Africa Region -- 12-HIV and sexual health in MENA’s adolescents.

Description / Table of Contents: The logic of landscape pattern language -- The theoretical evolution and innovation of landscape pattern language -- landscape space units as the foundation of pattern language -- The C-3P analytical framework of landscape space -- The framework of landscape pattern language -- The space and design vocabulary of landscape pattern language -- spatial relations and reasoning of landscape pattern language -- Networks syntax and scaling of landscape pattern language -- Prospect of landscape pattern language using in practice.

Description / Table of Contents: Geographic Uniqueness of the Sierra Nevada in the Context of the Mid-latitude Mountains -- Biotic Uniqueness of the Sierra Nevada as a Hotspot of Biodiversity -- Singular Cultural Landscapes of the Sierra Nevada -- Scientific Knowledge Generated in the Sierra Nevada: Bibliographic Review in WOS Since 1970 -- The Geological Setting -- Glacial Geomorphology of the Massif -- Reconstruction of Past Environments Using Lake Sedimentary Records -- Modern Periglacial Environment and Permafrost -- Variability and Recent Trends -- Snow Dynamics, Hydrology and Erosion -- Altitudinal Migrations and Changes in the Composition of High Mountain Plant Communities -- Altitudinal Migrations and Changes in the Composition of Animal Communities -- Dynamics of Forest Systems Under Land Use and Climatic Change Scenarios -- Resilience of Montane Ecosystems to Major Disturbances (fires) -- Migrations Rivers -- High Mountain Lakes as Remote Sensors of Global Change -- Paleolimnological Indicators of Climate Change -- Atmospheric Inputs and Drastic Alterations in Food Webs and Ecosystems Processes -- Remote Sensors Monitoring of Functional Aspects of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems -- Managing the Uniqueness of Sierra Nevada Ecosystems Under Global Change: Adaptive Projects -- Incorporation of Traditional Knowledge in Agrobiodiversity for a Sustainable Mountain Economy -- Data Model, E-infrastructure Services and Virtual Research Environments (VRE) -- Advancing Open Science in Sierra Nevada: Current Citizen Science Campaigns -- Filling the Gaps in Research, Management and Social Connection.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-The wonderment of touching, sensing and naming the more-than human world -- Chapter 2-Being in and through aesthetic forms of expressions reimagining a future world -- Chapter 3-Awareness and subjectification of the more-than-human world -- Chapter 4-Exploring the world in sensuous ways, creating new narratives and asking urgent and severe questions -- Chapter 5-Social Justice and Action Competences in Classroom Practice: The future ‘skills’ of citizenship -- Chapter 6-Introducing disorienting dilemmas: Provoking actions -- Chapter 7-Creating spaces for negotiation, imagining and listening: Stretching situated moments of critical literacy in whole class discussion -- Chapter 8-Addressing anxiety: To linger, confirm and give hope -- Chapter 9-Transformative learning: Creating new identities -- Chapter 10-Take a stance: Facilitating students’ decision-making.

Description / Table of Contents: 1-Adolescent Mental Health in the MENA Region and the link with Policy and Programming -- 2-There is no Health Without Mental Health: The Middle East and North Africa -- 3-A Silent Epidemic of Depression among Adolescents in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Emerging Tribulation -- 4-Understanding mental illness stigma in Arab youths’ everyday lives -- 5-Developing and Implementing Youth Friendly Public Policies: A perspective into the Arab Region -- 6-Adolescent health in Saudi Arabia: Policy dimensions -- 7-Health Policies of Adolescents in the Middle East and North Africa: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How Do We Strategize in the Age COVID-19?.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Introduction and Methodology -- Chapter2. Ancient Indian Design and Town Planning Principles as a Frame for Case Studies -- Chapter3. Other Interpretive Frameworks -- Chapter4. Shiva Temples -- Chapter5. Deliberations.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Why this Topic? -- Chapter 2-Global Warming Impact on Earth Systems -- Chapter 3-The IPCC Reports on Global Warming and Land Changes -- Chapter 4.NOAA Operational Environmental Satellites for Earth Monitoring -- Chapter 5-New Remote Sensing Vegetation Health Technology -- Chapter 6-Cause of Climate Warming -- Chapter 7- Land Cover Changes from Intensive Climate Warming -- Chapter 8-Global Warming Crop Yield and Food Security -- Chapter 9-Remote Sensing Malaria During Global Warming -- Chapter 10-Malaria Performance Trend During 1981-2022 -- Chapter 11-Remote Sensing Drought Watch and Food Security -- Chapter 12-Has Drought Intensified During 1981-2021 Global Warming?

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Framework -- Chapter 3. Case study -- Chapter 4. Discussion -- Chapter 5. Conclusions -- Appendices.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. BauKlima/ BuildingClimate -- Chapter 2. BauStoff/ Building Matters -- Chapter 3. KlimaStoff/ (Future) Climate Matters -- Bibliography.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface.-Mine geological environment: An overview.-Multimodal remote sensing science and technology.-Deep learning technology for remote sensing intelligent interpretation.-Remote sensing interpretation signs of mine land occupation type -- Mine remote sensing dataset construction for multi-level tasks -- Mine target detection by remote sensing and deep learning -- Mine remote sensing scene classification by deep learning -- Mine land occupation classification based on machine learning and remote sensing images -- Mine land occupation classification based on deep learning and remote sensing images -- Concluding remarks.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Critical planning and design: Walking through roots and dissenting imaginations -- Part 1: Roots -- Giancarlo Paba’s trilogy of Luoghi comuni (Common Places, 1998), Movimenti urbani (Urban Movements, 2003), Corpi urbani (Urban Bodies, 2010): Influential Italian ‘critical planning’ thinking -- Ildefonso Cerdà, Teoría General de la Urbanización, 1867: An innovative approach -- L’Ordine politico della Comunità (The Political Order of Community) 2014: Concrete community and territorial principle in Adriano Olivetti’s thought -- All the layers of an ecological commitment at the frontier: Ian McHarg, Design with Nature, 1969 -- L' Architecture de survie (1978) is back talking to EU cities in crisis: The provocative message by Yona Friedman as a key for the present and future urban agenda -- Part 2: Planning pathways -- John Friedmann, The Good Society (1979): Panning pathways for a just society -- David Harvey’s Urbanization of Capital (1985): Why it helped me so much -- A place in the world? Places, Cultures and Globalization, 1995. Doreen Massey’s lessons: Is the world really shrinking or is the geography of the world teaching us openness and diversity? -- Patsy Healey and Collaborative Planning (2005): Re-thinking democracy in the ‘reasoning in public’ arena -- Utopian tension: Sandercock’s inspiring journey “Towards Cosmopolis” (1998) -- Zwischenstadt / Inbetween city. Thomas Sieverts, Cities Without Cities: An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt, 2004 -- Part 3: Conceptual frames -- Inquiry and change: The troubled attempt to understand and shape society, 1990: The radical contribution of Charles E. Lindblom’s self-guiding society and probing volitions -- Rediscussing Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia, 1974 -- Property titles to land and issues of distributive justice -- Blade Runner, 1982. Do Androids dream of electric sheep?- Philip K Dick’s science fiction and Maschinenmenschen in Metropolis -- Max Weber, Die Stadt (1922), English edition, Max Weber, The City, edited and traslated by Don Martindale and Gertrude Neuwirth, The Free Press, 1958 -- Antonio Gramsci and the prison notebooks -- Le droit à la ville, 1968: Reading Lefebvre’s the right to the city in planning perspective -- The trouble with Henri: The production of urban space – from theory to research -- Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Mille Plateaux, 1980: "The good use of philosophy" -- Georges Didi-Huberman, La survivance des lucioles (2009). The thickness of time: going beyond the surface of the present to understand contemporary territories.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Challenging a static conception of Heimat -- 2 Heimat: theoretical framework(s) -- 3 Methodological approach -- 4 Insights from migrant biographies on the concept of Heimat -- 5 Heimat: an emotional map of biographical references -- 6 Conclusions on Heimat in the context of international migration.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to Scripting and Programming -- Chapter 2. Basics of programming—Variables, Operators, & Statements -- Chapter 3. Basics of programming—Control Structures -- Chapter 4. Basics of programming—Functions and Objects -- Chapter 5. Reading a Python Script -- Chapter 6. Debugging -- Chapter 7. Introduction to ArcPy -- Chapter 8. Basics of accessing data in ArcGIS -- Chapter 9. Rasters -- Chapter 10. Tables and Cursors -- Chapter 11. Vectors and Geometries -- Chapter 12. Mapping--symbologies -- Chapter 13. Mapping—layouts -- Chapter 14. Creating custom tools -- Chapter 15. Error Handling -- Chapter 16. Creating Custom Classes -- Chapter 17. Putting it all together -- Chapter 18. ArcPy for Web GIS using ArcGIS Online -- Chapter 19. Incorporating External Packages -- Chapter 20. Using Multiple Python Files -- Chapter 21. Developing a Custom Python Package.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -- Brief history of "the beach" in Florida. Chapter 2 -- The legal geography of the beach. Chapter 3 -- The value of the property on/near the beach, despite natural hazard risk. Chapter 4 -- Capturing the beach experience. Chapter 5 -- Assessing public space along Florida beaches: NW FL case study. Chapter 6 -- Sketch mapping accessibility. Chapter 7 -- Explicit territoriality: good/bad fences. Chapter 8 -- Implied territoriality: good/bad neighbors. Chapter 9 -- Mapping the potential of conflict: transboundary viewsheds. Chapter 10 -- Conclusion: bringing it all together. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Refining and (Re)Defining “Place” in Health Research: Interrogating Spatial Knowledges + (Mis)Representations -- Chapter 2. Spatial Knowledge, Representation, + Place-Health Narratives: Youth Photovoice Perspectives on a “Food Desert” -- Chapter 3. Placescapes + Public Housing: Towards a Critical Understanding of ‘Place’ + ‘Placemaking’ in Place-Based Health & Housing Strategies -- Chapter 4. The Real Limits of Imaginary Lines: A Participatory Activity Space Method for Exploring Intergenerational (Dis)Connections Between ‘Place’ and Health -- Chapter 5. Place, Health, and the Geography of Embodiment: Intergenerational Participatory Research for Representation/as Resistance in The Ville -- Chapter 6. Towards Decolonizing Place-Health Research: Placemaking, Power, and the Production of “Place”-Health Knowledge.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction – Surveying the landscape of assessment in geography education -- Binaries and silences in geography education assessment research -- Part I: Assessment related to cross-cutting concepts and skills in geography -- Assessing systems thinking in geography -- Assessment of mapping learning progressions in geography -- Assessing spatial skills/thinking in geography -- Part II: Assessment related to the signature pedagogies of inquiry and fieldwork -- Integrating assessment effectively into international fieldwork: A case study using student-led teaching and learning -- Inquiry-based fieldwork assessment for and as learning in geography -- Part III: Assessment as a social justice endeavour in geography education -- The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): A closer look at US gaps and trends in geography achievement -- Focusing on quality, forgetting inequalities: Assessment within GIS in the geography Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) in South Africa -- Part IV: Future directions for assessment in geography education -- Online adaptive assessment of map skills -- Engaging with conceptual acrobatics: Geography assessment standards and rubrics -- Reflecting on the assessment landscape of primary geography.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. About this book -- Part I. Concepts, data and validation -- Chapter 2. Land Use Cover mapping, modelling and validation. A background -- Chapter 3. Validation of Land Use Cover maps: a guideline -- Chapter 4. Land Use Cover Datasets: a review -- Part II. Data access and visualization -- Chapter 5. Visualization and communication of LUC data -- Chapter 6. Sample data for thematic accuracy assessment in QGIS -- Part III. Tools to validate Land Use Cover maps: a review -- Chapter 7. Basic and Multiple-Resolution Cross Tabulation to validate Land Use Cover maps -- Chapter 8. Metrics based on a Cross-Tabulation matrix to validate Land Use Cover maps -- Chapter 9. Pontius Jr. methods based on a Cross Tabulation matrix to validate Land Use Cover maps -- Chapter 10. Validation of soft maps produced by a Land Use Cover Change model -- Chapter 11. Spatial metrics to validate Land Use Cover maps -- Chapter 12. Advanced pattern analysis to validate Land Use Cover maps -- Chapter 13. Geographically Weighted methods to validate Land Use Cover maps -- Part IV. Land Use Cover datasets: a review -- Chapter 14. Global general Land Use Cover datasets with a single date,- Chapter 15. Global general Land Use Cover datasets with a time series of maps -- Chapter 16. General Land Use Cover datasets for Europe -- Chapter 17. General Land Use Cover datasets for Africa -- Chapter 18. General Land Use Cover datasets for America and Asia -- Chapter 19. Global thematic Land Use Cover datasets characterizing vegetation covers -- Chapter 20. Global thematic Land Use Cover datasets characterizing agricultural covers -- Chapter 21. Global thematic Land Use Cover datasets characterizing artificial covers -- Chapter 22. Supra-national thematic Land Use Cover datasets.

Description / Table of Contents: Part A Basics and Computer Science: -- Modeling of Geographic Information -- Mathematics and Statistics -- Databases -- Encoding of Geographic Information -- Big Data Analytics -- Part B Geographic Information: -- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) -- Change Detection -- Geodesy -- Data Acquisition in Geographic Information Systems -- Remote Sensing -- Surveying -- Geometry and Topology -- Cartography -- Geospatial Metadata -- Standardization of Geographic Information -- Geospatial Web Services -- Geosemantic Interoperability and the Geospatial Semantic -- Registration of Geospatial Information Elements -- Security for Open Distributed Geospatial Information Systems -- Part C Applications: -- Cadastre -- Building Information Modeling -- Location Based Services -- Marine Geographic Information Systems -- Geographic Information Systems in Agriculture -- Geographic Information Systems in Defense -- Geographic Information Systems for Transportation -- Geology -- Geographic Information Systems in Energy and Utilities -- Geographic Information Systems in Health and Human Services -- Open Source Geographic Information Systems -- Smart Cities.

Description / Table of Contents: From Representation to Geocomputation: Some Theoretical Accounts of Geographic Information Science -- On Holo-Spatial Information System -- The Virtual Geographic Environment—More than the Digital Twin of the Physical Geographical Environments -- Big Remote Sensing Data as Curves -- GIScience from the Viewpoint of Information Science -- Towards Place-based GIS -- The Bottom-up Approach and De-mapping Direction of GIS -- The Geography of Geography -- Classification and Description of Geographic Information: a Comprehensive Expression Framework -- On the Third Law of Geography -- Human Mobility and the Neighborhood Effect Averaging Problem (NEAP) -- How to Form and Answer the So What Question in GIScience -- Prospects on Causal Inferences in GIS -- Bayesian Methods for Geospatial Data Analysis.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Dendroarchaeology of shipwrecks in the Iberian Peninsula: 10 years of observations and advances -- Chapter3. Ontography of an Ordinary Shipwreck: Paradox, Appellation, Provenance, Apparition -- Chapter4. Archaeological perspectives during the age of war of religions: the “capitana” and “almiranta” of the Illirica Squadron -- Chapter5. Can we identify the ship through a multidisciplinary approach? The Case of the Ribadeo 1 wreck (c. 1597) -- Chapter6. The Belinho 1 Shipwreck -- Chapter7. Shipwrecks of the Iberian Tradition in the Bay of Cadiz (Andalucía, Spain) -- Chapter8. Iberian Shipwrecks in the Americas. The Case of the Highbourne Cay Wreck -- Chapter9. Underwater Archaeology versus plunder of shipwrecks in the Dominican Republic -- Chapter10. The timbers of the Frigate Santa Maria Magdalena (18th century): An Spanish warship in the History and Archaeology -- Chapter11. Across the Pacific: The Manila galleons in perspective. Notes on the history and archaeology of the transpacific trade -- Chapter12. Ploughing through Global Seas: Maritime Routes and Knowledge in the Spanish Navy at the End of the First Global Age -- Chapter13. The design of European ships’ stock-anchors of the fifteenth into the eighteenth centuries -- Chapter14. A shared sailing: Artillery and ocean warships.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to Spatial Modeling of Flood Risk and Hazard: Societal Implication -- Chapter 2. Flood Susceptibility Mapping Using Morphometric Techniques and GIS -- Chapter 3. Palaeohydrologic Estimates of Flood Discharge of Lower Ramganga River Catchment of Ganga Basin, India Using Slackwater Deposits -- Chapter 4. Flood Risk Zone Identification Using Ground Based Observation and Geospatial Technology -- Chapter 5. Dynamics River Networks and Determination of the Flood Potential in Lower Brahmaputra Valley Using Geoinfromatics -- Chapter 6. Flood Vulnerability Assessment Using AHP and Frequency Ratio Techniques -- Chapter 7. Application of Hybrid Machine Learning Algorithms for Flood Susceptibility Modelling -- Chapter 8. Flash Flood Susceptibility Mapping Using GIS Based AHP Method -- Chapter 9. GIS Based Hydrological and Hydraulic Models to Forecast River Flood Risks and Proposition of Management Measures -- Chapter 10. Large Scale Human Intervention and Estimation of Flood Susceptibility Applying Frequency Ratio Model -- Chapter 11. Flood Induced Transport Infrastructural Losses in India: Regional Assessments -- Chapter 12. Rural-Urban Differential in Flood Vulnerability and Community Preparedness for Flood Management Strategies -- Chapter 13. Application of Geospatial Techniques for Urban Flood Management: A Review.

Description / Table of Contents: The introduction to informed urban environments -- The bigger picture en route to informed urban environments -- How we see now: Traversing a data-mosaic -- The role of information modelling and computational ontologies to support the design, planning and management of urban environments: Current status and future challenges -- Urban adaptation – Insights from information physics and complex system dynamics -- Decoding cool urban forms: Using open data to build a dialogue between microclimate and configurational morphology in urban environments -- From Amsterdam to New Amsterdam to Amsterdam: How urban mobility shapes cities -- urban microclimate spatiotemporal mapping: A method to evaluate thermal comfort availability in urban ecosystems -- Urban ecosystems and nature-based solutions: The role of data in optimizing the provision of ecosystem services -- Smart urban forestry: Is it the future?- Big data and decision support in rural and urban agriculture.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Urban morphology and historical urban landscape conservation and management -- Traditions of urban morphology: opportunities and challenges -- An integrated approach: combining the historico-geographical and the configurational approaches -- Integrated examination of urban form: historicity -- Integrated examination of urban form: historicity and conviviality -- Urban conservation and management practice in China -- An integrated morphological approach to urban conservation and management: The case of Nanjing -- Conclusion: The first step in a journey of a thousand miles.

Description / Table of Contents: Urban resilience approaches and paradigms -- Complex systems methodologies for urban resilience and sustainability, including multi, inter and transdisciplinary approaches -- Tools, indicators and modelling for urban resilience -- Geographic information systems and conceptual information systems -- New approaches in evaluation in context of urban resilience.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: History and Context -- Chapter 2: China's population aging and regional variation -- Chapter 3: Government policies and programs for elderly services: a historical review -- Part 2: Spatial analysis of supply and demand of services for aging persons -- Chapter 4: Living facilities for aging persons -- Chapter 5: Meal services for aging persons -- Chapter 6: Health services -- Part 3: Regional and local case studies -- Chapter 7: Community Services for Aging Person -- Chapter 8: Regional cooperation for nursing home facilities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. How covid changed our daily geographies -- Chapter 2. Geography of the pandemic -- Chapter 3. Defining first- and second-order impacts through maps -- Chapter 4. Quantitative geographical approaches in COVID-19 research: A review on first- and second-order impacts -- Chapter 5. COVID-19’s impact on geospatial data: ethics and values -- Chapter 6. The City and the Pandemic - the Cities’ COVID Mitigation Mapping (C2M2) Program -- Chapter 7. Improving access to health services in Mongolia via open data during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter 8. The inequities in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter 9. The Latine community and COVID-19: nuances, experiences, and data -- Chapter 10. An overview of the impact of COVID-19 in Nepal’s international tourism industry -- Chapter 11. Data and dashboards for measuring the social impact of COVID-19 in African cities -- Chapter 12. COVID-19 and domestic violence complaints in Quito, Ecuador: temporal and spatial patterns and drivers -- Chapter 13. Mapping COVID-19: Should it be based on the incidence rate? A case study in China -- Chapter 14. Regional patterns of the pandemic: a view from Aotearoa New Zealand -- Chapter 15. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples & the COVID-19 pandemic: a spatial and place-based analysis -- Chapter 16. Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on the livelihoods of male commercial Boda-Boda motorists in Uganda -- Chapter 17. Geospatial techniques for mapping the spatial trajectories of COVID-19 -- Chapter 18. Digital geographies and digital surveillance technologies: power and space in the Italian society under control for public health -- Chapter 19. Resilience amid uncertainty: COVID-19 pandemic, the urban informal sector, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 20. Freshwater Resources and COVID-19 -- Chapter 21. Preventing pandemics: earth observations for One Health -- Chapter 22. Enabling Accelerated Research in Times of Need: The National Science Foundation’s Response to COVID-19 in 2020 -- Chapter 23. Conclusion - The consequences of COVID-19 – What’s next?.

Description / Table of Contents: Section 1 – sUAS Basics -- Introduction and outline for book – Konsoer, Leitner, Lewis -- Provide brief history of sUAS and the rapid technological advancements in recent years that have led to drone revolution and close range remote sensing -- Outline of book and intended uses as both a collection of specific research topics in geography and as a teaching tool -- Rules and Regulations for sUAS use in the United States (and/or globally, selected countries?) -- FAA regulations -- Essentials of proper and safe sUAS use -- sUAS Ethics and other considerations (privacy issues) -- Communicating Science with sUAS -- Section 2 – Applications in Human Geography -- Crime Geography (e.g., security, surveillance/monitoring, etc.) -- Sociocultural Geography (e.g., monitoring cultural resources) -- 3D Mapping -- Section 3 – Applications in Physical Geography -- Geomorphology -- Climatology -- Biogeography (e.g., precision agriculture, habitat monitoring, etc.) -- Section 4 – Applications in Interdisciplinary Research -- Environmental Geography (e.g., water quality, algae, land use changes) -- Mississippi River Delta Archaeological Mitigation (MRDAM) (e.g., geomorphology and archaeology – Konsoer et al) -- Disaster Science Management (e.g. search and rescue operations, damage assessment).

Description / Table of Contents: Assessment on the Distribution and Accessibility to Green Spaces in Mexico’s Most Populated Metropolitan Zones -- Geomatics Assessment of Water Resources in a Transboundary Basin -- Geospatial Analysis of Clandestine Graves in Baja California: New Approaches for the Search of Missing Persons in Mexico -- The Geopolitical Repercussions of the Migration Rhetoric of Donald Trump on Mexican Anti-immigrant Speech Online: A Transdisciplinary Approach -- Spatial Analysis of a Forest Socio-Ecological System in Oaxaca, Mexico Based on the DPSIR Framework -- Fourier Transform Based Methods for Unwrapping of Sentinel-1 Interferograms -- Methodology and Relevant Results About an Area-Based Conservation Indicator of Superficial Water Bodies for the Grijalva Basin -- Social Vulnerability Analysis of Three High Mountain Villages at Pico de Orizaba Volcano, Mexico, Using PCA -- Detection of Phoradendron velutinum Implementing Genetic Programming in Multispectral Aerial Images in Mexico City -- Assessment of the Reduction of the Icesnow Coverage at the TransMexican Volcanic Belt Through Empirical Mode Decomposition on Satellite Imagery -- Forest Degradation Estimation Through Trend Analysis of Annual Time Series NDVI, NDM and NDFI (2010-2020) using Landsat images -- Estimating Importation Risk of COVID-19 in Hurricane Evacuations: A Prediction Framework Applied to Hurricane Laura in Texas -- A Dynamic Social Vulnerability Index to COVID-19 in Mexico -- Effects of COVID-19 in Mexico City: Street Robbery and Vehicle Theft Spatio-Temporal Patterns.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Electromagnetic spectral bands used for RS in HC exploration -- Chapter 2-Foundations of multi-spectral image processing -- Chapter 3-Surface elevation and surface texture from microwave radar -- Chapter 4-Surface cover from optical and thermal IR -- Chapter 5-Geomorphology and Mapping -- Chapter 6-Near-surface characteristics from optical, thermal IR and microwave radar -- Chapter 7-Basement depth and texture from radar distance anomalies -- Chapter 8-Mapping of temporal changes -- Chapter 9-Frontier exploration -- Chapter 10-Seismic planning, acquisition and data processing -- Chapter 11-Development and oilfield infrastructure planning -- Chapter 12-Geological analogs. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Unmanned Aircraft Systems and the Nordic Challenges -- Chapter 2. Applying an icing wind tunnel for drone propeller research, validation of new measurement instrument -- Chapter 3. Self-Swarming for Multi-Robot Systems Deployed for Situational Awareness -- Chapter 4. Toward Invisible Drones – An Ultra-HDR Optical Cloaking System -- Chapter 5. Long-Term Autonomy in Forest Environment using Self-Corrective SLAM -- Chapter 6. Future Possibilities and Challenges for UAV-based Imaging Development in Smart Farming -- Chapter 7. Role of Drones in Characterizing Soil Water Content in Open Field Cultivation -- Chapter 8. Ground penetrating radar mounted drones in agriculture -- Chapter 9. A minimalist approach to yield mapping of standing wheat crop with unmanned aerial vehicles -- Chapter 10. Assessment of Crop Yield Prediction Capabilities of CNN using Multisource Data.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Preface -- Section-I : Land Use Land Cover Dynamics -- Section-II: Agriculture water Management.-Section III: Water Resources Assessment and Modelling -- Section IV: Natural Disasters -- Conclusions and Recommendations.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Agricultural Information Needs and Research Priorities for Remote Sensing in South and Southeast Asian Countries (Krishna Vadrevu, Thuy Le Toan, Shibendu Ray and Chris Justice) -- Part I: International, Regional and National Programs in Agriculture -- Chapter 2. South/Southeast Asia Research Initiative and Agricultural Research Projects (Krishna Vadrevu) -- Chapter 3. The NASA Harvest program on Agriculture and Food Security (Inbal Becker-Reshef, Varaprasad Bandaru, Brian Barker,Sylvain Coutu, Jillian M Deines, Bradley Doorn, Gary Eilerts, Belen Franch, Antonio Sanchez Galvez, Mehdi Hosseini1, Michael Humber, Greg Husak, Kaiyu Guan, Christina Justice, John Keniston, Hannah Kerner, Mary Mitkish, Kara Mobley, Blake Munshell, Catherine Nakalembe, Estefania Puricelli, Ritvik Sahajpal, Sergii Skakun, Eric Vermote, Alyssa Whitcraft, Matthew Hansen, Bill Salas, and Christopher Justice) -- Chapter 4. Asia-RiCE: Collaborative framework for Rice Crop Management in Asia (Shinichi Sobue, and Lal Samarakoon, Matthew Steventon, Kei Oyoshi, Thuy Le Toan) -- Chapter 5. Rice Growth Outlook using Satellite-Based Information in Southeast Asia (Kei Oyoshi, Shinichi Sobue, and Shoji Kimura) -- Chapter 6. RIICE – The service and its operational use (Francesco Holecz, Tri Setiyono, Massimo Barbieri, Francesco Collivignarelli, Luca Gatti, Michael Anthony, Renaud Mathieu, Emma Quicho, Aileen Maunahan, Sushree Satapathy, Deiveegan Murugesan, Ponnurangam Ganesan, Alice Laborte, Mary Rose Mabalay, Jovino de Dios, Eduardo Jimmy Quilang, Men Sothy, Pich Rothana, Vang Seng, Ngin Chhay, Chharom Chin, Phuong Do Minh, Hung Bui Vang, Vo Quoc Tuan, Tuong Chi Quang, Vo Quang Minh, Ninh Nguyen Hong, Sellaperumal Pazhanivela, Bernard Zaugg) -- Chapter 7. The Philippine Rice Information System (PRiSM): An operational monitoring and information system on rice (Mary Rose Mabalay, Jeny Raviz, Elmer Alosnos, Massimo Barbieri, Emma Quicho, Jesiree Elena Ann Bibar, Mabel Barroga, Meriam Coñado, Pristine Mabalot, Jean Rochielle Mirandilla, Arturo Arocena, Juanito Maloom, Gerald Bello, Ederlina Cariño, Gina de Mesa, Norlyn Detoito, Harvey Gonzaga, Nonilon Martin, Mitzi Philline Tejada, Mary Jane Vives, Marjie Lastimoso, Darlynne Kaye Bumagat, Henry Cayaban, Michael Barroga, Ruvicyn Bayot, Abel Melquiades Callejo, Neale Marvin Paguirigan, Mary Anne Gutierrez, Gene Christhopher Romuga, Frances Grace Amanquiton, Janica Gan, Ethel Princess Banasihan, Creigton Czar Guevarra, Arnel Rala, Hilario Yonson, Michael Malonzo, Glorie Belle Berja, Consolacion Diaz, Luis Alejandre Tamani, Ronald Gregory Roces, Sonia Asilo, Jovino de Dios, Tri Deri Setiyono, Francesco Holecz, Eduardo Jimmy Quilang, and Alice Laborte) -- Chapter 8. An Initiation of National Institute for Precision Agriculture Research Network: A case of Thailand Research Fund and Thailand Science Research and Innovation (Attachai Jintrawet, Prapaporn Khopaibool, Thongchai Suwansichon) -- Part II: Crop Mapping, Monitoring, Yield and Water Resources -- Chapter 9. Varietal Discrimination, Acreage Estimation and Yield Prediction of Basmati Aromatic Rice in North-Western India Using Satellite Data (Dharmesh Verma, A. N. Singh, Manik H. Kalubarme, G.P. Saroha, Ritesh Sharma and Brajendra) -- Chapter 10. Mapping Smallholder Yields Using Planet and Sentinel-2 Satellite Data (Meha Jain, Weiqi Zhou, Ambica Paliwal) -- Chapter 11. A Data-analytical way of estimating Rice crop Yield: Economic and Water related causative factors (Nilabja Ghosh, M. Rajeshwor, Alka Singh, Satarupa Chakravarty) -- Chapter 12. Rice Monitoring in Southeast Asia Using Earth Observation Satellite Data (Kei Oyoshi, Lal Samarakoon, Shin-chi Sobue, Sotheavy Meas, Men Sothy, Shoji Kimura, Rizatus Shofiyati, Tanita Suepa, Kanjana Koedkurang, Yootthapoom Potiracha6,, Sutinee Sihirunwong, Patiwet Chalearmpong, Panu Nuangjumnong, Damrongrit Niammuad, and Soravis Supavetch, Phung Hoang-Phi,Nguyen Lam-Dao,and Thuy Le Toan) -- Chapter 13. Crop LAI and biomass estimation from different polarization modes of simulated NISAR data (Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Avik Bhattacharya and Y. S. Rao) -- Chapter 14. Pixel-based evaluation of rice production and related greenhouse gas emissions in the Mekong Delta integrating SAR data and ground observations (Hironori Arai, Wataru Takeuchi, Kei Oyoshi, Lam Dao Nguyen, Tamon Fumoto, Kazuyuki Inubushi and Thuy Le Toan) -- Chapter 15. The utilization of satellite data to support wet season rice production policy in Thailand: A review of practices and opportunities (Chitnucha Buddhaboon, Panu Neungchumnong, Thewin Kaeomuangmoon and Attachai Jintrawet) -- Chapter 16. Productivity, damages, and losses of rice in Cambodia: past, present and future trends in the Mekong and Tonle Sap regions (Serey Sok, Hoeurn Cheb, Nyda Chhinh and Pheakdey Nguonphan) -- Chapter 17. Rice growth stage monitoring and yield estimation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta using multi-temporal Sentinel-1 data (Phung Hoang-Phi, Nguyen Lam-Dao, Vu Nguyen-Van-Anh, Thanh Nguyen-Kim, Thuy Le Toan, and Tien Pham-Duy) -- Chapter 18. Agricultural Drought Assessment using Remote Sensing, with special emphasis on India (S. S. Ray, Shalini Saxena, K. Choudhary, Preeti Tahlani and Krishna Vadrevu) -- Chapter 19. Role of remote sensing in assessing total water storage and evapotranspiration for croplands in the Mekong river basin (Venkataramana Sridhar, Syed Azhar Ali) -- Part III: Prediction and Modeling -- Chapter 20. Random forests for early rice yield prediction from time series of remote sensed data (Nguyen-Thanh Son, Chi-Farn Chen, Cheng-Cru Chen) -- Chapter 21. Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Rice production over South and Southeast Asia under CMIP6 climate scenarios (Tzu-Shun Lin and Atul K Jain) -- Chapter 22. Application of Geo-CropSim framework for Rainfed Sugarcane Yield Assessment in Thailand (Varaprasad Bandaru, Pallavi Cherumalli, Sergii Skakun, Kristofer Lasko, Sukunya Yampracha) -- Chapter 23. Crop yield assessment of smallholder farms using remote sensing and simulation modeling (Vinay Kumar Sehgal, Debasish Chakraborty, Rajkumar Dhakar, Joydeep Mukherjee, Rabi Narayan Sahoo) -- Part IV: Agricultural Land Cover/Land Use Changes -- Chapter 24. Agricultural intensity assessment in Punjab India using food security metrics and remote sensing data (Krishna Vadrevu, Emily Casadaban, Aditya Eaturu, Samuel Amborski and Sumalika Biswas) -- Chapter 25. Agricultural intensity assessment in Punjab India using food security metrics and remote sensing data (Bhavani P, Ripan Das, Mariam Jamilah, Vijay P.Kanawade, Chandrashekhar Biradar and P.S. Roy) -- Chapter 26. Nexus of Urbanization and Changes in Agricultural Land in Bangladesh (Mst. Ilme Faridatul, Md. Sarfaraz Gani Adnan and Ashraf Dewan) -- Chapter 27. The Kandyan Home Garden – Sustainable Agricultural Ecosystem in Sri Lanka (A.R. Gunawardena and T.T. Fernando) -- Chapter 28. Agricultural transformation, and deforestation in Shan State, Myanmar (Sumalika Biswas and Krishna Prasad Vadrevu) -- Chapter 29. Agricultural fires in South Asian Countries and Implications (Krishna Vadrevu, Emily Casadaban, Aditya Eaturu and Sumalika Biswas) -- Chapter 30. Agricultural Land-Use Trends in Vietnam 1990 – 2020 (Stephen J. Leisz, Nghiem Thi Tuyen, Ngo The An, Nong Duong, Nguyen Thi Bich Yen) -- Chapter 31. Scenario-Based Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Modeling of Future Agricultural Land Conversion in Dong Thap, Vietnam (Keelin Haynes, Jessica L. McCarty, Stanley W. Toops, Bui Thi Minh Ha, Jarrod W. Brown, Peter Potapov, Svetlana Turubanova, Quyen Nguyen, Peou Touch, and Justin J. Fain) -- Chapter 32. Extreme Development of Dragon Fruit Agriculture with Nighttime Lighting in Southern Vietnam (Shenyue Jia, Son V. Nghiem, Seung-Hee Kim, Laura Krauser, Andrea E. Gaughan, Forest R. Stevens, Menas Kafatos, and Khanh D. Ngo) -- Chapter 33. Agricultural Land Use/Cover Changes in the Vientiane, Laos (Chittana Phompila, Vongphet Sihapanya, Bakham Chanthavong, Sithong Thongmanivong, Phung Van Khoa, Keigo Noda and Krishna Prasad Vadrevu) -- Chapter 34. Color Features Based Model for Land Cover Identification and Agriculture Monitoring with Satellite Images (Shruti Gupta and Dharmendra Singh) -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Spatial Big Data and Urban Analytics -- Preferential Home Search in Urban Settings -- Air Quality Dynamics and Urban Heat Island effects during COVID-19 -- Mass Rapid Transit and Population Dynamics during Covid-19 in Singapore -- A Geospatial analysis of Tweets during Post-Circuit Breaker in Singapore -- Space-Time Analytics of New York City Shooting Incidents -- Spatial and Temporal patterns of Tourist Source Market Emissiveness: A Study of Shanghai, China -- Spatial Perspective of Crime Patterns in Chicago amid Covid-19 -- Geospatial analysis of Grab Trips in Singapore -- Ecological Vulnerability of Nyingchi, Tibet.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 What urban nature is -- 2 How urban nature came into being -- 3 How urban nature exists in the context of nature and culture -- 4 What urban nature accomplishes -- 5 What urban nature accomplishes -- 6 What constitutes urban biodiversity -- 7 What urban nature constitutes in the Green City concept -- What are the paths to a Green City.

Description / Table of Contents: Spatio-temporal variability of channel planform dynamics in response to spatial expansion of brick kilns: a case study of the downstream course of Ichamati River, West Bengal, India -- Assessment of replenishable groundwater resource and integrated water resource planning for sustainable agriculture -- Spatial prediction of flood frequency analysis in a semi-arid zone: A case study from the Seyad basin (Guelmim Region, Morocco) -- Geospatial modeling in the assessment of environmental resources for sustainable water resource management in a Gondia district, India -- Hydrochemical characteristics of groundwater-assessment of saltwater intrusion along Krishna Godavari Delta Region, Andhra Pradesh, India -- Micro level planning for integrated natural resources management and sustainable development: an approach through a micro watershed using geospatial technology -- Ecohydrological perspective for environmental degradation of lakes and wetlands in Delhi -- Prioritization and quantitative assessment of Dhundsir Gad using RS and GIS: implications for watershed management, planning and conservation, Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand -- Assessment of groundwater potential zones and resource sustainability through Geospatial Techniques: a case study of Kamina sub-watershed of Bhima River Basin, Maharashtra, India -- Morphometric analysis of Damodar River sub-watershed, Jharkhand, India, using remote sensing and GIS techniques -- The increasing inevitability of IOT in remote disaster monitoring applications -- Countering challenges of smart cities mission through participatory approach -- Urban growth modelling and prediction of land use land cover change over Nagpur city, India using Cellular automata approach -- Slum categorization for efficient development plan - a case study of Udhampur city, J&K using Remote sensing and GIS -- Urban growth trend analysis using Shannon Entropy approach – A case study of Dehradun City of Uttarakhand, India -- Geospatial approach for mapping of significant land use / land cover changes in Andhra Pradesh -- Assessing the impact of Delhi metro network towards urbanization of Delhi-NCR -- Analysis of urban heat island effect in the Rajkot city using Geospatial Techniques -- Multi spectral remote sensing for urban planning and development -- Analysis Of urban green spaces using geospatial techniques-a case study of Vijayawada urban local body Andhra Pradesh, India -- Magnetic susceptibility and heavy metals contamination in agricultural soil of Kopargaon Area, Ahmadnagar District, Maharashtra, India.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Prologue: Why Physical Geography? -- Part I: Earth history and climate -- Chapter 1: Geological time -- Chapter 2: Earth’s internal heat engine -- Chapter 3: Volcanoes -- Chapter 4: Earth’s external heat engine -- Chapter 5: Climate change is normal -- Part II: Shaping the landscape -- Chapter 6: The landscape beneath our feet -- Chapter 7: Gravity and slopes -- Chapter 8: Flowing water -- Chapter 9: Flowing Ice -- Chapter 10: Coastal processes -- Chapter 11: Landscapes around us.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. The black Sea Basin – Physical and Geographical Conditions -- 2. History of the Research Conducted on the Black Sea -- 3. Morphohydrography and Morphodynamics of the Black Sea -- Influence of the Coastal Relief on the Navigation and Seaborne Trade on the Black Sea -- 5. The Black Sea Basin’s Meteo-climatic Characterization -- 6. Thermohygrometric Regime, Effects on Variation of Temperature and Humidity, Weather Phenomena -- 7. The Influence of Weather and Climate Factors on the Navigation and Seaborne Trade on the Black Sea -- 8. The Specific Hydrological Factors of the Black Sea -- 9. Hydrobiological Elements Specific to the Black Sea -- 10. The Historical, Social, Political, Economic Framework of the Black Sea Basin Influencing Maritime Transportation -- Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Three Scales of the Spatial University -- Chapter 2. U-Spatial: Nexus of the Spatial University -- Chapter 3. Spatial university for service and support -- Chapter 4. Spatial thinking and learning -- Chapter 5. Spatial science and research -- Chapter 6. Future of the Spatial University.

Description / Table of Contents: - Geospatial Machine Learning in Urban Areas: Challenges and Prospects -- Exploratory Analysis and Transformation for Remotely-Sensed Imagery -- Mapping Urban Land Cover using Multi-seasonal Sentinel-2 Imagery, Spectral and Texture Indices -- Mapping Urban Land Cover using Multi-seasonal Sentinel-1 Imagery and Texture Indices -- Improving Urban Land Cover Mapping -- Land Cover Classification Accuracy Assessment -- Appendix.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -- Introduction to Part I: Geo-physical Hazards -- Chapter 2-Determination of the Probabilities of Landslide Events -A Case Study -- Chapter 3-Geoinformatics based analysis of landslide stability - A Case Study -- Chapter 4-Land Degradation and Desertification- A Case Study. Chapter 5 -- River bank erosion mapping using GIS techniques -- Chapter 6-Geo-spatial modeling of Potential soil erosion estimation for better conservation planning -- Chapter 7-Vulnerability and Risk Assessment of the Bengal Coast, India- a GIS approach -- Chapter 8-Seismic hazard, and vulnerability of assessment for the earthquake scenario-A case study -- Chapter 9-Geo-spatial techniques for mapping, monitoring and modeling shoreline to support coastal risk management -- Chapter 10-Introduction to Part II: Hydro-meteorological Hazards -- Chapter 11-Flood susceptibility analysis based on GIS frequency ratio model -- Chapter 12-Meteorological and agriculture drought monitoring –GIS based approach -- Chapter 13-Geospatial technology and agricultural water resources management -- Chapter 14-Land-Use Suitability Modeling for Agricultural Sustainability -- Chapter 15-Recent trends in climate adaptive water resources management -- Chapter 16-GIS based Spatial analysis on flood modeling - A case study -- Chapter 17-Investigating Vulnerability of Ground Water using AHP and GIS Techniques: A Study -- Chapter 18-Flood Risk zone identification using RS & GIS Techniques -- Chapter 19-Groundwater quality delineation based on Fuzzy Comprehensive Assessment Method -- Chapter 20-Introduction to Part III: Bio-physical Hazards -- Chapter 21-Forest Fire Geo knowledge based Modeling using GIS -- Chapter 22-GI based modelling for wildland fire risk assessment -- Chapter 23-Distribution of Urban Crime Analysis Using GPS, and GIS techniques -- Chapter 24-Analysis of Poverty allocation using Geoinformatics -- Chapter 25-Risk and hazards mapping of Social-economic vulnerability Using GIS techniques.

Description / Table of Contents: From the Contents: Geographic Settings -- Spatial Locations of Nepal (Geopolitics) -- Culture, Religion, and Natural Resources -- Population Growth, Migration and Residential Mobility (Literature review and field verifications) -- Demographic Theory and Population Growth -- Fertility, Mortality, and Demographic Transition -- Human-environment relationships -- General Theory of Development and Migration -- Political Ecology of Land Encroachment -- Concepts and Determinants of Migration.

Description / Table of Contents: Landscape archaeology: role of remote sensing and GIS -- Landscape morphology and spatial patterning of archaeological signatures when viewed from above -- The science and technology of remote sensing in context of archaeology -- GIS: an array of exceptional tools for archaeology -- RS and GIS for preservation, conservation and management.