Geographical Information Science

Case Studies in Earth and Environmental Monitoring

1st Edition - May 3, 2024
Editors: George P. Petropoulos, Christos Chalkias
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 6 0 5 - 4
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Geographical Information Science: Case Studies in Earth and Environmental Monitoring provides detailed remote sensing and GIS methods and algorithms and technology comparisons, focusing on a wide range of environmental applications. The geoinformation technologies are demonstrated through templated case studies detailing real world use of the techniques and clarifying methods, tools, and practical solutions to environmental mapping and monitoring. The book utilizes remote sensing and geospatial data from the most recently launched satellites and applies the latest geospatial data approaches and analysis software tools (both commercial and open source).

This book is a comprehensive reference for researchers, academics and technicians in the fields of geospatial science & technology, remote sensing, and environmental science; or those processing and analyzing geospatial data for monitoring and modelling.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
List of contributors
Preface
Section 1. Natural environment
Chapter 1. Identification of geomorphic and morphotectonic features using geographic information system techniques
1. Introduction
2. Geomorphometry
3. Identification and mapping of landforms—specific geomorphometry
4. Morphometric indices of active tectonics
5. Conclusions
6. Key takeaway and future research
Chapter 2. Monitoring snow by combining physical snow models and microwave remote sensing techniques: two case studies from northern Finland
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Results and discussion
4. Conclusions
Chapter 3. Is there any pure nature left? A geospatial analysis approach of perceived landscape naturalness
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Results
4. Validation
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Chapter 4. Spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation regeneration dynamics in a natural Mediterranean ecosystem using EO imagery and Google Earth Engine cloud platform
1. Introduction
2. Study area
3. Datasets
4. Methods
5. Results
6. Discussion
7. Conclusions
Chapter 5. Understanding and monitoring the dynamics of Arctic permafrost regions under climate change using Earth Observation and cloud computing: The contribution of EO-PERSIST project
1. Climate change and impacts
2. Arctic and permafrost regions and climate change
3. EO data for climate change available for the Arctic
4. Introducing EO-PERSIST (https://eo-persist.eu/)
5. Conclusions and future outlook
Section 2. Agricultural environment
Chapter 6. Development of algorithms based on the integration of vegetation indices and meteorological data for the identification of low productivity agricultural areas
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Methodology
4. Results
5. Conclusions
Chapter 7. A comprehensive framework for multiscale soil erosion modeling: A case study of Pag Island, Croatia
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Estimation of soybean productivity in a crop livestock integration system from orbital imagens and simplified triangle method
1. Introduction
2. Triangle model and agrometeorological estimation of agricultural productivity
3. Simplified triangle method
4. Material and methods
5. Obtaining productivity in the field and acquiring data
6. Application of the simplified triangle method
7. Productivity estimate
8. Results evaluation
9. Results and discussion
10. Productivity estimate
11. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Desertification risk in agricultural areas under current and future climate conditions—a case study
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Results and discussion
4. Conclusions
Chapter 10. An evaluation of SMAP soil moisture product using in situ data and Google Earth Engine: A case study from Greece
1. Introduction
2. Experimental setup
3. Methodology
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Section 3. Coastal/aquatic environment
Chapter 11. Charting the changes: Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing study on soil erosion and coastal transformations in Maliakos Gulf, Greece
1. Introduction
2. Data and methodology
3. Results and discussion
4. Concluding remarks
Chapter 12. Exploring aquatic environments through geographical information science: A comprehensive review and applications
1. Introduction
2. Role of GIS in environmental monitoring
3. GIS in water environment monitoring and risk assessment
4. GIS in coastal ecosystem management
5. Challenges and future recommendations
6. Conclusion
Chapter 13. Assessing coastal vulnerability to climate change-induced hazards in the Eastern Mediterranean: A comparative review of methodological approaches
1. Introduction
2. Climate change impacts on coastal areas of the Mediterranean Sea
3. Revealing the vulnerability of the coastal areas during climate change
4. Assessing coastal vulnerability through index-based methodologies
5. Conclusion
6. Key takeaways
Chapter 14. Advances in geographical information science for monitoring and managing deltaic environments: Processes, parameters, and methodological insights
1. Introduction—theoretical framework
2. Methodological approaches
3. Key takeaways
Section 4. Urban environment
Chapter 15. Dynamic modeling of urban hydrology in a geographic information system-setting with TFM-DYN
1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Chapter 16. Geospatial tools for cultural heritage education: innovations in teaching and learning through massive open online courses
1. Introduction
2. The complexity of the teaching-learning process of cultural heritage
3. Theoretical and methodological framework
4. Planning a MOOC on geotechnologies for cultural heritage
5. Instead of an epilogue
Chapter 17. Urbanization trends from global to the local scale
1. Intoduction
2. Methods and materials
3. Results
4. Conclusion remarks
Chapter 18. Mapping and monitoring night light pollution
1. Introduction
2. Data and methods for mapping night light pollution
3. Applications and case studies
4. Concluding remarks—Future research directions
Chapter 19. Crowdsourcing applications for monitoring the urban environment
1. Introduction
2. Monitoring physical aspects in urban environments
3. Monitoring social aspects in urban environments
4. Limitation and challenges
5. Conclusions
Section 5. Atmosphere/air environment
Chapter 20. Revealing air quality dynamics: Leveraging remote sensing and GIS for active monitoring and risk evaluation
1. Introduction
2. Earth observation and GIS in science: Advantages and limitations
3. Air quality parameters used for air quality mapping
4. Remote sensing and GIS techniques used for air quality mapping
5. Conclusion
Funding
Chapter 21. Spatial distribution of noise levels in the Historic Centre of Athens in Greece using geoinformation technologies
1. Introduction
2. Experimental setup
3. Methodology
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Chapter 22. Exploring the effect of the first lockdown due to covid-19 to atmospheric NO2 using Sentinel 5P satellite data, Google Earth Engine and Geographic Information Systems
1. Introduction
2. Study area
3. Methodology
4. Results
5. Final remarks
Section 6. Natural disasters
Chapter 23. Recent advances and future trends in operational burned area mapping using remote sensing
1. Introduction
2. Remote sensing in operational burned area mapping
3. Operational burned area mapping products
4. Challenges and future trends
5. Conclusions
Chapter 24. Techniques and tools for monitoring agriculture drought: A review
1. Introduction
2. Drought types and their propagation
3. Agriculture drought monitoring tools and techniques
4. Challenges and way forward
Chapter 25. Exploring the use of random forest classifier with Sentinel-2 imagery in flooded area mapping
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Chapter 26. Landslide susceptibility assessment and mapping in Breaza town, Romania
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Landslide susceptibility assessment
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusions
Index

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