E-raamat: Global Changes and Natural Disaster Management: Geo-information Technologies

This book is a collection of carefully selected, edited and peer reviewed contributions resulting from the 7th GiT4NDM- 5th EOGC 2015. The book aims to transfer ideas from academicians to professionals, politicians, and decision makers. Thus, the main audience can be found at academic and research institutes, NGOs, etc. The book is designed to advance research and development as well as to encourage innovative applications of Geomatics technologies in global change studies, and to specifically address the international aspects of the coupled social, land and climate systems in global change studies using advanced geospatial tools, spatiotemporal models, and earth observation systems. Readers will benefit from this book because it provides ongoing research and ideas related to earth observations and global change, natural hazards and disaster management studies with respect to geospatial information technology, remote sensing, and global navigation satellite systems.

Part I. Land Use and Land Cover Change  Examining the Effect of Land Use on the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Urban Temperature in an Industrial City: A Landsat Imagery Analysis  The study of Multi-Temporal Analysis of Urban Development and Environmental Changes of the City of Abu Dhabi  CRF-based Simultaneous Segmentation and Classification of High-Resolution Satellite Images  The Dynamic of Dike-Pond System in the Pearl River Delta during 1964-2012  Part II. Agriculture Monitoring  Effects of irrigation and nitrogen on maize growth and yield components A Review of the Effects of Drought on the Grain Yield in the Vays, Mollasani and Salamat Regions of the Khuzestan Province  Part III. Smart City  Communicating Disaster Risk Reduction through Web-map Applications  Mapping sand dune fields in Abu Dhabi Emirate over the period of 1992-2013 using Landsat data Spatio-temporal Analysis and Image Registration for Studying Growth of Transportation Infrastructure in Sharjah Cit

y, UAE  Part IV. Climate Change  Assessment of the potential impacts of sea level rise on the Coastal Plain of Al Batinah, Sultanate of Oman  Part V. Risk Assessment  Detection of Areas Associated with Flash Floods and Erosion Caused by Rainfall Storm Using Topographic Attributes, Hydrologic Indices, and GIS  Collapse assessment of substandard concrete structures for seismic loss estimation of the building inventory in the UAE Slope Stability Risk Management in Open Pit Mines  Part VI. Disaster Management  Status of Spatial Analysis for Urban Emergency Management Experimental Study of the Mechanics of Gypsum Seam Hazard for Abu Dhabi