Geospatial Technology for Water Resource Applications

Geospatial Technology for Water Resource Applications
Author: Prashant K. Srivastava
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2016-07-26
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1498719694
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This book advances the scientific understanding, development, and application of geospatial technologies related to water resource management. It presents recent developments and applications specifically by utilizing new earth observation datasets such as TRMM/GPM, AMSR E/2, SMOS, SMAP and GCOM in combination with GIS, artificial intelligence, and hybrid techniques. By linking geospatial techniques with new satellite missions for earth and environmental science, the book promotes the synergistic and multidisciplinary activities of scientists and users working in the field of hydrological sciences.

Geospatial Applications for Climate Adaptation Planning

Geospatial Applications for Climate Adaptation Planning
Author: Diana Mitsova
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351113933
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Climate adaptation is a timely yet complex topic that does not fit squarely into any one disciplinary realm. Geospatial Applications for Climate Adaptation Planning presents an overview of the range of strategies, tools, and techniques that must be used to assess myriad overlapping vulnerabilities and to formulate appropriate climate-relevant solutions at multiple scales and in varying contexts. Organized into four sections, the book includes 15 chapters. Each chapter is grounded in the literature and presents case studies designed by the authors, as well as many examples from a diverse international group of scholars and entities in the public and private sectors. Areas covered include: Climate Change and Climate Adaptation Planning: Context and Concepts Geospatial Technologies: Fundamentals and Terminology GIS and Climate Vulnerability Assessments Technical Approaches to Formulating Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies Geospatial Applications for Climate Adaptation Planning is aimed at advanced students, researchers, and entities in the public and private sectors. It also provides supplementary reading for courses in planning, public administration, policy studies, and disaster management.

Applications and Challenges of Geospatial Technology

Applications and Challenges of Geospatial Technology
Author: Pavan Kumar
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2018-11-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 331999882X
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This book advances the scientific understanding and application of space-based technologies to address a variety of areas related to sustainable development; including environmental systems analysis, environmental management, clean processes, green chemistry, and green engineering. Geo-spatial techniques have gained considerable interest in recent decades among the earth and environmental science communities for solving and understanding various complex problems and approaches towards sustainable technologies. The book encompasses several scopes of interests on sustainable technologies in areas such as water resources, forestry, remote sensing, meteorology, atmospheric and oceanic modeling, environmental engineering and management, civil engineering, air and environmental pollution, water quality problems, etc. The book will appeal to people with an interest in geo-spatial techniques, sustainable development and other diverse backgrounds within earth and environmental sciences field.

Spatial Databases

Spatial Databases
Author: Philippe Rigaux
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2002
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781558605886
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The authors explore and explain current techniques for handling the specialised data that describes geographical phenomena in a study that will be of great value to computer scientists and geographers working with spatial databases.

Discovery of Geospatial Resources: Methodologies, Technologies, and Emergent Applications

Discovery of Geospatial Resources: Methodologies, Technologies, and Emergent Applications
Author: Díaz, Laura
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 146660946X
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"This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research finding to improve understanding of geospatial discovery methodologies and technologies, as well as techniques to design and deploy geospatial resources in Information Infrastructures"--Provided by publisher.

Open Source Geospatial Tools

Open Source Geospatial Tools
Author: Daniel McInerney
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2014-11-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319018248
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This book focuses on the use of open source software for geospatial analysis. It demonstrates the effectiveness of the command line interface for handling both vector, raster and 3D geospatial data. Appropriate open-source tools for data processing are clearly explained and discusses how they can be used to solve everyday tasks. A series of fully worked case studies are presented including vector spatial analysis, remote sensing data analysis, landcover classification and LiDAR processing. A hands-on introduction to the application programming interface (API) of GDAL/OGR in Python/C++ is provided for readers who want to extend existing tools and/or develop their own software.

Geospatial Data Analytics and Urban Applications

Geospatial Data Analytics and Urban Applications
Author: Sandeep Narayan Kundu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2022-01-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9811676496
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This book highlights advanced applications of geospatial data analytics to address real-world issues in urban society. With a connected world, we are generating spatial at unprecedented rates which can be harnessed for insightful analytics which define the way we analyze past events and define the future directions. This book is an anthology of applications of spatial data and analytics performed on them for gaining insights which can be used for problem solving in an urban setting. Each chapter is contributed by spatially aware data scientists in the making who present spatial perspectives drawn on spatial big data. The book shall benefit mature researchers and student alike to discourse a variety of urban applications which display the use of machine learning algorithms on spatial big data for real-world problem solving.

Geospatial Data Science Techniques and Applications

Geospatial Data Science Techniques and Applications
Author: Hassan A. Karimi
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1351855980
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Data science has recently gained much attention for a number of reasons, and among them is Big Data. Scientists (from almost all disciplines including physics, chemistry, biology, sociology, among others) and engineers (from all fields including civil, environmental, chemical, mechanical, among others) are faced with challenges posed by data volume, variety, and velocity, or Big Data. This book is designed to highlight the unique characteristics of geospatial data, demonstrate the need to different approaches and techniques for obtaining new knowledge from raw geospatial data, and present select state-of-the-art geospatial data science techniques and how they are applied to various geoscience problems.

Geospatial Technology

Geospatial Technology
Author:
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Total Pages: 115
Release: 2020
Genre: Water-supply
ISBN: 9783030249762
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This book aims to exchange and share the experiences and research results on the geospatial technology applied in water resources management. It will present the most recent innovations, trends, challenges encountered and the solutions adopted in the area of geospatial technology. It will be beneficial for academicians, scientists, meteorologists, and consultants working in the field of water resources management.

Advances and Applications in Geospatial Technology and Earth Resources

Advances and Applications in Geospatial Technology and Earth Resources
Author: Dieu Tien Bui
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2017-10-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319682407
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This book discusses the latest advances and applications in geospatial technologies and earth resources for mine surveying and civil engineering. It also discusses mineral resources management and assesses many techniques such as unmanned aerial vehicles/drones, ground-penetrating radar, geographic information system (GIS) and GIS-based machine learning. The book gathers the proceedings of the International Conference on Geo-Spatial Technologies and Earth Resources (GTER 2017), which was co-organized by the Hanoi University of Mining and Geology (HUMG) and the International Society for Mine Surveying (ISM) and held in Hanoi, Vietnam, on October 5–6, 2017. GTER 2017 is technically co-sponsored by the Vietnam Mining Science and Technology Association (VMST), Vietnam Association of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (VGCR), Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited (VINACOMIN), and the Dong Bac Corporation (NECO). The event is intended to bring together experts, researchers, engineers, and policymakers to discuss and exchange their knowledges and experiences with modern geospatial technologies, recent advances in mining and tunneling, and the geological and earth sciences. Given its breadth of coverage, the book will appeal to scientists in the field as well as professionals interested in related technological applications.