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020 _a9783642340857
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024 7 _a10.1007/978-3-642-34085-7
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100 1 _aAwange, Joseph L.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aEnvironmental Geoinformatics
_h[electronic resource] :
_bMonitoring and Management /
_cby Joseph L. Awange, John B. Kyalo Kiema.
264 1 _aBerlin, Heidelberg :
_bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2013.
300 _aXX, 541 p. 214 illus., 202 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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490 1 _aEnvironmental Science and Engineering,
_x1863-5520
505 0 _aEnvironmental 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.
520 _aThere 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 disasters, and climate change with its associated potentially devastating consequences, such as rising sea levels. These human-induced and natural impacts on the environment need to be well understood in order to develop informed policies, decisions, and remedial measures to mitigate current and future negative impacts. To achieve this, continuous monitoring and management of the environment to acquire data that can be soundly and rigorously analyzed to provide information about its current state and changing patterns, and thereby allow predictions of possible future impacts, are essential. Developing pragmatic and sustainable solutions to address these and many other similar challenges requires the use of geodata and the application of geoinformatics. This book presents the concepts and applications of geoinformatics, a multidisciplinary field that has at its core different technologies that support the acquisition, analysis and visualization of geodata for environmental monitoring and management. We depart from the 4D to the 5D data paradigm, which defines geodata accurately, consistently, rapidly and completely, in order to be useful without any restrictions in space, time or scale to represent a truly global dimension of the digital Earth. The book also features the state-of-the-art discussion of Web-GIS. The concepts and applications of geoinformatics presented in this book will be of benefit to decision-makers across a wide range of fields, including those at environmental agencies, in the emergency services, public health and epidemiology, crime mapping, environmental management agencies, tourist industry, market analysis and e-commerce, or mineral exploration, among many others. The title and subtitle of this textbook convey a distinct message. Monitoring -the passive part in the subtitle - refers to observation and data acquisition, whereas management - the active component - stands for operation and performance. The topic is our environment, which is intimately related to geoinformatics. The overall message is: all the mentioned elements do interact and must not be separated.  Hans-Peter B ahr, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c., Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.
650 0 _aEarth sciences.
650 0 _aEnvironmental sciences.
650 0 _aRemote sensing.
650 1 4 _aEarth Sciences.
650 2 4 _aEnvironmental Science and Engineering.
650 2 4 _aEnvironmental Monitoring/Analysis.
650 2 4 _aRemote Sensing/Photogrammetry.
700 1 _aKyalo Kiema, John B.
_eauthor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783642340840
830 0 _aEnvironmental Science and Engineering,
_x1863-5520
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34085-7
912 _aZDB-2-EES
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
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