Geospatial technologies and climate change

Clasificación: QC 981.8 .C5 G352 2014 | Agregado: 07/10/2020

editado por Janardhanan Sundaresan... [et al.] -- Heidelberg : Springer, 2014.
xvi, 299 p.; 24 cm. -- (Geotechnologies and the environment ; v. 10)
ISBN 978-3-319-01688-7.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
Contenido: Geospatial technologies as impact assessment tools in scoping and monitoring the impact of climate change -- Climate change around the world: Australia, the Netherlands, and India -- Dust storms and their influence on atmospheric parameters over the Indo-Gangetic plains -- Impact of climate change on coral reefs -- Landslide disaster management -- Studies of mangrove regeneration in the tsunami-affected area of Port Blair, South Andaman, India, using in situ and remote sensing techniques -- Phyto- and zooplankton community assemblages on the Car Nicobar Islands, Andaman Sea, India, and its significance with climatic change -- Application of GIS and remote sensing in Landslide hazard zonation -- Geospatial technologies as decision support tools in planning for adaptation and mitigation -- Swarm planning for climate change: how transformations can be achieved -- Maps, knowledge and resilience: application of ArcGIS in building small islands resilience to climate change -- Application of remote sensing in fisheries : role of potential fishing zone advisories -- Application of geo-spatial technologies in coastal vulnerability studies due to Sea Level Rise (SLR) along the Central Orissa Coast, India -- Geospatial technologies: exploring their technical potential in climate change research -- Satellite geoid/gravity for offshore exploration -- Ultra-high resolution global model climate change projection for India: towards a data intensive paradigm -- DGPS principles, errors, and achievable accuracies -- Fundamentals of Geographical Information System (GIS), map resources, and digital map preparation -- Generation of geomorphometric information using satellite images for climate change impacts studies -- Remote sensing basics.