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Predictive Models for the Development of Landslide Early Warning Systems

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2029
  • Biswajeet Pradhan + 1 more
  • English
Predictive Models for the Development of Landslide Early Warning Systems details advanced techniques in implementing landslide early warning systems (LEWS). The book provides a comprehensive resource for practitioners by including different techniques and models in landslide early warning, their practical applications, and case studies. The modeling theory is provided in a detailed but succinct format, verified with onsite models for specific regions and scenarios for different types of landslides and triggering factors. The book covers four main topics, including monitoring, data acquisition, transmission and maintenance of the instruments; analysis and forecasting, forecasting methods, and warning/dissemination of understandable messages alerting. The exportability of different models is discussed in detail and followed by practical demonstrations for expert researchers’ as well as postgraduates’ needs. The book offers in-depth, up-to-date best practices for implementing LEWS based on current effective systems, new technologies, and standard methodologies at global level.

Earth Observation of Soils

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2029
  • Mario Guevara Santamaria + 2 more
  • English
Earth Observation of Soils: Digital Mapping in Sustainable Land Management provides an overview of the latest techniques and Earth observation technologies applied to soil management with a view to improving sustainable land management (SLM). The book details the applications of Earth Observation data for SLM by evaluating their uses in managed and natural environments under different uses and risks (such as natural disasters and climate change). It covers a wide range of soil types and considers increasingly important topics such as soil quality and environmental health, soil organic carbon, and climate change adaptation, among others. This book offers up-to-date applications of Earth Observation technologies and techniques that are ideal for postgraduates, researchers and academics using remote sensing data and geoinformation technologies for soil monitoring.

Machine Learning for the Management of Water Resources and Hydro-Climatological Disasters

  • 1st Edition
  • October 1, 2029
  • Ajin R.S + 4 more
  • English
Machine Learning for the Management of Water Resources and Hydro-Climatological Disasters provides a comprehensive description and application of ML and DL methods in all major aspects of water resources management and hydro-climatological disasters. Sections cover surface water resources management, groundwater resources management, and hydro-climatological disaster management.  Chapters address the major hydro-climatological disasters which pose a threat to communities, include flooding, drought or water scarcity, rainfall induced landslides, snow avalanches, sea level rise and coastal erosion, along with the demarcation of hazard or susceptible zones, inundation zones, assessments of damage, and the management of these disasters. This book enables researchers and students to gain insights on machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) methods and applications. This book should be of great interest to geologists, geomorphologists, hydrologists, geographers, researchers, students as well as disaster management professionals focusing on the management of water resources and hydro-climatological disasters.

Marine Geography

  • 1st Edition
  • August 1, 2029
  • Barbara Bischof
  • English
Marine Geography: Ocean Space and Sense of Place advances the field of marine geography to begin to define it as a unique subdiscipline of geographic thought, and demonstrates how core theory and perspectives must be tweaked to be effective in approaching geographic challenges such as natural resource management, fisheries, coastal development, marine environmental research and exploration, mobilities and legal issues of boundaries and enforcement, and any topics that include human-nature interactions in this space. It provides the geographic theories that must be adjusted and highlights unique spatial characteristics that must be accommodated appropriately to be applied towards issues in marine and coastal systems including boundary-making, dimensions, cultures of science/technologies, access, social constructions, and place vs space. This book lays out ways in which ocean space has been organized by humans and how we have determined boundaries and boundary systems in ocean space.Though Marine Geography: Ocean Space and Sense of Place serves as a reference for a university-level course in marine and coastal geography, it also expands to other disciplines that contain a spatial component including environmental science, maritime industries, political science and international relations, policy professionals, natural resource management, planning/management organizations, and other fields that deal with marine or maritime spaces as an aspect of their focus.

Sediments Close-Up

  • 1st Edition
  • June 23, 2029
  • Jaap J.M. van der Meer + 2 more
  • English
Sediments Close-up: The Micromorphology and Microsedimentology of Non-lithified Sediments presents microsedimentology preparation methods, sampling strategies, interpretation, and quantitative methodology, all of which are broken into distinct sections for each stage of the process. The book forms a thorough reference and practical guide to the field from an editorial team with decades of experience and comprehensively details diagnostic techniques to determine depositional environments. The micromorphology and microsedimentology practices covered have become invaluable tools in the study of sediments and, in particular, microstructures within these sediments.Finally, the book includes detailed case studies to help readers understand and implement the techniques covered. Users will find this to be an in-depth technical reference on microsedimentology for geoscientists, academic supervisors, geoscience conservation officers, geo-engineers, environmental consultants and others in the field of sedimentology.

Impact Cratering Across the Solar System

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 3
  • June 1, 2029
  • Gordon R. Osinski + 1 more
  • English
Impact Cratering Across the Solar System, Volume Three provides an up-to-date, accessible and comprehensive discussions on the impact landforms and processes that shape and drive the evolution of planets, moons and smaller bodies. This book is a necessary resource for sourcing reliable and thorough information on how impact cratering manifests throughout the solar system. The book covers pressing topics, such as how an impact event may be responsible for the major crustal dichotomy on Mars, how impact melting may have created the oldest known rocks on Earth, or how impact craters can be used to date planetary surfaces throughout the Solar System.This new release places a singular emphasis on comparing impact cratering processes on all relevant solar system bodies, with an explicit objective of providing a systems-level understanding of this widespread phenomenon. This book is ideal for students, academics and researchers in the fields of planetary science, geology, and astronomy, as well as those who study planetary impacts such as geophysicists, seismologists and structural geologists.

Engineering Hydrology with Climate Inputs

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2029
  • Rajib Maity + 1 more
  • English
Engineering Hydrology with Climate Inputs examines the impact of climate change on the hydrological cycle and how the methods and analyses of engineering hydrology are affected. After a brief overview of the connections amongst hydrology, meteorology and climatology, the book delves into precipitation, evapotranspiration and initial losses, infiltration and sub-surface soil water content, and watersheds. Also included are examinations of hydrograph analysis, floods, droughts, and groundwater. The text wraps up with hydrologic statistics and frequency analysis as well as hydrologic design. Note that each chapter concludes with exemplary computer codes in Python, R, and MATLAB. This book is a valuable reference for practitioners, researchers, and students who want to ensure that climate change is carefully considered within engineering hydrology efforts.