Geospatial Techniques for Managing Environmental Resources

1. Environmental Informatics: Advancing Data Intensive Sciences to Solve Environmental Problems
Chaowei Yang, Yan Xu, Daniel Fay

2. Hierarchical Geospatial Computing Environment for Data-intensive Geographic Process Simulation
Mingyuan Hu, Hui Lin, Bingli Xu, Ya Hu, Sammy Tang, Weitao Che

3. Integration of Geographic Information Systems for Monitoring and Dissemination of Marine Environment Data
Marcin Kulawiak, Marek Moszynski

4. Estimation of Evapotranspiration from Wetlands Using Geospatial and Hydrometeorological Data
Jay Krishna Thakur, P. K. Srivastava, Arun Kumar Pratihast, Sudhir Kumar Singh

5. Climbing the Water Ladder – The New GIS Approach
Amos Kabo-bah, Kamila Lis

6. Supraglacial Lake Classification in the Everest Region of Nepal Himalaya
Prajjwal K. Panday, Henry Bulley, Umesh Haritashya, Bardan Ghimire

7. Towards the Improvement of Water Resource Management by Combining Technologies for Spatial Data Collection, Storage, Analysis and Dissemination
Nafaâ Jabeur, James D. McCarthy

8. Geomorphologic Risk Modelling of the Sibiu Depression Using Geospatial Surface Analyses
Marioara Costea, Roxana Giusca, Rodica Ciobanu

9. Geospatial Technique to Study Forest Cover Using ALOS/PALSAR Data
Ram Avtar, Jay Krishna Thakur, Amit Kumar Mishra, Pankaj Kumar

10. Assessment of Land Use/Land Cover Using Geospatial Techniques in a Semi-arid Region of Madhya Pradesh, India
Prafull Singh, Jay Krishna Thakur, Suyash Kumar, U. C. Singh

11. The Environmental Calculator: A Tool for the Efficient Assessment of Environmental Services Loss due to Deforestation
Miguel Martínez Tapia, Xanat Antonio Némiga, José Isabel Juan Pérez

12. Urban Tree Detection Using Mobile Laser Scanning Data
Arun Kumar Pratihast, Jay Krishna Thakur

13. Multisensor Fusion of Remote Sensing Data for Crop Disease Detection
Dimitrios Moshou, Ioannis Gravalos, Dimitrios Kateris Cedric Bravo, Roberto Oberti, Jon S. West, Herman Ramon

14. Geospatial Analysis of Cancer Cases in the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey
Ebru H. Colak, Tahsin Yomralioglu

15. GIS for the Determination of Bioenergy Potential in the Centre Region of Portugal
Tanya C. J. Esteves, Pedro Cabral, José Carlos Teixeira, António J. D. Ferreira

16. Use of Geospatial Data in Planning for Offshore Wind Development
John Madsen, Alison Bates, John Callahan, Jeremy Firestone

17. Social Vulnerability Assessment through GIS Techniques: A Case Study of Flood Risk Mapping in Mexico
P. Krishna Krishnamurthy, L. Krishnamurthy

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Physical Geography, Environmental Management