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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 (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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User’s Guide to the Atlas and Glossary
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Front Matter
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Classification of Geohazard-Related Geounits
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Front Matter
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Data Sets of the Atlas and Glossary of the Geounits and Variants
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Globally there has been a marked increase in both the frequency and cost of natural disasters occurring due to geological, hydrological and meteorological causes. According to the United States National Academy of Sciences losses caused by natural disasters have quadrupled in the last twenty years. This book, conceived as a technical manual deals with various aspects of geohazards - using photogeology and remote sensing. It is unique in that the succinct text supports the illustrations, and is aimed at geoscience professionals and university students, devised as a quick-reference standardized presentation of 177 globally occurring photo-geomorphological units and an equal number of variants derived from a comprehensive image-resolvable and ordered genetic classification of geounits. The selected geounits are uniquely classed and identified as either agents of, or susceptible to, one or more of the 14 general types of geohazards. The data set of each geounit systematically integrates characterizing graphics, ground- and air- perspective photos to introduce interpreted aerospace mono/stereoscopic photos and images demonstrating their detectability and mappability.
Authors and Affiliations
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St. Lambert, Canada
L. A. Rivard
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geohazard-associated Geounits
Book Subtitle: Atlas and Glossary
Authors: L. A. Rivard
Series Title: Environmental Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b93844
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-20296-7Published: 14 April 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51772-7Published: 05 May 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-68885-3Published: 24 December 2009
Series ISSN: 1863-5520
Series E-ISSN: 1863-5539
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 1056
Topics: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Earth Sciences, general, Biogeosciences, Geology, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography