LEADER 04992nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910437939903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a3-642-34085-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-642-34085-7 035 $a(CKB)2560000000104740 035 $a(EBL)1317421 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000935315 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11522501 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000935315 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10953266 035 $a(PQKB)10123135 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-642-34085-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1317421 035 $a(PPN)170490440 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000104740 100 $a20130704d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEnvironmental geoinformatics $emonitoring and management /$fJoseph L. Awange, John B. Kyalo Kiema 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 $aHeidelberg, Germany $cSpringer$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (541 p.) 225 1 $aEnvironmental Science and Engineering, Environmental Science 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-642-34084-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aEnvironmental Monitoring and Management -- Geodata and Geoinformatics -- Fundamentals of surveying and geodesy -- Modernization of GNSS -- The Global Positioning System -- Environmental Surveying and Surveillance -- Fundamentals of Remote Sensing -- Optical Remote Sensing -- Microwave Remote Sensing -- Image Interpretation and Analysis -- Fundamentals of Photogrammetry -- Digital Photogrammetry. 330 $aThere is no doubt that today, perhaps more than ever before, humanity faces a myriad of complex and demanding challenges. These include natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, food and water insecurity, energy shortages, diminishing biodiversity, increasing losses from natural disasters, and climate change with its associated potentially devastating consequences, such as rising sea levels. These human-induced and natural impacts on the environment need to be well understood in order to develop informed policies, decisions, and remedial measures to mitigate current and future negative impacts. To achieve this, continuous monitoring and management of the environment to acquire data that can be soundly and rigorously analyzed to provide information about its current state and changing patterns, and thereby allow predictions of possible future impacts, are essential. Developing pragmatic and sustainable solutions to address these and many other similar challenges requires the use of geodata and the application of geoinformatics. This book presents the concepts and applications of geoinformatics, a multidisciplinary field that has at its core different technologies that support the acquisition, analysis and visualization of geodata for environmental monitoring and management. We depart from the 4D to the 5D data paradigm, which defines geodata accurately, consistently, rapidly and completely, in order to be useful without any restrictions in space, time or scale to represent a truly global dimension of the digital Earth. The book also features the state-of-the-art discussion of Web-GIS. The concepts and applications of geoinformatics presented in this book will be of benefit to decision-makers across a wide range of fields, including those at environmental agencies, in the emergency services, public health and epidemiology, crime mapping, environmental management agencies, tourist industry, market analysis and e-commerce, or mineral exploration, among many others. The title and subtitle of this textbook convey a distinct message. Monitoring -the passive part in the subtitle - refers to observation and data acquisition, whereas management - the active component - stands for operation and performance. The topic is our environment, which is intimately related to geoinformatics. The overall message is: all the mentioned elements do interact and must not be separated.  Hans-Peter B ahr, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c., Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. 410 0$aEnvironmental science and engineering (Springer (Firm)).$pEnvironmental science. 606 $aGeographic information systems 606 $aEnvironmental geology 606 $aGeodesy 606 $aGeography 606 $aRemote sensing 606 $aEarth sciences 615 0$aGeographic information systems. 615 0$aEnvironmental geology. 615 0$aGeodesy. 615 0$aGeography. 615 0$aRemote sensing. 615 0$aEarth sciences. 676 $a363.700285 700 $aAwange$b Joseph L.$f1969-$01229364 701 $aKyalo Kiema$b John B$01758012 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910437939903321 996 $aEnvironmental geoinformatics$94196047 997 $aUNINA