Geospatial Technologies and Climate Change

This book describes international approaches for using geospatial technologies to help solve climate change issues, and shows how geospatial technologies like remote sensing and Geographical Information Systems can assist with climate monitoring and modeling.

Geospatial Technologies and Climate Change describes various approaches from different countries on how to use geospatial technologies to help solving climate change issues. It also details how different geospatial technologies (remote sensing, Geographical Information System…) can be used to help with climate monitoring and modeling, how to work with them and what to be careful about. This book is written by scientific experts from four different continents. Written in a comprehensive and complete way, this book is essential reading material for graduate and undergraduate students interested in these techniques and in climate change.

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 over Indo-Gangetic basin and their impact on Regional climate, precipitation, Himalayan snow/glaciers and Ocean-Ecology supplement.- Impact of Climate Change on Coral Reefs.- Landslide disaster management.- Studies on mangrove Regeneration in tsunami affected area of port blair, south Andaman using in situ and remote sensing techniques.- Phyto and Zooplankton community assemblages of 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, Resilience: Application of ArcGIS in building small island’s resilience to Climate Change.- Evaluation of remote-sensing-based potential fishing zones (PFZs) advisories along Mumbai coast.- Application of geo-spatial technologies in Coastal Vulnerability studies due to Sea Level  Rise (SLR) along the select regions of Indian coast.Geospatial Technologies: Exploring their Technical Potential in Climate Change Research.- Generation of Morphometric Information Using Satellite Images Satellite Geoid/Gravity for Offshore Exploration.- Modelling of climate and climate projection: A data intensive paradigm.- DGPS Principles, Errors and Achievable Accuracies.- Fundamentals of Geographical Information System (GIS), Map Sources and Digital Map Preparation.- Generation of Morphometric Information Using Satellite Images.- Fundamentals of Remotesensing.