Preface
Global change studies are growingly considered a vital source of information to
understand the Earth environment, especially in the framework of human-induced
climate change and land use transformation. Earth observing systems and
geomatics technologies provide a unique tool to monitor and model those changes,
respectively. While the range of applications and innovative techniques is constantly increasing, this book provides a summary of key study cases where the Earth
observation data offers critical information to understand both the causes and
consequences of global change and the geomatics technologies provide powerful
tools to model and analyze the effects of those global environmental changes,
toward minimizing their negative impacts.
This book focuses on the monitoring and modeling aspects in global changes and
provides the state of the art in geomatics technologies for detecting and modeling
global landscape dynamics.
This volume includes 15 chapters, which are organized in five topics:
• Monitoring and Modeling of Land Use Changes (Chaps. 1 and 2)
• Monitoring and Analyzing of Urban Dynamics (Chaps. 3, 4, and 5)
• Monitoring and Mapping Environmental Changes (Chaps. 6, 7, and 8)
• Environmental Modeling and Risk Assessment (Chaps. 9, 10, 11, and 12)
• Earth Observation Data Processing (Chaps. 13, 14, and 15)
Chapters are written by leading scholars and researchers from a variety of fields,
including remote sensing, geoinformatics, geography, and environmental science,
with case studies predominately drawn from North America, Europe, and Asia.
This volume will be of greatest interest to graduates and undergraduates studying geography, geosciences, and environmental sciences and to researchers and
professionals working in the fields of remote sensing, geographic information
sciences, climate change studies, environmental modeling, and risk assessment.
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Global change studies are growingly considered a vital source of information to
understand the Earth environment, especially in the framework of human-induced
climate change and land use transformation. Earth observing systems and
geomatics technologies provide a unique tool to monitor and model those changes,
respectively. While the range of applications and innovative techniques is constantly increasing, this book provides a summary of key study cases where the Earth
observation data offers critical information to understand both the causes and
consequences of global change and the geomatics technologies provide powerful
tools to model and analyze the effects of those global environmental changes,
toward minimizing their negative impacts.
This book focuses on the monitoring and modeling aspects in global changes and
provides the state of the art in geomatics technologies for detecting and modeling
global landscape dynamics.
This volume includes 15 chapters, which are organized in five topics:
• Monitoring and Modeling of Land Use Changes (Chaps. 1 and 2)
• Monitoring and Analyzing of Urban Dynamics (Chaps. 3, 4, and 5)
• Monitoring and Mapping Environmental Changes (Chaps. 6, 7, and 8)
• Environmental Modeling and Risk Assessment (Chaps. 9, 10, 11, and 12)
• Earth Observation Data Processing (Chaps. 13, 14, and 15)
Chapters are written by leading scholars and researchers from a variety of fields,
including remote sensing, geoinformatics, geography, and environmental science,
with case studies predominately drawn from North America, Europe, and Asia.
This volume will be of greatest interest to graduates and undergraduates studying geography, geosciences, and environmental sciences and to researchers and
professionals working in the fields of remote sensing, geographic information
sciences, climate change studies, environmental modeling, and risk assessment.
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