Environmental Geoinformatics Extreme Hydro-Climatic and Food Security Challenges: Exploiting the Big Data /

• Main Authors: Awange, Joseph (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kiema, John (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Series: Environmental Science,
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Environmental monitoring.; Remote sensing.; Civil engineering.; Space sciences.; Environmental Science and Engineering.; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Civil Engineering.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).

This second edition includes updated chapters from the first edition as well as five additional new chapters (Light detection and ranging (LiDAR), CORONA historical de-classified products, Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs), GNSS-reflectometry and GNSS applications to climate variability), shifting t...

Table of Contents:

• Environmental Monitoring and Management
• Geodata and Geoinformatics
• Fundamentals of Surveying and Geodesy
• Modernization of GNSS
• The Global Positioning System
• Environmental Surveying and Surveillance
• Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
• Optical Remote Sensing
• Microwave Remote Sensing
• Image Interpretation and Analysis
• Fundamentals of Photogrammetry
• Digital Photogrammetry
• CORONA Historical De-classified Products
• Fundamentals of GIS
• Data Models and Structure
• Input of GIS Data
• GIS Database
• Spatial Analysis
• Web GIS and Mapping
• Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles
• Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR)
• Maps in Environmental Monitoring
• Satellite Environmental Sensing
• GNSS Reflectometry and Applications
• Weather, Climate and Global Warming
• GNSS Sensing of Climate Variability
• Water Resources
• Land Management
• Marine and Coastal Resources
• Protection and Conservation of Animals and Vegetation
• Disaster Monitoring and Management
• Environmental Pollution
• Environmental Impact Assessment.