Global Changes and Natural Disaster Management: Geo-information Technologies

Part I. Land Use and Land Cover Change

1. Examining the Effect of Land Use on the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Urban Temperature in an Industrial City: A Landsat Imagery Analysis
Yusuf A. Aina, Irshad M. Parvez, Abdul-Lateef Balogun

2. The Study of Multi-temporal Analysis of Urban Development and Environmental Changes of the City of Abu Dhabi
H. Hussein, M. Hussein

3. CRF-Based Simultaneous Segmentation and Classification of High-Resolution Satellite Images
Weihong Cui, Guofeng Wang, Chenyi Feng, Yiwei Zheng, Jonathan Li

4. The Dynamic of Dike-Pond System in the Pearl River Delta During 1964–2012
Yuenan Li, Kai Liu, Yang Liu, Yuanhui Zhu

Part II. Agriculture Monitoring

5. Effects of Irrigation and Nitrogen on Maize Growth and Yield Components
Xiukang Wang, Yingying Xing

6. A Review of the Effects of Drought on the Grain Yield in the Vays, Mollasani, and Salamat Regions of the Khuzestan Province
Peyman Molaali, Omosalameh Babaee

Part III. Smart City

7. Communicating Disaster Risk Reduction Through Web-Map Applications
Ali Asgary, Daryoush Kari

8. Mapping Sand Dune Fields in Abu Dhabi Emirate Over the Period of 1992–2013 Using Landsat Data
N. Saleous, S. Issa, R. Saeed

9. Spatiotemporal Analysis and Image Registration for Studying Growth of Transportation Infrastructure in Sharjah City, UAE
Rami Al-Ruzouq, Khaled Hamad, Abdallah Shanableh

Part IV. Climate Change

10. Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Sea Level Rise on the Coastal Plain of Al Batinah, Sultanate of Oman
Salim Mubarak Al Hatrushi

11. Climate Change and Insecurity: An Examination of Gombe State’s Predicament in the Northeastern Nigeria
U. A. Abubakar, A. Ahmed

12. Climate Change and Forced Migration from Ngala and Kala-Balge LGAs, N.E. Borno State, Nigeria
Adam M. Abbas

Part V. Risk Assessment

13. Detection of Areas Associated with Flash Floods and Erosion Caused by Rainfall Storm Using Topographic Attributes, Hydrologic Indices, and GIS
A. Bannari, A. Ghadeer, A. El-Battay, N. A. Hameed, M. Rouai

14. Collapse Assessment of Substandard Concrete Structures for Seismic Loss Estimation of the Building Inventory in the UAE
Aman Mwafy, Bashir Almurad

Part VI. Disaster Management

15. Status of Spatial Analysis for Urban Emergency Management
Rifaat Abdalla

16. Experimental Study of the Mechanics of Gypsum Seam Hazard for Abu Dhabi
M. Opolot, W. Li, R. L. Sousa, A. L. Costa

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Natural Hazards, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Geophysics/Geodesy, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences