Monitoring and Modeling of Global Changes: A Geomatics Perspective

This book includes fifteen chapters and has sought to present state-of-the-art technologies in global environmental issues. Together the content of this book and associated materials will increase the insight of readers in remote sensing, GIS and geomatics technologies to explore the challenges and future direction of a particular application for environmental studies. This book will motivate the undergraduate, graduate students and researchers to understand the environmental issues and how to save the Earth with informed solutions.§§Global Change studies are increasingly considered a vital source of information to understand the Earth Environment, especially in the framework of human-induced, climate change and land use transformation. Satellite Earth Observing systems and geomatics technologies provide a unique tool to monitor and model the changes, respectively. While the range of applications and innovative techniques are always increasing; this book provides a summary of key study cases where satellite data offers critical information to understand the usefulness of the geomatics technologies and global environmental issues. Geomatics technologies provide powerful tools to model and analyze the effects of those global environmental changes towards minimizing their adverse impacts.§