Environmental Geoinformatics Monitoring and Management /

• Main Authors: Awange, Joseph L. (Author), Kyalo Kiema, John B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Environmental Science and Engineering,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Environmental sciences.; Remote sensing.; Earth Sciences.; Environmental Science and Engineering.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.

There is no doubt that today, perhaps more than ever before, humanity faces a myriad of complex and demanding challenges. These include natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, food and water insecurity, energy shortages, diminishing biodiversity, increasing losses from natural disa...

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.