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Subject(s)

• Environmental sciences—Data processing [Browse]
• Environmental sciences—Research—Methodology [Browse]
• Environmental management [Browse]
• Information storage and retrieval systems—Environmental sciences [Browse]

Editor

• Information Resources Management Association [Browse]

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"This book is an innovative reference source for the latest research on the use of information systems for tracking and organizing environmental data for use in an overall environmental management system. Highlighting a range of topics such as environmental analysis, remote sensing, and geographic information science"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Volume 1. Section 1. Fundamental concepts and theories. Chapter 1. Current approaches, challenges, and perspectives on spatial OLAP for agri-environmental analysis ; Chapter 2. Modern cartography and GIS: what the spatial science practitioner should know ; Chapter 3. Social media geographic information: the community perspective in planning knowledge ; Chapter 4. General trends and new perspectives on landslide mapping and assessment methods ; Chapter 5. Nature of geographic knowledge bases ; Chapter 6. Geospatial digital rights management: challenge to global spatial data infrastructure ; Chapter 7. Wildlife habitat evaluation ; Chapter 8. Geography's second twilight: the James R. Anderson distinguished lecture in applied geography
• Section 2. Development and design methodologies. Chapter 9. Urban development modelling: a survey ; Chapter 10. Role of remote sensing in potential fishing zone forecast ; Chapter 11. Swarm intelligence based on remote sensing image fusion: comparison between the particle swarm optimization and the flower pollination algorithm ; Chapter 12. New computational models for image remote sensing and big data ; Chapter 13. Remote sensing-based evapotranspiration modelling for agricultural water management in the Limpopo Basin ; Chapter 14. Enhancing the binary watermark-based data hiding scheme using an interpolation-based approach for optical remote sensing images ; Chapter 15. Supporting aeronautical information management (AIM) through geographic information technologies and spatial data infrastructures (SDI) ; Chapter 16. A feature selection-based method for an ontological enrichment process in geographic knowledge modelling ; Chapter 17. Application of conventional data mining techniques and web mining to aid disaster management ; Chapter 18. Generative trees: architectural modelling of an olive to estimate morphology and radiation relationship ; Chapter 19. Enhanced F-perceptory approach for dealing with geographic data imprecision from the conceptual modeling to the fuzzy geographical database building ; Chapter 20. Decision making under deep uncertainty with fuzzy algorithm in framework of multi-model approach: water pollution risk assessment using satellite data ; Chapter 21. Innovation on user-generated content for environmental noise monitoring and analysis in the context of smart cities ; Chapter 22. Designing an information infrastructure for policy integration of spatial planning and flood risk management ; Chapter 23. Species distribution models (SDM) a strategic tool for predicting suitable habitats for conserving the target species: GIS and special distribution modelling (SDM)
• Volume II. Chapter 24. Bridging the gap between strategic environmental assessment and planning: a geodesign perspective
• Section 3. Tools and technologies. Chapter 25. Genetic-based estimation of biomass using geographical information system: study area vellore ; Chapter 26. Big data and internet of things for analysing and designing systems based on hyperspectral images ; Chapter 27. Aerial and remote sensing archaeology ; Chapter 28. Unsupervised segmentation of remote sensing images using FD based texture analysis model and isodata ; Chapter 29. Landcover change detection using PSO-evaluated quantum CA approach on multi-temporal remote-sensing watershed images ; Chapter 30. The value and scope of GIS in marketing and tourism management ; Chapter 31. Google earth revisited: case studies at the plain of Larissa (Thessaly, Greece) ; Chapter 32. GIS use for mapping land degradation: a review of research carried out in Tunisia ; Chapter 33. Mapping regional landscape by using OpenStreetMap (OSM): a case study to understand forest patterns in Maya Zone, Mexico ; Chapter 34. Assessing performance of leaf area index in a monitored mountain ecosystem on Mount Elgon-Uganda ; Chapter 35. 3D insar phase unwrapping within the compressive sensing framework ; Chapter 36. Participatory geographic information systems within a crowdsourcing environment, with special reference to volunteered geographic information ; Chapter 37. Mapping women's world: GIS and the case of breast cancer in the US ; Chapter 38. Identification of geospatial objects using spectral pattern ; Chapter 39. Forest fire information system using wireless sensor network ; Chapter 40. Archaeogrid science gateways for easy access to distributed computing infrastructure for large data storage and analysis in archaeology and history ; Chapter 41. Digital surveying in cultural heritage: the image-based recording and documentation approaches ; Chapter 42. Measuring dynamics of ecological footprint as an index of environmental sustainability at the regional level using geospatial information technology: measuring ecological footprint using GIS ; Chapter 43. Monitoring changes in urban cover using landsat satellite images and demographical information ; Chapter 44. Harnessing the chaotic: using the participatory geoweb to make sense of forest fires
• Section 4. Utilization and applications. Chapter 45. Applications of active remote sensing technologies for natural disaster damage assessments ; Chapter 46. Land use - terrain correlations in the Piedmont tract of eastern India: a case study of the Dulung River Basin ; Chapter 47. Remote sensing techniques and its application in arid zones of India ; Chapter 48. Geospatial analysis of land loss, land cover change, and landuse patterns of Kutubdia Island, Bangladesh ; Chapter 49. Improving the efficiency of image interpretation using ground truth terrestrial photographs ; Chapter 50. Sircub, a novel approach to recognize agricultural crops using supervised classification
• Volume III. Chapter 51. Indian river watershed image analysis using fuzzy-CA hybrid approach ; Chapter 52. Spatial and temporal patterns of wetland cover changes in East Kolkata wetlands, India from 1972 to 2011 ; Chapter 53. Prediction changes for nonstationary multi-temporal satellite images using HMM ; Chapter 54. Satellite parametric description to ontology concepts and semantic classification of satellite data ; Chapter 55. VGI in the geoweb: an experiment to test data reliability ; Chapter 56. Assessing utilization and effectiveness in public participative and volunteered geographic information systems for environmental data ; Chapter 57. Sugeno fuzzy-inference-system-based land cover classification of remotely sensed images ; Chapter 58. GIS, spatial analysis, and modeling: the case of breast cancer incidence in the US ; Chapter 59. Species distribution modeling of American beech (fagus grandifolia) distribution in southwest Ohio ; Chapter 60. Information mycological systems and traditional ecological knowledge: the case of mycological tourism in Central Mexico ; Chapter 61. Geological and geotechnical investigations in tunneling ; Chapter 62. GIS-based decision support system for village level: a case study in Andhra Pradesh ; Chapter 63. Modeling environmental impacts on viticultural ecosystems: a first case study in a regulated wine producing area ; Chapter 64. Retrospection of globalisation process and the sustainability of natural environment in Developing Countries
• Section 5. Organizational and social implications. Chapter 65. Urban sprawl monitoring using remote sensing and GIS techniques of the City Jaipur, India ; Chapter 66. Agro-geoinformatics, potato cultivation, and climate change ; Chapter 67. Multi-temporal landsat remote sensing for forest landscape fragmentation analysis in the Yoko Forest, Kisangani, DRC ; Chapter 68. Coastline change and erosion-accretion evolution of the Sandwip Island, Bangladesh ; Chapter 69. GIS approach for collaborative monitoring and prediction of environmental noise in urban areas
• Section 6. Critical issues and challenges. Chapter 70. Land surface temperature estimation and urban heat island detection: a remote sensing perspective ; Chapter 71.
• Water quality estimation using combined water chemistry and field spectroscopy in the Shenandoah River, Virginia ; Chapter 72. Anomaly detection in hyperspectral imagery: an overview
• Section 7. Emerging trends. Chapter 73. Automatic estimation of soil biochar quantity via hyperspectral imaging ; Chapter 74. Leveraging volunteered geographic information to improve disaster resilience: lessons learned from AGORA and future research directions ; Chapter 75. Inter and intra cities smartness: a survey on location problems and GIS tools ; Chapter 76. Knowledge extraction from geographical databases for land use data production ; Chapter 77. Streaming remote sensing data processing for the future smart cities: state of the art and future challenges.

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ISBN

9781522570349 (ebook)

OCLC

1050871003

Doi

• 10.4018/978-1-5225-7033-2

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