Overview
- Brings together multi-disciplinary techniques to support the acquisition, analysis, and visualisation of geodata
- Includes numerous colour photos, as well as relevant and practical examples
- Features special chapters on applications and updated technologies involving big data and new challenges
Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)
Part of the book sub series: Environmental Science (ENVSCIENCE)
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Environmental Geodesy
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Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry
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Front Matter
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Geographic Information Systems
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About this book
Moreover, with the ever-increasing global population, intense pressure is being exerted on the Earth’s resources, leading to significant changes in its land cover (e.g., deforestation), diminishing biodiversity and natural habitats, dwindling fresh water supplies, and changing weather and climatic patterns (e.g., global warming, changing sea level). Environmental monitoring techniques that provide information on these are under scrutiny from an increasingly environmentally conscious society that demands the efficient delivery of such information at a minimal cost. Environmental changes vary both spatially and temporally, thereby putting pressure on traditional methods of data acquisition, some of which are highly labour intensive, such as animal tracking for conservation purposes. With these challenges, conventional monitoring techniques, particularly those that record spatial changes call for more sophisticated approaches that deliver the necessary information at an affordable cost. One direction being pursued in the development of such techniques involves environmental geoinformatics, which can act as a stand-alone method or complement traditional methods.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Professor John Kiema is currently the Director of Technical Services, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) having first served as Director of Remote Sensing, GIS and Mapping at RCMRD. He is also Associate Professor, Department of Geospatial and Space Technology, University of Nairobi (Kenya). He obtained his BSc, MSc degrees in Surveying and Postgraduate Diploma (Computer Science) from the University of Nairobi (Kenya). He was awarded a merit scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD), which facilitated his obtaining PhD in Remote Sensing and GIS at Karlsruhe (Germany). He has published widely and supervised postgraduate degrees. He is the immediate past Executive Secretary of the Eastern Africa Land Administration Network (EALAN) and during his sabbatical leave in Rwanda he helped mentor and the first ever Land Survey graduates in the history of Rwanda. In his current post Prof. Kiema is in-charge of all technical activities at RCMRD including the SERVIR Project that is a Partnership between NASA, USAID, and RCMRD and Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) & Africa an initiative of the European Union (EU) and African Union (AU). Prof. Kiema also serves in the Steering Committee of Group of Earth Observation (GEO) on Disaster Risk Management (GEO-DARMA) and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) Advisory Committee. He is also Executive Board Chairman, Working Group on Land Cover for Africa (WGLCA) and member of Kenya National Academy of Sciences (MKNAS).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Geoinformatics
Book Subtitle: Extreme Hydro-Climatic and Food Security Challenges: Exploiting the Big Data
Authors: Joseph Awange, John Kiema
Series Title: Environmental Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03017-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03016-2Published: 17 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03017-9Published: 08 December 2018
Series ISSN: 1863-5520
Series E-ISSN: 1863-5539
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIV, 635
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 233 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Science and Engineering, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Civil Engineering, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)