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Description / Table of Contents: Fundamentals of Tree and Vine Physiology -- Mechanical Management of Modern Planar Fruit Tree Canopies -- Orchard Water Management -- Vineyard Water Management -- Pests and diseases management -- Advanced Technologies for Crop-load Management -- Mechanical Harvesting -- Autonomous Platforms -- Management Information Systems and Emerging Technologies -- Economic and Societal Aspects.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Introduction to squirrels of the world and their conservation trends. Chapter 1: The World’s Squirrel Taxonomy -- Chapter 2: Evolution, habitat trends, and extinction rate estimates of the world squirrels -- Part 2: Squirrels of the world in the Anthropocene. Chapter 3: Habitat Trends and the Squirrel-Human Interface -- Chapter 4: A Meta-analysis based on Open Access Big Data Mining of Global Predicted Squirrel Distribution Models with Machine Learning for IUCN Conservation Status and Trend Policy Assessments -- Chapter 5: Squirrels in Cities -- Chapter : Squirrels in the Tropics -- Chapter 7: Squirrels on Islands -- Chapter 8: Tree squirrels in old-growth forests? -- Chapter 9: Can squirrels be used as indicators to identify and protect old-growth forest reserves? -- Chapter 10: Squirrel Economics -- Part 3: Problems and governance in the squirrel world. Chapter 11: Squirrel Hunting Regulations and Enforcement (Or Lack Thereof) -- Chapter 12: Where do the World’s Squirrel Hotspots and Coldspots of 230+ species go with Climate change 2100? -- Chapter 13: Squirrel’s marginalization and modern lack of conservation and poor sustainability outlook as a call to good action -- Part 4: First conclusions and the way forward. Chapter 14: A Conservation Management SWOT analysis for over 300 Squirrels of the World using 132 GIS layers confirming the PESTLE assessment -- Chapter 15: First Conclusions, Success stories, and Calls-to-action for the conservation of the world’s squirrels.

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: Chapter 1: 202 Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Surveying and Mapping in Mines: A Review -- Chapter 2: 147 Traditional and Advanced Techniques for Extraction of Large Dimension Stone Blocks for Rock-cladding and Monumental Purposes -- Chapter 3: 017 Mining-induced Land Subsidence Detected by Persistent Scatterer InSAR: Case Study in Pniówek Coal Mine, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland -- Chapter 4: 156 Slope Stability Evaluation of Fenghuangshan Landfill Under Rainfall Condition: A Case Study -- Chapter 5: 117 Forecasting PM10 Concentration from Blasting Operations in Open-Pit Mines Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System -- Chapter 6: 066 Assessing the Effect of Open-pit Mining Activities and Urbanization on Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Concentration by Using Remote Sensing Imagery. A Case Study in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam -- Chapter 7: 016 Effect of Loading Frequency on the Liquefaction Resistance of Poorly Graded Sand -- Chapter 8: 144 An Automatic Method for Clay Minerals Extraction from Landsat 8 OLI Data. A Case Study in Chi Linh City, Hai Duong Province -- Chapter 9: 009 Evaluation of the Precision of SARAL/AltiKa and Sentinel-3A Satellite Altimetry Data over the Vietnam Sea and Its Surroundings -- Chapter 10: 070 Detection of GNSS-TEC Noise Related to the Tonga Volcanic Eruption Using Optimization Machine Learning Techniques and Integrated Data -- Chapter 11: 149 Stability of Road Embankments on Weak Soils -- Chapter 12: 053 Indirect Georeferencing in Terrestrial Laser Scanning: One-step and Two-step Approaches -- Chapter 13: 196 Technological Solutions for Fly Ash and Red Mud Upcycling Approach the Vietnam's Government Target of Net-zero Carbon By 2050 -- Chapter 14: 153 Pile-soil Interaction Mechanism and Optimization Measures Based on Finite Element Method -- Chapter 15: 055 Determination of Illegal Signs of Coal Mining Expansion in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam From a Combination of Radar and Optical Imagery Mine Production Tracking Platform and Its Initial Application in the Digital Transformation for a Vietnamese Coal Exploitation Company Chapter 21: 163 Shear Strength of Poorly Graded Granular Material in Multi-stage Direct Shear Test -- Chapter 22: 152 High–resolution Seismic Reflection Survey of Young Sediment at Can Gio Coast, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -- Chapter 23: 140 Analysis of Geological Structures by 2D Magnetotelluric Inversion in Bang Hot Spring Area, Quang Binh Province -- Chapter 24: 119 Physicochemical characteristics of the Middle Triassic Limestone in Ha Nam Province, Vietnam and the Ability of Adsorption of Heavy Metal Ions from Aqueous Environments -- Chapter 25: 159 Local Mechanical Behaviors of Steel Box Girder During Skew Incremental Launching -- Chapter 26: 094 GIS Applications in Land Adaptability Mapping for Perennial Industrial Crops in Nghe An Province -- Chapter 27: 083 Land-use and Land-cover Change Detection and Classification to Analyze Dynamics of Dragon Fruit Farming in Sand Dunes Area of Binh Thuan Province of Vietnam -- Chapter 28: 059 Random Forest Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Change Using Sentinel-2 Data in Van Yen, Yen Bai Province -- Chapter 29: 155 Engineering Geological Problems of Foundation Pit Construction in Quaternary Strata: Taking Suzhou Area as An example Chapter 30: 034 Roof Condition Characteristics Affecting the Stability of Coal Pillars and Retained Roadway -- Chapter 31: 194 On the Flow Assurance for Un-Insulated Subsea Pipeline Systems: Application on the Multiphase Pipeline from Pearl Field to FPSO Ruby II Offshore Vietnam -- Chapter 32: 017 Detection of Underground Anomalies by Evaluation of Ground Penetrating Radar Attribute Combination -- Chapter 33: 157 Dynamic Failure Process of Soil Particles at the End of Shield Tunnel Based on Discrete Element -- Chapter 34: 205 Early Triassic Tectonic Evolution in the Northeastern Kontum Massif: New Constrains from the S-type Granite in Ba To Area, Quang Ngai Province, Central Vietnam -- Chapter 35: 035 Proposal of Study on InSAR-based Land Subsidence Analysis as Basis for Subsequent Hydro-mechanical Modeling: A Case Study of the Hanoi City, Vietnam.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Characterisation of Flood Events – Event Separation and Flood Typology -- Chapter 3. Univariate Flood-Type-specific Flood Statistics -- Chapter 4. Multivariate Flood-Type specific Flood Statistics under consideration of tributary impacts -- Chapter 5. Regionalisation of Flood-type specific distributions -- Chapter 6. Main applications of the new methodology -- Chapter 7. Summary and outlook -- Appendix.

Description / Table of Contents: Geometric Reference Frames -- Combined IVS Contribution to the ITRF2020 -- An Experimental Combination of IGS repro3 Campaign’s Orbit Products Using a Variance Component Estimation Strategy -- The Correlations of the Helmert Transformation Parameters as an Additional Auxiliary Diagnostic Tool for Terrestrial Reference Frames Quality Assessment -- Shimosato Co-Location of the SLR and GNSS Stations -- Local Ties at SLR Station Riga -- Datum Problem Handling in Local Tie Surveys at Wettzell and Metsähovi -- Close Range Photogrammetry for High-Precision Reference Point Determination: A Proof of Concept at Satellite Observing System Wettzell -- Frame Accuracy of Combined EPN Weekly Coordinate Solutions -- The Atlantic Network of Geodynamic and Space Stations (RAEGE): A Spanish-Portuguese Infrastructure of Geodetic Stations -- ITRF Densification in Cyprus -- Geodetic Analyses at the National Geographic Institute of Spain -- Large-Scale Dimensional Metrology for Geodesy - First Results from the European GeoMetre Project -- Bureau of Products and Standards: Description and Promotion of Geodetic Products -- Physical Height Systems -- Can an Earth Gravitational Model Augmented by a Topographic Gravity Field Model Realize the International Height Reference System Accurately? -- Assessing Molodensky’s Heights: A Rebuttal -- On the Accuracy of Geoid Heights Derived from Discrete GNSS/Levelling Data Using Kriging Interpolation -- Gravimetric Geoid Modeling by Stokes and Second Helmert’s Condensation Method in Yogyakarta, Indonesia -- A Geodetic Determination of the Gravitational Potential Difference Toward a 100-km-scale Clock Frequency Comparison in a Plate Subduction Zone -- Validation of the Hellenic Gravity Network in the Frame of the ModernGravNet Project -- Global Gravity Field Modeling -- Combined Gravity Solution from SLR and GRACE/GRACE-FO -- Contribution of LARES SLR Data to Co-estimated Earth Geopotential Coefficients -- Determination and Combination of Monthly Gravity Field Time Series from Kinematic Orbits of GRACE, GRACE-FO and Swarm -- Topographic Gravity Field Modelling for Improving High-Resolution Global Gravity Field Models -- The Benefit of Accelerometers Based on Cold Atom Interferometry for Future Satellite Gravity Missions -- Kalman-Filter Based Hybridization of Classic and Cold Atom Interferometry Accelerometers for Future Satellite Gravity Missions -- Gravimetry by Nanoscale Parametric Amplifiers Driven by Radiation-Induced Dispersion Force Modulation -- Earth Rotation -- On the Improvement of Combined EOP Series by Adding 24-hour VLBI Sessions to VLBI Intensives and GNSS Data -- Investigating the Relationship Between Length of Day and El-Niño Using Wavelet Coherence Method -- Estimation of Earth Rotation Parameter UT1 from Lunar Laser Ranging Observations -- Surface Deformation Monitoring -- Determination of a GNSS-Based Velocity Field of the African Continent -- Vertical Land Motion at Tide Gauges Observed by GNSS: A New GFZ-TIGA Solution -- CyCLOPS: A National Integrated GNSS/InSAR Strategic Research Infrastructure for Monitoring Geohazards and Forming the Next Generation Datum of the Republic of Cyprus -- GNSS Positioning -- Dilution of Precision (DOP) Factors for Evaluating Observations to Galileo Satellites with VLBI -- On the Limits of State-of-the-Art GNSS Receivers in Frequency Transfer -- On the Effect of Antenna Calibration Errors on Geodetic Estimates: Investigation on Zero and Double Difference Approaches -- Estimation and Calibration of Codephase Center Correction Using the Empirical Mode Decomposition -- On the Potential of Image Similarity Metrics for Comparing Phase Center Corrections -- Multipath Characterization Using Ray-Tracing in Urban Trenches -- Bounding the Residual Tropospheric Error by Interval Analysis -- Precise Orbit Determination of CubeSats Using Proposed Observations Weighting Model -- Geodetic Atmospheric and Remote Sensing -- Optimal TEC Forecast Models Based on Machine Learning and Time Series Analysis Techniques – A Preliminary Study on the Ring of Fire -- Sensitivity of Shipborne GNSS Troposphere Retrieval to Processing Parameters -- Application of the Total Variation Method in Near Real-Time GNSS Tropospheric Tomography -- Comparison of the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power Parameter in CYGNSS v2.1 and v3.0 Level 1 Data and Its Impact on Soil Moisture Estimation -- Cross-Polarization Correction for Soil Moisture Retrieval Using GNSS SNR Data.

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: 1. Vegetation Fires and Biomass Burning in South/Southeast Asia – An Overview -- Section I: Mapping , Monitoring and Modeling of Vegetation Fires -- 2. Wildfire monitoring using infrared bands and spatial resolution effects -- 3. Status and Drivers of Forest Fires in Myanmar -- 4. Vegetation Fires and Entropy Variations In Myanmar -- 5. Crop residue burning and forest fire emissions in Nepal -- 6. Firewood Burning Dynamics by the Sri Lankan Households: Trends, Patterns, and Implications -- 7. Burnt Area Signal Variations in Agriculture and Forested Landscapes of India - A Case Study Using Sentinel A/B Synthetic Aperture Radar -- 8. Application of Interferometry SAR for Monitoring of Peatland Areas– Case Studies in Indonesia -- 9. Active Fire Monitoring of Thailand and Upper ASEAN by Earth Observation Data: benefits, lessons learned and what still needs to be known -- 10. Detecting Vegetation Regrowth after Fires in Small Watershed Settings Using Remotely Sensed Data and Local Community Participation Approach -- 11. Long-Term Spatiotemporal Distribution of Fire over Maritime Continent and their Responses to Climate Anomalies -- 12. Vegetation Fires in Laos - An Overview -- 13. Vegetation Fires, Fire Radiative Power and Intermediate Fire Occurrence Intensity (IFOI) Hypothesis Testing in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia -- 14. Analyzing fire behavior and calibrating a fire growth model in a seasonal dry tropical forest area -- Section II: Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Air Pollution -- 15. Spatiotemporally resolved pollutant emissions from biomass burning in Asia -- 16. Twenty-year variations of aerosol optical depth over Asia in relation to anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions -- 17. Light Absorption Properties of Biomass Burning Emissions in Bangladesh: Current State of Knowledge -- 18. Remote Sensing of greenhouse gases and aerosols from agricultural residue burning over Pakistan -- 19. A comparative study of energy, emissions and economic efficiency of various cookstoves in Nepal -- 20. Estimation of Ultrafine Particulate Matter Emissions from Biomass Burning Using Satellite Imaging and Burn Severity -- 21. Characteristics of Transboundary Haze and General Aerosol over Pulau Pinang, Malaysia -- 22. Measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions from fire-prone peatlands in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, using ground-based instruments -- 23. Air Pollution Caused by Deep Peatland Fire in Central Kalimantan -- 24. Chemical Speciation of PM0 Emissions from Peat Burning Emission in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia -- 25. GHG emissions estimation from Peatland fires in Indonesia – Review and Importance of Combustion Factor -- 26. Forest Fire Emissions in Equatorial Asia and Their Recent Delay Anomaly in the Dry Season -- Section III: Air Pollution Modeling and Decision Support Systems -- 27. Impact of vegetation fires on regional aerosol black carbon over South and East Asia -- 28. Detection and Modeling of South Asian Biomass Burning Aerosols from both Macro- and Micro-perspective -- 29. Remote sensing of agricultural biomass burning aerosols, gaseous compounds, long-distance transport and impact on air quality -- 30. Agricultural fires in Northeast China: Characteristics, Impacts, and Challenges -- 31. Air Pollution Modelling in Southeast Asia – An Overview -- 32. Trace gases and air quality in Northwestern Vietnam during recurrent biomass burning on the Indochina Peninsula since 0 – Field Observations and Atmospheric Simulations -- 33. Southeast Asian Transboundary Haze in the Southern Philippines, and Meteorological Drivers -- 34. An Operational Fire Danger Rating System for Thailand and Lower Mekong Region: Development, Utilization, and Experiences -- 35. Fires Hotspot Forecasting in Indonesia Using Long Short-Term Memory Algorithm and MODIS Datasets.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter1. Physical Setting of Nile Delta Coast -- Chapter2. Geomorphometric of Nile Delta Coastline -- Chapter3. Coastline Change Detection -- Chapter4. GIS – based Modeling of Sea-Level Rise by the end of 21th century -- Chapter5. Coastal Erosion Hazard Mapping -- Chapte6. Multi-Criteria Coastal Vulnerability Assessment -- Conclusion and Recommendations.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. Multi-hazards monitoring -- Chapter 1. Evaluating the Multi Hazards Threats Due to Aridity, Sea Level Upsurge in the Coastal Areas of North Tamil Nadu, South India -- Chapter 2. Active Tectonics and Associated Channel shifting pattern of Neora river basin, Darjeeling Himalaya -- Chapter 3. Estimating Soil Loss Rate and Sediment Yield of the Proposed Ngololweni Earth Dam, Kingdom of Eswatini -- Chapter 4. Flood susceptibility mapping using GIS and multi-criteria decision analysis in Dibrugarh district of Assam, North-East India -- chapter 5. Effects of climatic hazards on agriculture in the Teesta basin of Bangladesh -- Chapter 6. Mizoram, the capital of landslide: A review of articles published on landslides in Mizoram, India -- Chapter 7. Deployment of Geostatistical and Geospatial Technology for Groundwater Quality Vulnerability Assessment Using Hydrogeochemical Parameters: A Case Study of NCT Delhi -- Chapter 8. A Literature Review of the Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Land Surface Temperature and Air Quality of India -- Chapter 9. Seasonal and Inter-Annual Variation of Chlorophyll and Sea Surface Temperature in Northern and Southern Arabian Sea, India -- Chapter 10. Application of a geospatial based subjective MCDM method for flood susceptibility modeling in Teesta River basin, West Bengal, India -- Chapter 11. Flood Frequency Analysis of Baitarani River using three probability distributions -- Chapter 12. Application of Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method to flood risk assessment at Sub-Himalayan region using geospatial data: A case study of Alipurduar district, West Bengal, India -- Chapter 13. Remote Sensing and GIS Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Case Study from Kegalle District, Sri Lanka -- Chapter 14. Landslide Susceptibility Evaluation And Analysis: A Review On Articles Published During 2000 To 2020 -- Chapter 15. Assessment of the social impact of arsenicosis through groundwater arsenic poisoning in Maldah district -- Chapter 16. Ground water depletion zonation using Geospatial technique and TOPSIS in Raipur District, Chhattisgarh, India -- Part-II. Multi-hazards Management -- Chapter 17. Terrain Sensitivity guided and People’s Perception based Risk Area Management of the hills of Darjeeling district, India -- Chapter 18. Wastewater treatment in India- a new perspective -- Chapter 19. Adaptation to climate change in agriculture at Teesta basin in Bangladesh -- Chapter 20. Land use/Land cover change detection through the spatial approach: a case study of the Badiadka panchayath, Kerala -- Chapter 21. Application of AHP and Geospatial technology in Groundwater potentiality mapping: A Case Study from Tamil Nadu, India -- Chapter 22. Expected Climate-Induced Alterations in Sugarcane Yield Distribution and Its Agronomic Adaptation Strategies -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: The Scientific Discovery of Merapi: From Ancient Javanese Sources to the 21st Century -- Physical Environment and Human Context at Merapi Volcano: A Complex Balance Between Accessing Livelihoods and Coping With Volcanic Hazards -- Merapi and Its Dynamic 'Disaster Culture' -- The Geodynamic Setting and Geological Context of Merapi Volcano in Central Java, Indonesia -- Crustal Structure and Ascent of Fluids and Melts Beneath Merapi: Insights From Geophysical Investigations -- Geological History, Chronology and Magmatic Evolution of Merapi -- The Godean Debris Avalanche Deposit From a Sector Collapse of Merapi Volcano.

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: Introduction -- An Assessment of Dry Animal Dung to Power Generation and Investigation of A Possible Solar-Biogas Synergy -- An Assessment of the effects of Environmental factors on postharvest storage of some crops cultivated in Kaduna -- Analysis of Garment Manufacturing Process: A Case study (SUR Military and Civil clothing Factory) -- Application of Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process for Replan of Omdurman Islamic University Main Campus to ensure Sustainable Environment -- Biological Nitrogen Removal of Monoethanolamine (MEA) from Petrochemical Wastewater using Activated Sludge Process -- Biological Organic Removals of Monoethanolamine (MEA) in an Activated Sludge System -- Bioremediation of Domestic Wastewater Using Pistia Stratiotes and Lemna Minor Plants -- Comparative Review of Global and Malaysian Green Building Rating Systems: Literature review -- Determination of Quality Parameters of Biodiesel from Feedlot Manure for Optimization of Production Process Conditions -- Developing performance dashboard for operational KPIs of water distribution network -- Development of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Predicting Water Quality Parameters for Effective Project Management in A Complex River System.

Description / Table of Contents: Modern Methods of Rock Mass Characterisation and Rock Fall Monitoring: A Review -- Rock Mass Characterization and Rockfall Monitoring: Traditional Approaches -- Criteria of the Prehistoric Rock Avalanches Identification and Discrimination -- Stability Assessment of Markundi Hills Using Q-slope, SMR and Simulation Tools -- Geotechnical Investigation of Landslide in Ooty, India -- Geomechanical and Kinematic Stability Analysis of Unstable Slopes (near 9th km stone) on Palani – Kodaikkanal Ghat Section in Tamil Nadu -- Geological and Geotechnical Studies of Nungkao Landslide along Imphal-Jiribam National Highway, NH-37, Manipur, India -- Stability Assessment of Lateritic Soil Slope along NH-66, Ratnagiri Maharashtra, India -- Rockfall Hazard: A Comprehensive Review of Current Mitigation Practices -- Debris Flow Hazard in India: Current Status, Research Trends, and Emerging Challenges -- Early Warning System for Rainfall Induced Landslide – A Laboratory Prototype Model -- Study and Instrumental Monitoring of Landslides at the "Russkie Gorki" Site in the Mzymta River Valley, Sochi Region, Russia -- Application of Scoops3D and GIS for Assessing Landslide Hazard in Trung Chai Commune, Sapa, Vietnam -- Landslide Susceptibility Assessment using Frequency Ratio Model in Turung Mamring, South District of Sikkim, India -- Mapping of Annual Ground Displacement using Remote Sensing Methods for Critical Slopes along the Bhagirathi River in Uttarakhand, India -- Landslides Inventory of Active Ramgarh Thrust Zone through Image Processing and GIS Techniques in Sikkim, India -- Landslide Susceptibility Zonation Mapping using Frequency Ratio, Information Value Model, and Logistic Regression Model: A Case Study of Kohima District in Nagaland, India -- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Technology for Slope Hazard Assessment, Monitoring, and Post Failure Management -- Landslide Hazard Assessment Using Machine Learning and GIS -- Social and Economic Impacts of Kotropi Landslide on National Highways of Himalayas – A Case Study. .

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Terrestrial, Shipboard and Airborne Gravimetry -- Measurement of Absolute Gravity and Deflection of the Vertical at Sea -- Multi-scenario Evaluation of the Direct Method in Strapdown Airborne and Shipborne Gravimetry -- Improving Gravity Estimation Accuracy for the GT-2A Airborne Gravimeter Using Spline-Based Gravity Models -- Gravimetric Studies in the Sea of Japan -- About Identification of Instrument Error Parameters for a Gravity Gradiometer -- Numerical Model of Moving-Base Rotating Accelerometer Gravity Gradiometer -- New Algorithm for Gravity Vector Estimation from Airborne Data Using Spherical Scaling Functions -- Results of Astro-measurements of the Deflection of Vertical Using the New Observation Technique -- Observations with gPhone Gravimeter in Moscow -- Part II: Absolute Gravimetry -- On Uncertainties of Laser Interferometric Absolute Ballistic Gravimeters due to Magnetic Effects in the Free-Fall Gravity Measurements -- Evaluation of Systematic Errors in the Compact Absolute Gravimeter TAG-1 for Network Monitoring of Volcanic Activities -- Design of New Launch and Interferometer Systems for the IMGC-02 Absolute Gravimeter -- Twelve Years of High Frequency Absolute Gravity Measurements at the UK’s Space Geodesy Facility: Systematic Signals and Comparison with SLR Heights -- Part III: Relative Gravimetry and Applications -- Studying the Evolution of Resolution Capabilities and Approximation Accuracy of Global Models by Spectral Characteristics -- The Role of Non-tidal Atmospheric Loading in the Task of Gravity Field Estimation by Inter-satellite Measurements -- Formation of Self-consistent Navigational Gravity Maps of Local Areas and Joint Assessment of Their Navigation Quality -- Methods of Bistatic GNSS-radio Altimetry for Determining Height Profile of the Ocean and Their Experimental Verification -- Absolute and Relative Gravity Measurements at Volcanoes: Current State and New Developments Under the NEWTON-g Project -- The Effect of Measurement Preprocessing in the Gravity-Aided Navigation -- Sensitivity of Algorithms for Estimating the Gravity Disturbance Vector to Its Model Uncertainty.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence for Urban Environmental Studies -- Chapter 2. A Systematic Review on the Application of Geospatial Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Urban Growth Modeling -- Chapter 3. Urban Expansion Monitoring Using Machine Learning Algorithms on Google Earth Engine Platform and Cellular Automata Model: A Case Study of Raiganj Municipality, West Bengal, India -- Chapter 4. Multi-Temporal Dynamics of Land Use Land Cover Change and Urban Expansion in the Tropical Coastal District of Kozhikode -- Chapter 5. Land Use Land Cover Change Modeling and Forecasting in Mumbai City by Integrating Cellular Automata and Artificial Neural Network -- Chapter 6. Monitoring Urban Sprawl Using Geo-Spatial Technology: A Case Study of Kanpur City, India -- Chapter 7. Studying Urban Growth Dynamics in Indo–Gangetic Plain -- Chapter 8. Monitoring and Prediction of Spatiotemporal Land Use Land Cover Change Using Markov Chain Cellular Automata Model in Barisal, Bangladesh -- Chapter 9. Urban Change Detection Analysis Using Big Data and Machine Learning: A Review -- Chapter 10. Urban Green and Blue Spaces Dynamics – A Geospatial Analysis using Remote Sensing, Machine Learning and Landscape Metrics in Rajshahi Metropolitan City, Bangladesh -- Chapter 11. Quantifying the Impact of Urban Greenspace Pattern to Land Surface Temperature: Evidence from an Urban Agglomeration of Eastern India -- Chapter 12. Urban Effects on Hydrological Status and Trophic State in Peri-Urban Wetland -- Chapter 13. Integrated Urban Decarbonization Planning Tool for Global Cities -- Chapter 14. Perception of Ecosystem Services from Urban Green Space: A Case from An Urban and A Peri-Urban Green Space in English Bazar Urban Agglomeration, Eastern India -- Chapter 15. Monitoring Spatio-Temporal Reduction of An Urban Wetland Using Landsat Time Series Analysis: A Case Study of Deepor Beel, Assam, India -- Chapter 16. GIS-Based Methodology and World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) For Mapping Local Climatic Zones: A Study of Kolkata -- Chapter 17. Air pollutants-induced environmental critical zones in capital city of India -- Chapter 18. Nexus Between Anthropogenic Heat Flux and Urban Heat Island -- Chapter 19. Impact of Urbanisation on Land Use Land Cover Change and Land Surface Temperature in a Satellite Town -- Chapter 20. Identifying the Flood Hazard Zones in Urban Area Using Flood Hazard Index (FHI) – A Case of Capital City of India -- Chapter 21. An Assessment of Traffic Noise Level in Agartala Municipal Corporation Using Geo-Spatial Technology in Tripura, India -- Chapter 22. Solid Waste Management Scenario of Raiganj Municipality, West Bengal, India -- Chapter 23. Integration of Advanced Technologies in Urban Waste Management -- Chapter 24. Rethinking the Urban Form and Quality of Walking Experience Using Geospatial Technology -- Chapter 25. A Remote Sensing and GIS Based Approach for Assessment of Drinking Water Quality and Its Association with Land-Use Land-Cover in Azamgarh City, India -- Chapter 26. Urban Planning in Perspective of UN Sustainable Development Goal – 11 Using Geospatial Technology: A Case Study of Kolkata Megapolis (India) -- Chapter 27. An Introduction to Big Data and its Possible Utility in the Urban Context -- Chapter 28. Rethinking Progress in Approaches and Techniques for the Urban Environmental Studies.

Description / Table of Contents: In Memoriam -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Foundations of geopedology -- Chapter 2. Theoretical framework -- Chapter 3. Relations between geomorphology and pedology: brief review -- Chapter 4. The geopedologic approach -- Chapter 5. The pedologic landscape: organisation of the soil material -- Chapter 6. The geomorphic landscape: criteria for classifying geoforms -- Chapter 7. The geomorphic landscape: classification of geoforms -- Chapter 8. The geomorphic landscape: the attributes of geoforms -- Part II. Approaches to soil-landscape patterns analysis -- Chapter 9. Knowledge is power: where Digital Soil Mapping needs geopedology -- Chapter 10. Geodiversity and Geopedology in a logarithmic universe -- Chapter 11. Algorithms for quantitative Pedology -- Chapter 12. Interaction of geological and pedological processes in the genesis of soils with gypsum, northern Patagonia, Argentina -- Chapter 13. Use of soil maps to interpret soil-landform assemblages and soil-landscape evolution -- Part III. Methods and techniques applied to pattern recognition and mapping -- Chapter 14. Digital soil texture maps of Argentina and their relationship soil-forming factors and processes -- Chapter 15. Synergistic use of radar and optical image data for improved land use and land cover assessment: a case study in the north of Entre Rios province (Argentina) -- Chapter 16. Landslide susceptibility mapping using supervised learning methods - case study: southwestern Colombia -- Chapter 17. Polygenic vertisols and “hidden” vertisols of the Paraná river basin, Argentina -- Chapter 18. Mapping gilgai micro-relief and its impact on dryland agricultural landscapes using time series of NDVI derived from Sentinel-2 imagery -- Part IV. Applications in land degradation and geohazard studies -- Chapter 19. Gully erosion analysis. Why geopedology matters? -- Chapter 20. Soil erosion assessment and mitigation scenarios based on Geopedology in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina -- Chapter 21. Adequacy of soil information resulting from geopedology-based predictive soil mapping for assessing land degradation: case studies in Thailand and Iran -- Chapter 22. Exploring the contribution of geopedology to the implementation of national frameworks for land degradation neutrality -- Part V. Applications in land use planning and Policy -- Chapter 23. Geo-pedological approach for land use planning: case studies from India -- Chapter 24. Geopedologic information, foundation for soil conservation: Land evaluation, land use allocation and associated conservation practices -- Chapter 25. The relevance of geopedology for policy making and soil security -- Chapter 26. Significance of land cover change for soil regulating ecosystem services using Maine’s Climate Action Plan as a case study -- Chapter 27. Upscaling the integrated Terroir zoning through Digital Soil Mapping disaggregation: a case study in the designation of origin Campo de Borja -- Part VI. Synthesis -- Chapter 28. Concluding remarks and outlook.

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: 1-Using the GIS of regional boundaries to analyse historical data on population and GDP -- 2-The urbanization process: Covering the evolution of 7,269 cities in Europe, 1870-2020 -- 3-The spread of railways in Europe: 1830-2020 -- 4-Main roads in Europe: from 1835 to the first motorway network -- 5-European ports : a location analysis -- 6-A combined view of the impact of transport infrastructure on population distribution and urbanization processes in Europe -- 7-Using Historical Aerial Photographs to Study Long Term Landscape Dynamics -- 8-The Transport Revolution on Land and Sea: Fishing and Railways in Great Britain, Spain and Portugal, 1840-1914 -- 9-Mapping one century of accessibility on the French railway network, 1830-1930 -- 10-The Expansion of Mail Service and Railways in Britain and France, 1840-1914 -- 11-The Historical Economic Geography of Worker Welfare Ratios and Skill Premiums Across 603 Cantons of Southwest France based on ca. 1857 L’enquete Agricole Archival Data -- 12-The uses of census data to study the evolution of two indicators of human development: infant mortality and fertility in Europe -- 13-The use of urban cartography to analyse the spread of cities through history -- 14-Identifying historical landscapes and cultural heritage using GIS.

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. Rotational Raman scattering through narrow-band interference filters: investigating uncertainties using a new Rayleigh scattering code developed within ACTRIS -- Chapter 2. Performance of Low-Cost, Diode-Based HSRL System with Simplified Optical Setup -- Chapter 3. Sensitivity Study on the Performance of the Single Calculus Chain Aerosol Layering Module -- Chapter 4. Particle Complex Refractive Index From 3+2 HSRL/Raman Lidar Measurements: Conditions of Accurate Retrieval, Uncertainties and Constraints Provided by Information About RH -- Chapter 5. Field Testing of a Diode-Laser-Based Micro Pulse Differential Absorption Lidar System to Measure Atmospheric Thermodynamic Variables -- Chapter 6. SEMICONDUCTOR LIDAR FOR QUANTITATIVE ATMOSPHERIC PROFILING -- Chapter 7. Atomic Barium Vapor Filter for Ultraviolet High Spectral Resolution Lidar -- Chapter 8. Future Lidars for Cutting-Edge Sciences in Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere-Stratosphere Physics and Space-Atmosphere Coupling -- Chapter 9. Polarization Lidar for Monitoring Dust Particle Orientation: First Measurements -- Chapter 10. Dust flow distribution measurement by low coherence Doppler lidar -- Chapter 11. A Multi-wavelength LED lidar for near ground atmospheric monitoring -- Chapter 12. Development of low-cost high-spectral-resolution lidar using compact multimode laser for air quality measurement -- Chapter 13. Deep Learning Based Convective Boundary Layer Determination for Aerosol and Wind Profiles observed by Wind Lidar -- Chapter 14. LITES: Laboratory Investigations of Atmospheric Aerosol Composition by Raman-Scattering and Fluorescence Spectra -- Chapter 15. Performance Simulation of a Raman Lidar for the Retrieval of CO2 Atmospheric Profiles -- Chapter 16. ALL FIBER FREE-RUNNING DUAL-COMB RANGING SYSTEM -- Chapter 17. gPCE Uncertainty Quantication Modeling of LiDAR for Bathymetric and Earth Science Applications -- Chapter 18. When can Poisson random variables be approximated as Gaussian? -- Chapter 19. Enhancing the Performance of the MicroPulse DIAL through Poisson Total Variation Signal Processing -- Chapter 20. Development of Micro Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) Level 3 Satellite Validation Products in Advance of the EarthCARE Mission -- Chapter 21. 3D Point Cloud Classification using Drone-based Scanning LIDAR and Signal Diversity -- Chapter 22. Design and Validation of an Elastic Lidar Simulator for Testing Potential New Systems for Aerosol Typing -- Chapter 23. Performance of Pulsed Wind Lidar Based on Optical Hybrid -- Chapter 24. Demonstrating Capabilities of Multiple-Beam Airborne Doppler Lidar Using a LES-based Simulator -- Chapter 25. All-Solid State Iron Resonance Lidar for Measurement of Temperature and Winds in the Upper Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere -- Chapter 26. Improved Remote Operation Capabilities for the NASA GSFC Tropospheric Ozone Lidar for Routine Ozone Profiling for Satellite Evaluation -- Chapter 27. A wind, temperature, H2O and CO2 scanning lidar mobile observatory for a 3D thermodynamic view of the atmosphere -- Chapter 28. Low-Cost and Lightweight Hyperspectral Lidar for Mapping Vegetation Fluorescence -- Chapter 29. SO2 Plumes Observation with LMOL: Theory, Modeling, and Validation -- Chapter 30. Possible Use of Iodine Absorption/Fluorescence Cell in High-Spectral-Resolution Lidar -- Chapter 31. Ten Years of Interdisciplinary Lidar Applications at SCNU, Guangzhou -- Chapter 32. Feasibility studies of the dual-polarization imaging lidar based on the division-of-focal-plane scheme for atmospheric remote sensing -- Chapter 33. An Algorithm to Retrieve Aerosol Optical Properties from ATLID and MSI Measurements -- Chapter 34. Observation of Polar Stratospheric Clouds at Dome C, Antarctica -- Chapter 35. Laboratory Evaluation of the Lidar Particle Depolarization Ratio (PDR) of Sulfates, Soot, and Mineral Dust at 180.0° Lidar Backscattering Angle -- Chapter 36. Fresh biomass burning aerosol observed in Potenza with multiwavelength Raman Lidar and sun-photometer -- Chapter 37. Aerosol Studies with Spectrometric Fluorescence and Raman Lidar -- Chapter 38. Continuous Observations of Aerosol-Weather Relationship from a Horizontal Lidar to Simulate Monitoring of Radioactive Dust in Fukashima, Japan -- Chapter 39. Statistical Simulation of Laser Pulse Propagation through Cirrus-cloudy Atmosphere -- Chapter 40. Aerosol Spatial Distribution Observed by a Mobile Vehicle Lidar with Optics for Near Range Detection -- Chapter 41. Cloud Base Height Correlation between a Co-located Micro-Pulse Lidar and a Lufft CHM15k Ceilometer -- Chapter 42. Comparison of Local and Transregional Atmospheric Particles Over the Urmia Lake in Northwest Iran, Using a Polarization Lidar Recordings -- Chapter 43. Properties of Polar Stratospheric Clouds over the European Arctic from Ground-Based Lidar -- Chapter 44. Two decades analysis of cirrus cloud radiative effects by lidar observations in the frame of NASA MPLNET lidar network -- Chapter 45. Temporal Variability of the Aerosol Properties Using a Cimel Sun/Lunar Photometer over Thessaloniki, Greece: Synergy With the Upgraded THELISYS Lidar System -- Chapter 46. Long-Term Changes of Optical Properties of Mineral Dust and Its Mixtures Derived from Raman Polariza-tion Water Vapor Lidar in Central Europe -- Chapter 47. Planetary Boundary Layer Height Measurements Using MicroPulse DIAL -- Chapter 48. Performance Modeling of a Diode-Laser-Based Direct Detection Doppler Lidar -- Chapter 49. Observation of Water Vapor Profiles by Raman Lidar with 266 nm laser in Tokyo -- Chapter 50. A 355-NM DIRECT-DETECTION DOPPLER WIND LIDAR FOR VERTICAL ATMOSPHERIC MOTION -- Chapter 51. Aircraft Wake Vortex Recognition and Classification Based on Coherent Doppler Lidar and Convolutional Neural Networks -- Chapter 52. MicroPulse Differential Absorption Lidar for Temperature Retrieval in the Lower Troposphere -- Chapter 53. Long Term Calibration of a Pure Rotational Raman Lidar for Temperature Measurements Using Radiosondes and Solar Background -- Chapter 54. Powerful Raman-Lidar for water vapor in the free troposphere and lower stratosphere as well as temperature in the stratosphere and mesosphere -- Chapter 55. Observation of Rainfall Velocity and Raindrop Size Using Power Spectrum of Coherent Doppler Lidar -- Chapter 56. Comparison of Lower Tropospheric Water Vapor Vertical Distribution Measured with Raman lidar and DIAL and Their Impact of Data Assimilation in Numerical Weather Prediction Model -- Chapter 57. Temperature Variations in the Middle Atmosphere Studied with Rayleigh Lidar at Haikou (19.9°N, 110.3°E) -- Chapter 58. Convective boundary layer sensible and latent heat flux lidar observations and towards new model parametrizations -- Chapter 59. Observation of Structure of Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer by Ceilometer over the Kuroshio Current.-Chapter 60. ABL Height Different Estimation by Lidar in the Frame of HyMeX SOP1 Campaign -- Chapter 61. Temporal Evolution of Wavelength and Orientation of Atmospheric Canopy Waves -- Chapter 62. Assessment of Planetary Boundary Layer Height Variations over a Mountain Region in Western Himalayas -- Chapter 63. Analysis of Updraft Characteristics from an Airborne Micro-Pulsed Doppler Lidar During FIREX-AQ -- Chapter 64. Diurnal Variability of MLH and Ozone in NYC Urban and Coastal Area from an Integrated Observation during LISTOS 2018 -- Chapter 65. Boundary Layer Dynamics, Aerosol Composition, and Air Quality in the Urban Background of Stuttgart in Winter -- Chapter 66. DIAL Ozone Measurement Capability Added to NASA’s HSRL-2 Instrument Demonstrates Troposheric Ozone Variability Over Houston Area -- Chapter 67. Trajectory Analysis of CO2 Concentration Increase Events in the Nocturnal Atmospheric Boundary Layer Observed by the Differential Absorption Lidar -- Chapter 68. Efficiency Assessment of Single Cell Raman Gas Mixture for DIAL Ozone Lidar -- Chapter 69. COmpact RamaN lidar for Atmospheric CO2 and ThERmodyNamic ProfilING - CONCERNING -- Chapter 70. Characterization of Recent Aerosol Events Occurring in the Subtropical North Atlantic Region Using a CIMEL CE376 GPN Micro-LiDAR -- Chapter 71. Tropospheric Ozone Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) Development at New York City -- Chapter 72. Accounting for the polarizing effects introduced from non ideal quarter-wave plates in lidar measurements of the circular depolarization ratio -- Chapter 73. Investigating the geometrical and optical properties of the persistent stratospheric aerosol layer observed over Thessaloniki, Greece during 2019 -- Chapter 74. New Lidar Data Processing Techniques for Improving the Detection Range and Accuracy of Atmospheric Gravity Wave Measurements -- Chapter 75. Extending the Useful Range of Fluorescence LIDAR Data by Applying the Layered Binning Technique -- Chapter 76. Interaction between sea wave and surface atmosphere by shallow angle LED lidar -- Chapter 77. First results of the COLOR (CDOM-proxy retrieval from aeOLus ObseRvations) project -- Chapter 78. Dual wavelength heterodyne LDA for velocity and size distribution measurements in ocean water flows -- Chapter 79. Mitigation Strategy for the Impact of Low Energy Laser Pulses in CALIOP Calibration and Level 2 Retrievals -- Chapter 80. Introducing the Cloud Aerosol Lidar for Global Scale Observations of the Ocean-Land-Atmosphere System – CALIGOLA -- Chapter 81. An Overview of the NASA Atmosphere Observing System Inclined Mission (AOS-I) and the Role of Backscatter Lidar -- Chapter 82. Proposal for the Space-borne Integrated Path Differential Absorption (IPDA) Lidar for Lower Tropospheric Water Vapor Observations -- Chapter 83. Assimilation of Aerosol Observations from the Future Spaceborne Lidar Onboard the AOS Mission into the MOCAGE Chemistry-Transport Model -- Chapter 84. Aerosol Optical Properties over Western Himalayas Region by Raman Lidar during the December 2019 Annular Solar Eclipse -- Chapte.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Papua New Guinea (PNG)…the new nation and a global experimental sustainability success of a re-newed tribal governance: Insights from the misunderstood modern control study -- Chapter 2: The land of Papua New Guinea: A quick conservation reader for what CEOs and Directors ought to know -- Chapter 3: The oceans surrounding Papua New Guinea: A habitat view for sustainable fisheries and an acknowledged lack of carrying capacity knowledge of the ocean ecosystem -- Chapter 4: Deep Times of Papua New Guinea with over 47,000 years nothing ‘relevant’ happening: Why it matters for the world’s future as a leading sustainable steady-state economy role model and a Sustainability Super-Nation -- Chapter 5: Colonial After-Times in Papua New Guinea: Urgency for Repatriation, Biodiversity Compensation and Fair Treatment to Assure a Better Global Future -- Chapter 6: Biodiversity of Papua New Guinea (PNG): Attempting a More Meaningful Conservation Description and Approach of its Use, Co-Evolution, Generic Status and Grim Outlook -- Chapter 7: Papua New Guinea as a global sustainability leader: Confronting per capita metrics with GIS layers and social engineering -- Chapter 8: Fundamental Humanitarian Sustainability issues in Papua New Guinea: SDGs to fail us further on biodiversity and wilderness conservation -- Chapter 9: In Bed with a Big Bad Neighbor for Life: The Middle Power of Australia as a Domestic, Cultural, Political, Material and Environmental Sustainability Problem for Papua New Guinea and beyond ? -- Chapter 10: Betel nut, Coconuts/copra, Chocolate, Strawberries, Coffee, Apples, Spam and Fish in Papua New Guinea: From highly-bred species and sustainability concepts over diseases and DNA into global market repercussions and wholesale (environmental) bankruptcy -- Chapter 11: Papua New Guinea: Australia’s failed dream, some failed states and the widely acknowledged outer facism -- Chapter 12: Destruction by Mining and Drilling on a global scale, with Papua New Guinea fully embedded: A meta-analysis contribution about the resource curse, global bankruptcy, destruction, terror and death favors Mother Earth -- Chapter 13: Seafloor mining around Papua New Guinea: Just another ‘Big Deal’ gone bust -- Chapter 14: “Come and Dive” in Papua New Guinea: Surfing, Reefs, paper park MPAs, and marine conservation issues in PNG beyond sharks, whales, crocodiles, seagrass and ‘developing a resource’ -- Chapter 15: Timber and Forestry in Papua New Guinea: Still no publicly available forest inventory data or growth & yield tables despite Google Earth, Microsoft Cloud, NGOs, international development aid, REDD, satellites and drones applied last decade for a science-based forestry -- Chapter 16: Papua New Guinea as a paradise (of weaponized diseases): AIDS/HIV, African Swine Fever, Malaria, Avian Influenza, weaponized viruses and wider Public Health ? -- Chapter 17: Papua New Guinea and Climate Change (and REED/REDD+): The ‘Western Carbon Cult’ as a new hostile relationship that was friendly though throughout most of Mother Earth’s history -- Chapter 18: Sustainability Impacts from the Australian Arc of Perceived Terror, Tyranny and ‘Development Aid/Help’ in Papua New Guinea and some surrounding regions -- Chapter 19: Papua New Guinea, Education, Science and Space Exploration: A primer, and the bad roles of Christianity and Oxford/Cambridge, again, calling for an improved and globally inclusive STEM-type Cybereducation for ‘the bush’ and global sustainability -- Chapter 20: Case study: The YUS (Yupno, Uruwa and Sam rivers) Landscape, Huon Peninsula in Papua New Guinea as an ongoing and world-leading success story despite international coffee and National Park model landgrabs -- Chapter 21: Case Study on Outsider Impacts by Exploration, Mining, Science and NGOs: An honest look at Crater Mountain in Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 22: “Pacifism as a Western Pathology” ? A case review of Bougainville terror, civil war and independence, civil unrest, missing mining impact studies, and why the nation construct of modern Papua New Guinea could fall apart soon due its colonial creators -- Chapter 23: Case study of Urban Ecology: Who runs the shots in Port Moresby (POM) ? An attempted exposure and review of cliques and their profiles in a global crime hotspot -- Chapter 24: RAMU sugar in Papua New Guinea from Fiji: Take-home lessons from another perverted project based on the neoliberalism principle -- Chapter 25: Role of outside nations in Papua New Guinea’s sustainability model: China, U.S. UK, the EU, Russia, Australia, NZ and Japan need Bob Marley and the Dalai Lama coming to the rescue -- Chapter 26: Papua New Guinea from a modern Anthropology perspective: PNG 1, Western World 0. Bob Marley and the tribes remain the judges -- Chapter 27: 100 open access GIS layers and their analysis and message: Human Footprints of the last 100 years destroyed a civilization that is c. 50,000 years old, and more -- Chapter 28: Why are there no Squirrels in Papua New Guinea ? Inference from a global open access data prediction model -- Chapter 29: A SWAT and PESTL analysis for PNG using 113 GIS Layers: Data cannot lie -- Chapter 30: Some very easy lessons from Papua New Guinea’s “Garden of Abundance” for the wider global good: Indigenous, Tribal and Marxist views, Bob Marley as the public role model, destructive Neoliberalism, Reality and Globalization failures are not Rocket Science -- Chapter 31: Bringing it all home: Where on earth is Papua New Guinea, its society, their environment and well-being heading ? Examples of Western Failure and Forwards to the Roots, in your own garden without social engineering!.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Detection of Coccolithophore bloom episodes in Algiers Bay using satellite and in-situ analysis -- Chapter2. Multiscale spatiotemporal NDVI mapping of salt marshes using Sentinel-2, Dove, and UAV imagery in the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, France -- Chapter3. Contribution of near and mid infrared wavebands to mapping fine-scale coastal ecogeomorphological features -- Chapter4. Monitoring land cover change in the south-eastern Baltic sea since the 1980s by remote sensing -- Chapter5. Assessment of land cover changes in the Allala watershed based on object based image analysis using Landsat and Sentinel-2 images -- Chapter6. Deep Learning based Bathymetry Mapping from Multispectral Satellite Data around Europa Island -- Chapter7. Assessment of coastal vulnerability to erosion risk using geospatial and remote sensing methods (case of Jerba Island, Tunisia) -- Chapter8. A Random Forest approach for evaluating forest cover changes outside dikes with Sentinel images -- Chapter9. Spatial monitoring of coastal protection dikes case-study of the touristic beach “Palm Beach, west-Algiers Algeria’’ -- Chapter10. Monitoring shoreline changes in the Vietnamese Mekong delta coastal zone using satellite images and wave reduction structures -- Chapter11. Automatic detection of hydrodynamical and biological indicators of the shoreline using a convolutional neural network -- Chapter12. Very high-resolution monitoring and evaluation of tidal and ecological restoration in Beaussais’ bay -- Chapter13. Assessment of shoreline change of Jerba Island based on remote sensing data and GIS using DSAS tools -- Chapter14. New insights into the shallow morpho-sedimentary patterns using high-resolution topo-bathymetric lidar: the case study of the Bay of Saint-Malo -- Chapter15. Spatial modeling of the benthic biodiversity using topo-bathymetric lidar and neural networks -- Chapter16. Local circalittoral rocky seascape structuring fish community: insights from a photogrammetric approach -- Chapter17. Local circalittoral rocky seascape structuring fish community: insights from a photogrammetric approach -- Chapter18. Increasing the nature-based coastal protection using bathymetric lidar, terrain classification, network modelling: reefs of Saint-Malo’s lagoon?.

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: 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: 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 - The Agriculture Eras -- Chapter 2 - Global Navigation Satellite Systems -- Chapter 3 - Spatial and Temporal Variability Analysis -- Chapter 4 - Images and Remote Sensing Applied to Agricultural Management -- Chapter 5 - Geoprocessing Applied to Crop Management -- Chapter 6 - Sampling and Interpretation of Maps -- Chapter 7 - Agricultural Drones’ Application -- Chapter 8 - Sensors and Actuators -- Chapter 9 - Control and Automation Systems in Agricultural Machinery -- Chapter 10 - Digital Irrigation -- Chapter 11 - Digital Livestock Farming -- Chapter 12 - Internet of Things In Agriculture -- Chapter 13 - Data transmission, cloud computing and Big Data -- Chapter 14 - Machine Learning -- Chapter 15 - Platforms, Applications and Software -- Chapter 16 - Digital Data: Cycle, Standardization, Quality, Sharing and Security -- Chapter 17 - Case Study: SLC Agrícola -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Geo-hazards in Langtang, Nepal -- 2. Impact of climate change on the onset of floods in the Ganges river in Bangladesh -- 3. Water issues in Sri Lanka -- 4. NDVI variability in Bangladesh -- 5. Agro-ecosystems in the Brahmaputra Valley, India -- 6. Going, going, gone? Declining vegetation health in Nepal -- 7. Politics of Urban Land use Planning in South Asia 8. Environmental issues in Myanmar -- 9. Above ground biomass assessment and carbon sequestration potentials in Bhutan -- 10. Prioritization of flood prone villages in Indo-Bangladesh using analytical hierarchy process and geospatial techniques.

Description / Table of Contents: Editorial -- Part 1: Multidisciplinarity in theory and education -- Plural security: Diverse disciplines, multiple actors -- Third Generation CPTED – Integrating crime prevention and neighbourhood liveability -- Social work and policing: Multidisciplinary vocational trainings for urban security -- From the borders and edges: Youth cultures, arts, urban areas and crime prevention -- Part 2: Multidisciplinarity in policy and planning -- Standardisation and multidisciplinary processes in urban crime prevention. The only crime prevention standard in Europe since the Roman Empire: From the CEN 14383 series to the worldwide ISO 22341:2021 -- Local safety contracts: Profiling a multi-disciplinary and multi-level cooperation for crime prevention -- Beyond simplicity – Urban security as a diverse and transdisciplinary approach -- The quarter as new level of urban crime prevention -- Part 3: Multidisciplinary in research and practice -- Multidimensionality in geospatial urban crime prevention modelling and decision support: The case of Porto, Portugal -- Incivilities in public spaces and insecurity. A case study in Bologna, Italy -- The role of the perception of fear in the disintegration of neighbourhoods and the appearance of crime -- CPTED evolution, from Latin America to the World -- Make the World yours! Arts-based research in action in the Cerco do Porto neighbourhood -- ‘A revolution without death’. Hip-hop as a weapon against violence.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Introduction -- Chapter 2-Reference systems in GNSS geodesy -- Chapter 3-Estimating geodetic parameters from GNSS -- Chapter 4-GNSS satellite tracking and observation models -- Chapter 5-Geodetic CORS and tracking networks -- Chapter 6-Satellite orbit determination -- Chapter 7-GNSS data processing and biases -- Chapter 8-GNSS software and online tools -- Chapter 9-GNSS geodetic solution exchange formats -- Chapter 10-GNSS time series combinations and data products -- Chapter 11-Geospatial applications of GNSS geodesy -- Chapter 12-Scientific applications of GNSS geodesy.

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: Part-I: Evolution and Development of Drainage System -- 1. Drainage basin as a system unit (case study of gully basin or river basin) -- 2. Geomorphic threshold and evolution of drainage system (case study of badland) -- 3. Mechanics and landforms of drainage system (case study of badland / river) -- 4. System of stream classification (case study of ephemeral gully basin) -- 5. Controlling factors of drainage system (case study of badland /Plateau regions) -- Part-II: Drainage Basin Morphology -- 1. Morphometric properties of Drainage Basin (case study of badland /Plateau regions) -- 2. Quantitative analysis of Drainage Basin (case study of badland /Plateau regions) -- 3. Hypsometry curve analysis (case study analysis) -- 3. Alluvial Fan Morphology (case study of Hillslope / Estuarine) -- 4. Bed Morphology of drainage basin (case study of ephemeral gully basin / Mountain River / Plateau River) -- Part-III: Drainage Basin Hydrology and Modelling -- 1. River Hydraulics properties (case study of badland /Plateau regions) -- 2. Hydrological frequency-magnitude analysis (case study analysis) -- 3. Estimation of Rainfall-runoff with computations (case study analysis) -- 4. Flood risk analysis (case study analysis) -- 5. Ground water prospecting and modelling -- 6. GIS based hydrologic modelling -- Part-IV: Drainage Basin Sedimentology -- 1. Sediment properties: particle size distribution (case study analysis) -- 2. Estimation of erosion and sediment yieldModelling (GIS based) -- 3. Sediment facies analysis (case study analysis) -- 4. Bed load sediment transport modeling (case study analysis) -- 5. River deposition and fluvial landforms (case study analysis) -- 6. Geo-chemical analysis of sediment -- Part-V: Human Interference/interventions on Drainage Basin -- 1. Cheek dam impact (case study analysis) -- 2. River embankments (case study analysis) -- 3. Dams construction (case study analysis) -- 4. Barrage/Bridge construction (case study analysis) -- 5. Sand mining/ stone quarrying (case study analysis) -- 6. Landuse changes(deforestation, urbanization, agricultural expansion) and sediment yield (case study analysis) -- 7. River pollution and channel changes -- Part-VI: Drainage Basin Management -- 1. Quantitative analysis of watershed geomorphology using RS and GIS (Machine learning algorithm, SWAT etc) -- 2. River water management under watershed using geospatial techniques -- 3. Integrated river basin management and geostatistics -- 4. Management of Ecological Variability (ecological flow) and Pollution of the Hyporheic Zone using Geospatial techniques -- 5.. Social engineering and river basin management -- 6. Basin management and regional planning.

Description / Table of Contents: Part-A: Introduction to the Disasters and Hazards in the Himalayan Terrains -- 1. Disasters in the Complex Himalayan Terrains -- 2. Hazards in the perspective of Himalayan Terrain: A review -- Part-B: Landslides in the Himalayas – Causes and Consequences -- 3. Himalayan Landslides – Causes and Evolution -- 4. Landslides in the Himalayas: Causes, Evolution, and Mitigation – A Case Study of National Highway 44, India -- 5. Geo-environmental Impact of Road Widening Project along the National Highway- 44A, Jammu & Kashmir, India -- Part-C: Floods in the Himalayas – Causes and Consequences -- 6. September 2014 floods in Kashmir Himalaya - Impacts and Mitigation Strategy -- 7. A review on the estimation of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) in the Himalayan region using remote sensing and geographic information system -- 8. Impact of Floods on the Green Energy Sector in the Himalayas using remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) – A case study of Gagas Watershed, Uttarakhand, India -- Part-D: Earthquakes in the Himalayas – Assessment and Forecasting -- 9. Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry to Measure Earthquake Related Deformation: A Case Study from Nepal -- 10. Earthquake Forecasting in the Himalayas using Artificial Neural Networks -- Part-E: Hazard mitigation strategies in the Himalayas -- 11. Forest Fire Alert System of India with a Special Reference to Fire Vulnerability Assessment of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir -- 12. Hazard mitigation and climate change in the Himalayas – Policy and Decision making.

Description / Table of Contents: Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- 1. Soil erosion: The general problem -- 1.1 The soil, and its erosion -- 1.2 Scope of soil erosion -- 1.3 A brief history of soil loss -- 1.4 Soil as a finite resource -- 1.5 Summary -- 2 The case of agricultural catchments -- 2.1 Erosion factors in a distinct landform -- 2.2 On-site and off-site consequences -- 2.3 The human agent -- 2.4 Summary -- 3 The physical process -- 3.1 The basics of hillslope erosion -- 3.2 Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) -- 3.3 CAESAR-Lisflood a landscape evolution model -- 3.4 Morgan-Morgan-Finney (MMF) -- 3.5 Summary -- 4 Spatial variation in the catchment -- 4.1 Discrete spatial units -- 4.2 A suite of continuous variables -- 4.3 Summary -- 5 Earth-based observations -- 5.1 Spectral indices: spectral signatures and mathematical expressions -- 5.2 Classification -- 5.3 Synergy of RS data in catchment models -- 5.4 Close range analysis -- 5.5 Summary -- 6 Predicting erosion risk: from expert knowledge to data mining -- 6.1 The Topographic Threshold -- 6.2 Expert-based systems -- 6.3 The data-mining approach -- 6.4 Fuzzy logic -- 6.5 Summary -- 7 Health of the remaining soil -- 7.1 The soil health index -- 7.2 Statistical analysis and pre-processing -- 7.3 Mapping soil health -- 7.4 Summary -- 8 Decision-making -- 8.1 Decision-making in soil conservation -- 8.2 The simple expert system -- 8.3 GISCAME -- 8.4 Summary -- References -- Index -- Nomenclature.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction to “Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Libya” -- 2. Application of remote sensing and GIS in land cover/land use mapping and change detection using Google Earth Engine platform: a case study in northwestern Libya -- 3. Evaluation of selected vegetation indices to assess rangeland vegetation in eastern Libya -- 4. Spatiotemporal analysis of Vegetation Health Index (VHI) and drought patterns in Libya based on remote sensing time series -- 5. Integration of remotely sensed data and machine learning technique for spatial prediction of selected soil properties in northwestern Libya -- 6. Field and laboratory estimation of soil erodibility, erosion and degradation of the semi-arid Aljabal Alkhdar region, Libya -- 7. DRAINMOD applications to design drainage systems in Libya using soil salinity data predicted by GIS, remote sensing and Artificial Neural Networks -- 8. Surface water potential and suitable sites identification for RWH in the semi-arid and arid watershed of Wadi Sammalus, northeast Libya using GIS and Remote Sensing approach -- 9. Stepwise approach for morphometric modeling of Wadi Zamzam watershed in north-western Libya using GIS and remote sensing techniques -- 10. Geospatial mapping and analysis of the 2019 Flood Disaster extent and impact in the city of Ghat in southwestern Libya using Google Earth Engine and deep learning technique -- 11. Oil pollution monitoring and detection using GIS and remote sensing techniques: case study from Libya -- 12. Conclusions, and Recommendations for Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Libya.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface by Series Editor -- Foreword -- Author biographies -- Physical environment -- Landscapes and landforms -- Geoheritage and landscape protection -- Index. .

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1 ‘The Story of Geographical Names and Disputes’ -- Chapter 2 ‘Beginning of Discomfort and Dispute’ -- Chapter 3 'East Sea, an Endonym of Korea' -- Chapter 4 'Endonym and Exonym of Japan' -- Chapter 5 'Various Exonyms Used in the West' -- Chapter 6 ‘Sea of Japan and East Sea in Geography Education of the Modern Period’ -- Chapter 7 ‘The Unfinished Story of Geographical Names’ -- Bibliography -- Sources of Maps and Pictures -- Chronology of the Names of East Sea/Sea of Japan -- Epilogue.

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 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: Introduction -- Applications to Agriculture and Forestry -- Water Resources and Ecology -- Urban Management -- Case Studies -- Conclusions and Recommendations.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Soil and Crop Sensing for Precision Crop Production: An Introduction -- 2 Sensing Technology of Soil Physical Properties -- 3 Theories and Methods for Soil Nutrient Sensing -- 4 Application of Soil Sensing in Precision Agriculture -- 5 Theories and Methods for Spectroscopy-based Crop Nutrient Sensing -- 6 Remote sensing technologies for crop disease and pest detection -- 7 Plant Phenotyping -- 8 Crop Sensing in Precision Agriculture -- 9 Perspectives of Soil and Crop Sensing in Smart Agriculture -- Index -- .

Description / Table of Contents: Chap 1. Historical Background of Cuban Land Cover Change -- Chap 2. Linking Causal Factors to Areas of Highest Change -- Chap 3. Governmental Organization and Control Over Environmental Policies -- Chap 4. Establishment and Description of Current Park/ Protected Areas System -- Chap 5. History of Remote Sensing and GIS as It Relates to Assessment of Land Use and Land Cover Changes Over Time -- Chap 6. Cuban Environment, the Past, Present and Future -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Montane grasslands: Biomass estimations using remote sensing techniques and knowledge gap in Africa -- Chapter2. Unravelling regional Geodiversity: a GRID-MAPPING Approach to QUANTIFY GEODIVERSITY in the uThukela District, KwaZulu-Natal -- Chapter3. Monitoring the wildfire activity and ecosystem response on Mt. Kilimanjaro using Earth Observation data and GIS -- Chapter4. Ecological Vulnerability Assessment to Grassland Fires in a Protected Mountainous Area Using Remote Sensing and GIS -- Chapter5. Natural hazards magnitude, vulnerability and recovery strategies in the Rwenzori Mountains, Southwestern Uganda -- Chapter6. Assessing the Vulnerability of the Eastern Africa Highlands’ Soils to Rainfall Erosivity -- Chapter7. Development of Lightning Hazard Map for Fire Danger Assessment over Mountainous Protected Area using Geospatial Technology -- Chapter8. Water resources monitoring over the Atlas Mountains in Morocco using satellite observations and Reanalysis data -- Chapter9. Evaluating Settlement Development Change, Pre, and Post-1994 in the Drakensberg Mountains of Afromontane Region, South Africa -- Chapter10. Digital Soil Mapping for hydropedological purposes of the Cathedral Peak research catchments, South Africa -- Chapter11. Effect of Climate Variability and Change on Land Suitability for Irish Potato Production in Kigezi Highlands of Uganda.

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: 1. Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing -- 2. Water Resources in the Middle East -- 3. The Suitability of Satellite Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies For Mapping, Monitoring and Managing Water Resources in The Middle East -- 4. Atmospheric Rivers and Precipitation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) -- 5. Inventory of Shared Water Resources in Western Asia Revisited: Selected Pilot Areas for the Application of Remote Sensing -- 6. GIS-based multi-criteria approach to assess water resources vulnerability in a changing climate over the Arab Domain -- 7. Unraveling the spatio-temporal dynamics of satellite-inferred water resources in the Arabian Peninsula -- 8. A Technical Note on Least Squares Mascon Fitting to GRACE Satellite Data to Estimate Total Water Storage Changes in The Middle East -- 9. Spatial-Temporal Change of a Dam Lake Area Using Remote Sensing and Meteorological Drought Indices -- 10. Forecasting Domestic Water Demand using Meteorological and Satellite data: Case study of Greater Beirut Area -- 11. MODIS Satellite Images and TRMM Products to Compare Rainfall and Streamflow along the Coastal Rivers of Lebanon -- 12. Water balance and demand for different environmental changes and management scenarios in the Hasbani Basin, Lebanon using WEAP model and remotely sensed data -- 13. Agricultural Water Management in the Nile Delta Using Remote Sensing Techniques -- 14. Studying Hydrological Characteristics of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestine Using GIS and Remote Sensing Data -- 15. Landsat Satellite Images for Lineaments Detection: A Tool to Identify Groundwater Productivity in Lebanon -- 16. Using information from remote sensing to estimate groundwater: GRACE and Sentinel-1 satellites -- 17. Volcanic Terrains Reveal Bright Hydrogeological Prospects in Saudi Arabia: A GIS & RSA Linked Research on Harrat Rahat -- 18. Regional mapping of groundwater potential zones in the Saudi Arabia using remote sensing and machine learning algorithms -- 19. A DRASTIC-based Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Technique for Evaluating Groundwater Vulnerability under Uncertainty -- 20. Prospects of Retrieving Non-Optical Water Quality Properties with Remote Sensing Techniques -- 21. The potential of different reflectance based algorithms to retrieve Phycocyanin concentration through remote sensing. Application to a hypereutrophic Mediterranean lake -- 22. Remote sensing of water quality for human use of Shat Al-Hilla, Iraq.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Study Overview of Flash Floods -- Chapter2. Knowledge of Flash Flood and Related Problems -- Chapter3. Collection and Investigation on Natural and Socio-Economic Characteristics Related to Flash Floods -- Chapter4. Establishing the Databases for Mapping Flash Flood Risk -- Chapter5. Building the Map of Flash Flood Risk -- Chapter6. Solutions for Preventing and Limiting Flash Flood Risk.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Framework for urban growth simulation driven by strategic spatial plan -- Chapter 3. Household lifecycle model employed as basement for simulating policy impacts on urbanization -- Chapter 4. Household residential relocation model for investigating impact of spatial strategic policy -- Chapter 5. Simulating household shopping choices for verifying location policy of large-scale shopping centre -- Chapter 6. Simulating policy impact of community-based facility location on day-care service for aged population -- Chapter 7. Evaluating evacuee number and capacity of accommodation shelters for earthquake disaster -- Chapter 8. Water consumption behaviors and water price negotiation between government and households for domestic water management -- Chapter 9. Household energy consumption and environment tax in urban area -- Chapter 10. Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Water: How Secure are We under Climate Change? -- Influence of stemflow measurement on interception estimation under Eucalyptus plantations -- Strategic Human Resources in Water Sources Development -- Water Budget Monitoring of the Ganga River Basin using remote sensing data and GIS -- Evaluation of SWAT Model for Simulating the Water Balance Components for the DudhKoshi River Basin in Nepal -- Development Policy Framework Towards Riverfront Development (RFD)- A Study on Mula- Mutha Riverfront Pune, Maharashtra, India -- Rejuvenating Water Wisdom: A Route to Resilience. .

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Reference Systems and Frames -- Towards an International Height Reference Frame Using Clock Networks -- Towards the realization of the International Height Reference Frame (IHRF) in Argentina -- Comparing Vienna CRF solutions to Gaia-CRF2 -- Co-Location of Space Geodetic Techniques: Studies on Intra-Technique Short Baselines -- Status of IGS Reprocessing Activities at GFZ -- A Wavelet-based Outlier Detection and Noise Component Analysis for GNSS Position Time Series -- Part II: Gravity field modelling -- International Combination Service for Time-variable Gravity Fields (COST-G) – Start of operational phase and future perspectives -- LUH-GRACE2018: a new time series of monthly gravity field solutions from GRACE -- A Precise Geoid Model for Africa: AFRgeo2019 -- Part III: Earth rotation and geodynamics -- A first assessment of the corrections for the consistency of the IAU2000 and IAU2006 precession-nutation models -- Report of the IAU/IAG Joint Working Group on Theory of Earth rotation and validation -- Achievements of the first 4 years of the International Geodynamics and Earth Tide Service (IGETS) 2015 – 2019 -- Inter-comparison of ground gravity and vertical height measurements at collocated IGETS stations -- Part IV: Multi-Signal Positioning, Remote Sensing and Applications -- A Benchmarking Measurement Campaign to Support Ubiquitous Localization in GNSS Denied and Indoor Environments -- A method to correct the raw Doppler observations for GNSS velocity determination -- Assessment of a GNSS/INS/Wi-Fi Tight-Integration Method Using Support Vector Machine and Extended Kalman Filter -- Enhancing navigation in difficult environments with low-cost, dual-frequency GNSS PPP and MEMS IMU -- Part V: Monitoring and Understanding the Dynamic Earth with Geodetic Observations -- Water Depletion and Land Subsidence in Iran using Gravity, GNSS, InSAR and Precise Levelling Data -- Past and future sea level changes and land uplift in the Baltic Sea seen by geodetic observations -- Estimation of Lesser Antilles vertical velocity fields using a GNSS-PPP software comparison -- Time variations of the vertical component in Japanese GEONET GNSS sites -- An approximate method to simulate post-seismic deformations in a realistic Earth model -- Geodetic monitoring of the variable surface 1 deformation in Latin America -- Progress in GTEWS ground displacement measurements and tsunami warning -- Part VI: Geodesy for Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Climate Research (IAG, IAMAS, IACS, IAPSO) -- Characterization of the Upper Atmosphere from Neutral and Electron Density Observations -- Tropospheric products from high-level GNSS processing in Latin America -- Can vertical GPS displacements serve as proxies for climate variability in North America? -- Tracking Hurricanes using GPS atmospheric precipitable water vapor field -- Continuous monitoring with a superconducting gravimeter as a proxy for water storage changes in a mountain catchment -- Least-Squares Spectral and Coherency Analysis of the Zenith Total Delay Time Series at SuomiNet Station SA56 (UNB2).

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Study Area -- Chapter3. Industrial Projects -- Chapter4. Land Acquisition and Land use Change — A Mouza Level Study -- Chapter5. Hydrological Impact of Land Use Conversion -- Chapter6. Land Acquisition and Livelihood -- Chapter7. Uncertainity and Suffering -- Chapter8. Level of Development — A Comparative Study Between Project and Non-Project Area -- Chapter9. Environmental Impact Assessment -- Chapter10. Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. The emergence of spatial planning policy in 20th century Portugal -- 2. Change of paradigm: a modern program -- 3. The democratic planning policy -- 4. The rural habitat and architectural imagination -- 5. On the road -- 6. The Food System, a portrait of transformations -- 7. Urban agriculture from a historical perspective -- 8. A survey of Urban Agriculture in the Lisbon Region -- 9. Putting the food system into perspective: a case-study from Lisbon to Vila Franca de Xira.

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: Geospatial Technology for Geomorphology Mapping and its Applications -- Geospatial technology for estimation of geomorphological characteristics of an ungauged watershed -- Long Term Analysis of River Migration Pattern using Geospatial Techniques – A case study of upper part of the Ganga River, India -- Space borne Scatterometers for understanding the large-scale land hydrological processes -- Wetland Classification and Monitoring Using Time Series Earth Observation Data and Machine Learning Algorithm: A Case Study in Upper Ganga River Stretch.

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: Chapter 1. Introduction (Jiří Pánek) -- Chapter 2. Geoparticipation and Democratic Theory (Jakub Bakule) -- Chapter 3. Geospatial Technologies For Geoparticipation (Jaroslav Burian, Jiří Pánek and Vít Pászto) -- Chapter 4. Open Data And Its Role In Geoparticipation (Jaroslav Burian and Barbora Kočvarová) -- Chapter 5. Improving Local Democracy Works: Determinants of Participatory Local Governments (Jakub Lysek) -- Chapter 6. Participatory Budgeting in the Czech Republic (Jiří Chovaneček) -- Chapter 7. GeoParticipatory tools in action: Case study Jeseník, Czech Republic (David Žichovský, Jiří Pánek, Jiří Chovaneček) -- Chapter 8. The Application Of City-Building Games In Spatial Planning (Jan PIŇOS, Jaroslav Burian).

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: Anthropogeomorphology and Geospatial Technology -- Chapter 2-Geospatial Hydrometeorology -- Chapter 3-Remote Sensing Based Assessment of Water Management and Anthropogenic Process -- Chapter 4-Riverine Geomorphology Using Geospatial Technology & Anthropogenic Process -- Chapter 5-Coastal Geomorphology using RS and GIS and Anthropogenic Process -- Chapter 6-GIS based Study of Forest Ecology and Anthropogenic Process -- Chapter 7-Web GIS based Decision Support System for Agricultural Landscape and Anthropogenic Process -- Chapter 8-Satellite based Monitoring of Soil Erosion Mapping and Modelling and Anthropogenic activity -- Chapter 9-Geoinformatics for Urbanogenic Intervention and Anthropogenic Process -- Chapter 10-Industrogenic intervention and Anthropogenic Process -- Chapter 11-Anthropogenic Process and Montanogenic Intervention: Geospatial Information Based Study -- Chapter 12-Application of Geospatial Technology on Tourism activity and Anthropogenic impact.

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: Time is running out -- Why there is no time left -- City, Urbanization, and Energy -- City, Urbanization, and Energy -- Energy Footprints, the Intra Muros-Principle and Plus-Minus-Regions -- The Space-Resources Principle -- The Spatial-Prototype Principle -- The Principle of Closing Loops.

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: Pointcloud and Geomorphology – a theoretical and practical introduction -- Pointcloud generation in Geomorphology -- Point-cloud processing and derivatives -- Pointcloud Technology for Coastal and Floodplain Geomorphology -- Point-cloud and Hillslope Geomorphology.

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: Data Analysis in the Earth Sciences -- Introduction to Python -- Univariate Statistics -- Bivariate Statistics -- Time Series Analysis -- Signal Processing -- Spatial Data -- Image Processing -- Multivariate Statistics -- Directional Data.

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: Chapter 1. Introduction to Soil Erosion Study -- Chapter 2. Geo-physical Settings of South Bengal -- Chapter 3. Morphotectonics Characteristics and its control on Soil Erosion -- Chapter 4. Estimation of Surface Runoff -- Chapter 5. Soil Loss Estimation using different Empirical and Semi-empirical Models -- Chapter 6. Potential Sediment Yield Estimation using Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Techniques and GIS -- Chapter 7. Impact of Climate and LULC Change on Soil Erosion -- Chapter 8. Socio-political policy implication.

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: Part I: General Overview of Ethiopian Church Forests -- 1. Understanding Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in and the surroundings of Ethiopian Church Forests -- 2. Estimation and mapping of Asabot Monastery Dry Afromontane Forest Carbon Stock Under Diverse Land Use Scenarios -- 3. Land cover changes and forest fragmentation on the surrounding of selected church forests in Ethiopia -- 4. Sacred Texts and Environmental Ethics: Lessons in Sustainability from Ethiopia -- Part II: Present Role and Future Challenges of Ethiopian Church Forests -- 5. The role of Ethiopian Church Forests for Soil Carbon Sequestration -- 6. Aboveground and Belowground Carbon Pools for Some Selected Native and Introduced Tree Species of Abune Teklehayimanot Church Forest, Welayita Sodo, Southern Ethiopia -- Part III: Structure and Diversity of Ethiopian Church Forests -- 7. Floristic Composition, Diversity and Regeneration Status of Woody Plants in Four Church Forests in Ethiopia -- 8. Diversity, Regeneration Status and Socio-Economic Importance of Tara Gedam, Abebaye and Fach Forests, Libokemkem District of South Gondar Administrative Zone, Northwestern Ethiopia -- 9. Woody Vegetation Composition and Structure of Church Forests in Southeast of Lake Tana, Northwest Ethiopia -- 10. Woody Species Composition, Diversity, Structure and Uses of Selected Church Forests in the Central Ethiopia -- Part IV: Restoration Options to the Surrounding Landscapes of Ethiopian Church Forests -- 11. Church Forests as Repositories for Forest Reproductive Material of Native Species and their Possible Role as Starting Points for the Restoration of Degraded Areas -- 12. Ecological Status and Plan for Connectivity of Fragmented Forests as a Means of Degraded Land Restoration in South Gonder, Ethiopia -- 13. Identifying Priority Areas for Conservation in Mojo River Watershed of Ethiopia using GIS-Based Erosion Risk Evaluation -- 14. Ethiopian church forests as monitoring towers in reconstructing climate change and its impacts and to make evidence-based climate-smart restoration efforts -- 15. Rehabilitation sites prioritization on base of remote sensing time series, erosion risk and woody biomass modelling.

Description / Table of Contents: Slope instability mechanisms in karst rocks and their impact on sustainable development, Egypt -- Application of a new generalized method to assess alert thresholds for landslides -- Geological, Hydrological and Geotechnical Characterization of Landslides in the Mila Basin (Northeast Algeria) -- Analysis of the causes of landslide in the village Podi, Montenegro -- Seismic internal stability of reinforced earth retaining walls in saturated soils -- Parametric optimization study of landslides using statistical tools In The Region Of Souk Ahras (Algeria) -- GIS-based mapping of geotechnical properties of residual soil in Kibawe, Bukidnon, Philippines: Implications to slope stability -- Reliability analysis to locate the propagation failure direction in case of slopes progressive failure -- Assessment and stabilization of natural hazards by a reinforcement system -- Effect of sewage sludge ash on collapsible soil.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -- The Geography of Territorial Disputes in the East and South China Seas -- Chapter 2-The Devil’s Garden: A study of mine warfare at El Alamein -- Chapter 3-Simulating the Trench War: The practice camps in Aube (Champagne, France) 1914-1919 -- Chapter 4-Infrastructure Support: an era of change and complexity -- Chapter 5-The U.S.10th Mountain Division in Italy, 1945: Initial operations in the Appenines -- Chapter 6-‘News on the Eastern Front’ The WWI tactical maps of the Italian Army in the historical archive of the 3rd Armata: Proposals for a semiologic interpretation and a digital analysis -- Chapter 7-The 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale, Colorado: The Origin of Mountain 32 Alpine Warfare Testing and Training in the U.S -- Chapter 8-The Demarcation of the Czechoslovak Border in the Period 1918-1924 -- Chapter 9-Defending Britain’s Soft Underbelly: Invasion, fortification and geology near Portsmouth, Hampshire -- Chapter 10-Examples of German Trafficability Maps from the Eastern Front in Europe 1941-45 -- Chapter 11-German Military Specialist Maps of the North Italian Theatre of War 1945 -- Chapter 12-War Geology of the Imperial and Royal Army at the Isonzo-Front 1918 -- Chapter 13-Environmental Impact of Military Shooting Ranges -- Chapter 14-The Evolution of the Italian Treatises about Military Geography and Geology During the Last Two Centuries -- Chapter 15-The Vietnam War: A geographic analysis -- Chapter 16-The Italian Corps of Engineers in WWI: Innovations in mining, and tunnel warfare -- Chapter 17-Remarking Warscape Archaeology: Fresh news from the not-quiet Central-Alpine Front -- Chapter 18-An evaluation and comparison of ordinary least squares and geographically weighted regression tools for predicting surface soil texture, using remote sensing -- Chapter 19-The Durand Line: A fragile border in the heart of Asia -- Chapter 20-Geographical representation of the Royal Italian Army war sectors and sites during the First World War -- Chapter 21-The Development and Implications of Arab Underground Guerrilla and Terror Activity in the Gaza Strip -- Chapter 22-The Utility of Soil-Landform Relationships in Terrain Mobility Models Based on Soil-strength Characteristics -- Chapter 23-Italian Prisoners of War in South Africa: circumstances and contributions -- Chapter 24-Current Operational Challenges for Military Geo and Innovative Approaches.

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: Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Space Techniques and Earth Observation -- Chapter 2: Natural Hazards in the MENA Region -- Part II: Applications of Space Techniques for the MENA Region -- Chapter 3: Open Data and Tools for Multispectral Satellite Analysis of Desert Sand Dunes Migration: Case Studies in the MENA Region -- Chapter 4: How Severe is Water Stress in the MENA Region? Insights from GRACE and GRACE-FO Satellites and Global Hydrological Modeling -- Chapter 5: The Application of Remote Sensing on the Studies of Mean Sea Level Rise in the Arabian Gulf -- Chapter 6: Assessment of Vulnerability, Risk, and Adaptation of MENA Region to SLR by Remote Sensing and GIS -- Part III: Case Studies: Space techniques and Natural Hazards in the MENA Region -- Chapter 7: Use of satellite images and GIS for the assessment of natural hazards in Western Saudi Arabia -- Chapter 8: Remote Sensing and GIS application for Natural Hazards Assessment of the Mauritanian coastal zone -- Chapter 9: Remote sensing studies on monitoring natural hazards over cultural heritage sites in Cyprus -- Chapter 10: Flooding hazard assessment considering climate change in the coastal areas of Algeria based on a remote sensing and GIS data base -- Chapter 11: Geographical information systems (GIS) and multi-criteria analysis approach for flood risk mapping: case of Kasserine region, Tunisia -- Chapter 12: Applications of remote sensing techniques in earthquake and flood risk assessment in the Cyrenaica region, Al Jabal Al Akhdar area, NE Libya -- Integrated Methodology for Urban Flood Risk Mapping at the Microscale in Ungauged Regions: A Case Study of Hurghada, Egypt -- Chapter 14: Application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System Techniques to Flood and Rainwater Harvesting: Case Study of Sennar, Sudan -- Chapter 15: Drought Assessment Using GIS and Remote Sensing in Jordan -- Chapter 16: Using Remote Sensing Techniques for Identifying the Environmental and Quantitative Indices of Drought in Tihama, Yemen -- Chapter 17: Assessment of drought impact on agricultural production using remote sensing and machine learning techniques in Kairouan prefecture, Tunisia -- Chapter 18: Quantitative assessment of land sensitivity to desertification in Central Sudan: An application of remote sensing-based MEDALUS Model -- Chapter 19: Selected benchmark for landslides susceptibility assessments in Northern Morocco -- Chapter 20: A Geophysical and Remote Sensing-based Approach for Monitoring Land Subsidence in Saudi Arabia -- Chapter 21: Landslide Susceptibility Map Production of Aden Peninsula - South West of Yemen -- Chapter 22: The use of Earth Observation data in wildfire fire risk management: a case study from Lebanon -- Chapter 23: Avalanche hazards with mitigation in Turkey and qualitative risk assessment for snow avalanches in Ayder (Rize, NE Turkey) using combination of GIS, remote sensing techniques and field studies -- Chapter 24: Space techniques to recognize seismological and geomorphological features in Libya -- Chapter 25: Seismological and remote sensing studies in the Dead Sea zone, Jordan 1987-2021 -- Chapter 26: Study of soil erosion risks using remote sensing and in Ouergha River watershed.

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: Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Agricultural and Field Robotics: An Introduction -- Part I. Sensing and Machine Vision -- Chapter 2. Sensors I: Color Imaging and Basics of Image Processing -- Chapter 3. Sensors II: 3D Sensing Techniques and Systems -- Chapter 4. Sensors III: Spectral Sensing and Data Analysis -- Chapter 5. Crop Scouting and Surrounding Awareness for Specialty Crops -- Chapter 6. Crop Sensing and Its Application in Precision Agriculture and Crop Phenotyping -- Part II: Mechanisms, Dynamics and Control -- Chapter 7. Robotic Manipulation and Optimization for Agricultural and Field Applications -- Chapter 8. End-effector Technologies -- Chapter 9. Control Techniques in Robotic Harvesting -- Chapter 10. Guidance, Auto-Steering Systems and Control -- Chapter 11. Automated Infield Sorting and Handling of Apples -- Chapter 12. Modeling, Simulation and Visualization of Agricultural and Field Robotic Systems -- Part III: Emerging Topics in Agricultural and Field Robotics -- Chapter 13. Advanced Learning and Classification Techniques for Agricultural and Field Robotics -- Chapter 14. Digital Farming and Field Robotics - Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and Big Data -- Chapter 15. Human-Machine Interactions -- Chapter 16. Machinery-Canopy Interactions in Tree Fruit Crops -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction and Basic Sensing Concepts -- Chapter 2. Satellite Remote Sensing for Precision Agriculture -- Chapter 3. Sensing Crop Geometry and Structure -- Chapter 4. Soil Sensing -- Chapter 5. Sensing with Wireless Sensor Networks -- Chapter 6. Sensing for Health, Vigour and Disease Detection in Row and Grain Crops -- Chapter 7. On-Combine Sensing Techniques in Arable Crops -- Chapter 8. Sensing in Precision Horticulture -- Chapter 9. Sensing from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles -- Chapter 10. Sensing for Weed Detection -- Chapter 11. Applications of Sensing To Precision Irrigation -- Chapter 12. Applications of Optical Sensing of Crop Health and Vigour -- Chapter 13. Applications of Sensing for Disease Detection -- Chapter 14. Conclusions: Future Directions in Sensing for Precision Agriculture -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Groundwater and Society: Applications of Geospatial Technology (Pravat Kumar Shit, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Partha Pratim Adhikary, Ch. Jyotiprava Dash) -- Part I: Groundwater resources and societal development -- Chapter 2. Groundwater and Society in India: Challenging Issues and Adaptive Strategies (Subrata Jana) -- Chapter 3. Groundwater Research and Societal Development: Integration with Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit, Partha Pratim Adhikary and Debashish Sengupta) -- Chapter 4. Geospatial and Geophysical Approaches for Assessment of Groundwater Resources in an Alluvial Aquifer of India (Partha Pratim Adhikary, S.K.Dubey, Debashis Chakraborty, Ch. Jyotiprava Dash) -- Chapter 5. Groundwater and Space Technology: Issues and challenges (Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit, Harsha Das Gupta, Partha Pratim Adhikary) -- Part II: Groundwater availability, quality and pollution -- Chapter 6. Groundwater Quality through Multi-criteria based GIS Analysis: Village Level Assessment (Baisakhi Chakraborty, Sambhunath Roy, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Debashish Sengupta, Pravat Kumar Shit) -- Chapter 7. GIS-based Fuzzy-AHP Approach for Assessment of Groundwater Potential Zones of an Urban Agglomeration (Suraj Kumar Mallick, Somnath Rudra) -- Chapter 8. Assessment of Groundwater Availability in Gumani River Basin, India using Geoinformatics and Analytical Hierarchy Process (Sadik Mahammad, Aznarul Islam) -- Chapter 9. Application of AHP for Groundwater Potential Zones Mapping in Plateau Fringe Terrain: Study from Western Province of West Bengal (Manas Karmakar, Monali Banerjee, Mrinal Mandal, Debasis Ghosh) -- Chapter 10. Performance of Frequency Ratio Approach for Mapping of Groundwater Prospect Areas in an Area of Mixed Topography (Subhas Garai, Pulakesh Das) -- Chapter 11. Artificial Neural Network for Identification of Groundwater Potential Zones in part of Hugli District, West Bengal, India (Chalantika Laha Salui and Shashank Yadav) -- Chapter 12. Multi-criteria Analysis for Groundwater Quality Assessment: A Study in Paschim Barddhaman District of West Bengal, India (Payel Das, Niladri Das) -- Chapter 13. Performance of WQI and HPI for Groundwater Quality Assessment: Study from Sangramgarh Colliery of West Burdwan District, West Bengal, India (Tanushree Paul, Manas Nath) -- Chapter 14. Assessment of Groundwater Quality interaction using One-decade Data: Case Study from a Hard Rock Area (S. Satheeshkumar, S. Venkateswaran, T. Maheshwari) -- Chapter 15. Fluoride Dynamics in Precambrian Hard Rock Terrain of North Singbhum Craton and Effect of Fluorosis on Human Health and Society (Biswajit Bera, Sumana Bhattacharjee, Meelan Chamling, Arijit Ghosh, Nairita Sengupta, Supriya Ghosh) -- Chapter 16. Coastal Aquifer Vulnerability for Saltwater Intrusion: A Case Study of Chennai Coast Using GALDIT Model and Geoinformatics (Debabrata Ghorai, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit) -- Part III: Sustainable Groundwater resources management -- Chapter 17. Watershed Development Impact on Natural Resources: Groundwater and Surface Water Utilization (Partha Pratim Adhikary, M. Madhu, P. Jakhar, B.S. Naik, H.C. Hombegowda, D. Barman, G.B. Naik, Ch. J. Dash) -- Chapter 18. Long-term Groundwater Behaviour over an Agriculturally Developed State of North-West India: Trend and Impact on Agriculture (Omvir Singh, Amrita Kasana, Pankaj Bhardwaj) -- Chapter 19. Spatial Appraisals of Groundwater Recharge Potential Zone Identification using Remote Sensing and GIS (Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pranab Kumar Maity, Pravat Kumar Shit) -- Chapter 20. Spatial Mapping of Groundwater Depth to Prioritize the Areas under Water Stress in Rayalaseema Region of Andhra Pradesh, India (Ch. Jyotiprava Dash, PP Adhikary, Uday Mandal) -- Chapter 21. Exploring Vulnerability of Groundwater using AHP and GIS Techniques: A Study in Cooch Behar District, West Bengal, India (Dipankar Saha, Debasish Talukdar, Ujjal Senapati, Tapan Kumar Das) -- Chapter 22. Applicability of Geospatial Technology, Weight of Evidence and Multilayer Perceptron for Groundwater Management: A Geoscientific Study on Birbhum District, West Bengal, India (Niladri Das, Subhasish Sutradhar, Ranajit Ghosh, Prolay Mondal) -- Chapter 23. Water resources management in semi-arid Purulia District of West Bengal, in the context of sustainable development goals (Amit Bera, Shubhamita Das).

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: Part I: Introduction to Landscapes and Landforms of Norway, Geomorphological Landscapes, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms in Norway -- The Climate of Norway -- Part II Case Studies of Varied Landscapes, Geomorphological Processes and Landforms in Norway, Terminal Moraine Formation Processes and Geomorphology of Glacier Forelands at Selected Outlet Glaciers of Jostedalsbreen, South Norway -- Recent Glacier Changes and Formation of new Proglacial Lakes at the Jostedalsbreen Ice Cap in Southwest Norway -- Paraglacial Rock-Slope Failure Following Deglaciation in Western Norway -- The Snow-Avalanche Impact Landforms of Vestlandet, Southern Norway -- Fluvial Processes and Contemporary Fluvial Denudation in Different Mountain Landscapes in Western and Central Norway -- Periglacial Landforms in Jotunheimen, Central Southern Norway, and Their Altitudinal Distribution -- Characterization of Scree Slopes in the Rondane Mountains (South-Central Norway) -- Morphological Description of Erosional and Depositional Landforms Formed by Debris Flow Processes in Mainland Norway -- Part III The Status and Value of Geomorphological Heritage in Norway, Landforms and Geomorphosite Designation on Mount Gausta (Telemark) -- Selection of Geomorphosites in the Dovrefjell National Park (Central Norway) -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to Agro-geoinformatics: Theory and Practices -- Chapter 2: Remote sensing for agriculture -- Chapter 3. GIS fundamentals for agriculture -- Chapter 4. Agro-geoinformatics data sources and sourcing -- Chapter 5. Standards and interoperability -- Chapter 6. Image processing methods in agricultural observation systems -- Chapter 7. Data Fusion in Agricultural Information Systems -- Chapter 8. Big Data and its Applications in Agro-Geoinformatics -- Chapter 9. Land Parcel Identification -- Chapter 10. Crop Pattern and Status Monitoring -- Chapter 11. Crop Growth Modeling and Yield Forecasting -- Chapter 12. Spatial and Temporal Monitoring System for Agriculture -- Chapter 13. Spatial Data Usage in Turkish Agriculture -- Chapter 14. Geospatial Land Use and Land Cover Data for Improving Agricultural Area Sampling Frames -- Chapter 15. Mapping and Monitoring of Soil Moisture, Evapotranspiration and Agricultural Drought -- Chapter 16. Flood Monitoring and Crop Damage Assessment -- Chapter 17. Remote sensing-based mapping of plastic-mulched landcover -- Chapter 18. Design and Implementation of Geospatial Data Services for Agriculture. .

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Geomorphological thresholds and sand mining -- Sediment budget and mining area detection using RUSLE and SDR models -- Sediment analysis and mining intensity using G-stat, Grad-stat, Sed-log, LDF techniques -- Interruption on alluvial channel flow and sediment transport in quarried alluvial river: Application of different hydraulic techniques -- Impact of instream sand mining on river ecology using WQI, Biodiversity index, HSI, MLR -- Economic audit and Proposed sustainable sand mining using Optimization model and EIA.

Description / Table of Contents: Russian and Soviet Cartography: A Concise History -- An Introduction to Soviet Military City Plans -- Towards an Ontogenetic Approach to Soviet Military City Plans: a Post-Representational Epistemology -- Developing an Approach to Analysing Soviet City Plans -- The Methodology -- Analysing the Symbology of Soviet Military City Plans -- Discussion.