Geographic Information Science for Land Resource Management is a comprehensive book focusing on managing land resources using innovative techniques of spatial information sciences and satellite remote sensing.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Climate Change in South Asia: Impact, Adaptation and the Role of GI Science
• 2 Sustainable Land Resource Management Approach and Technological Interventions – Role of GI Science
• 3 GI Science for Assessing the Urban Growth and Sustainability in Agra City, India
• 4 The Use of GI Science in Detecting Anthropogenic Interaction in Protected Areas: A Case of the Takamanda National Park, South West Region, Cameroon
• 5 Urban Heat Island Effect Concept and Its Assessment Using Satellite-Based Remote Sensing Data
• 6 Remote Sensing for Snowpack Monitoring and Its Implications
• 7 Spectral Ratioing: A Computational Model for Quick Information Retrieval of Earth's Surface Dynamics
• 8 Delineation of Surface Water in Mining Dominated Region of Angul District of Odisha State, India Using Sentinel-2A Satellite Data
• 9 Mapping Seasonal Variability and Spatio-Temporal Trends of Water Quality Parameters in Wular Lake (Kashmir Valley)
• 10 Water Quality Zoning Using GIS & Remote Sensing: A Case Study of Tehsil Matta District Swat Pakistan
• 11 Assessing the Impacts of Global Sea Level Rise (SLR) on the Mangrove Forests of Indian Sundarbans Using Geospatial Technology
• 12 Sustainable Water Resource Management Using Watershed Morphometry–A Case Study of Giri River Catchment, Himachal Pradesh, India
• 13 Improving the Procedure for River Flow Measurement and Mapping: Case Study River Plitvica, Croatia
• 14 Spatiotemporal Analysis of Forest Degradation in South Chotanagpur Division of India
• 15 Forest Fire Risk Assessment Using GIS Science – A Case Study of South India
• 16 GI Science for Land Use Suitability Analysis in the Himalayas – A Case Study of Himachal Pradesh, India
• 17 Using Remote Sensing Data and Geospatial Techniques for Watershed Delineation and Morphometric Analysis of Beas Upper Catchment, India
• 18 Sub-Watershed Prioritization for Soil and Water Conservation – A Case Study of Lower Wardha River, Maharashtra, India, Using GI Science
• 19 Understanding Hydrologic Response Using Basin Morphometry in Pohru Watershed, NW Himalaya
• 20 Sintacs Method for Assessment of Groundwater Vulnerability: A Case of Ahmedabad, India
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