This book discusses advances in remote sensing pertaining to urbanization, disasters, and planning, through available geospatial data supported by various case studies. It covers urbanization and its impact, geospatial technology for disasters and urban management, and natural disasters, models, and planning applications including GPS devices.
Re-envisioning Advances in Remote Sensing: Urbanization, Disasters and Planning aims at portraying varied advancements in remote sensing applications, particularly in the fields of urbanization, disaster management and regional planning perspectives. The book is organized into three sections of overlapping areas of research covering chief remote sensing applications. Apart from introducing the advances in remote sensing through Indian remote sensing developments, it depicts the broader themes of: urbanization and its impacts; geospatial technology for disaster management; and, remote sensing applications in models and planning. It also provides outlook to future research agenda for remote sensing.
Features:
• Depicts advances in remote sensing in major fields through applications of geospatial technologies.
• Covers remote sensing applications in varied aspects of urbanization, urban problems and disasters.
• Includes advancements in remote sensing in model building and planning perspectives.
• Analyses the usage of smartphones and other digital devices in mapping urban problems and monitoring disaster risks.
• Explores future agenda for remote sensing advances and its ever-widening horizon.
This book would be of interest to all the researchers and graduate students pursuing studies in the fields of remote sensing, GIS, geospatial technologies, urbanizations, disaster management, regional planning, environmental sciences, natural resource management and related fields.
Introduction: Re-envisioning Advances in Remote Sensing. Section I.
Urbanization and its Impact.
1. Remote Sensing Applications in Urbanization
and its impact on Environment: A Case Study of Noida City.
2. Dynamics of
Urban Land Use and its Impact on Land Surface Temperature (LST) in Aligarh
City, Uttar Pradesh.
3. Use of a Smartphone to Map Noise Pollution: A Case
Study of Ludhiana City.
4. An Assessment of Urban Green Spaces under the
Smart Cities Mission: The Case of Qaiserbagh ABD Area of Lucknow City.
5.
Impact on Land Surface Temperature and Urban Heat Island Due to Land Use Land
Cover Change in Dhaka Metropolitan Area Using Remote Sensing and GIS
Techniques. Section II. Geospatial Technology for Disaster Management.
6.
Spatio-Environmental Distribution of Drought Disaster Events: A Space-Based
Approach using Terra-MODIS Vegetation Index.
7. Sustainable Management of
Waterlogged and Salt Affected Areas through Geo-Spatial Technology A Case
Study of Central Haryana.
8. Flood Risk Assessment and Analysis of Kashmir
Valley Floor through Remote Sensing.
9. Remote Sensing Applications in
Landslide Susceptibility Index Mapping of Rangamati District, Bangladesh.
10.
Remote Sensing Applications in Landslide Assessments: Case of Kotropi in
Himachal Himalayas.
11. Geospatial techniques to quantify urban change: A
case of Harare, Zimbabwe. Section III. Remote Sensing Applications in Models
and Planning.
12. Remote Sensing & GIS based Site Identification for Solid
Waste Management for Urban Planning of Amritsar Municipal Corporation,
Punjab, India.
13. Use of Remote Sensing Techniques in Land Degradation
Mapping.
14. Feasibility Analysis of a Railway Route using Remote
Sensing/Geoinformatics and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Techniques.
15.
Comparing Performance of Inverse Distance Weighting and Modified Shepard
Interpolation Models with Different Sampling Arrangements: A Case Study.
16.
Application of Remote Sensing in the Groundwater Potential Analysis of
Developing Countries.
17. Village Identification on the basis of Intensity of
Problems in Physical Resources in the Kandi Region of Punjab for Micro Level
Planning. Conclusion: Outlook to Future Research Agenda.
Ripudaman Singh, presently teaching as Professor of Geography at Amity University, Noida (Since September 2021). After completing his doctoral research from Panjab University, Chandigarh through UGC-JRF/SRF fellowships, he has been faculty to various institutions including Post Graduate Government College, Sector-11, Chandigarh (2005-2010); Central University of Punjab, Bathinda (2010-2011); and Lyallpur Khalsa College, Jalandhar (2011-2012), and Lovely Professional University, Phagwara (2012 to 2021). He has also served Government College, Hoshiarpur (2004) on honorary basis and Panjab University, Chandigarh as Guest Faculty (2005-2006). He has been a recipient of Young Geographers Award from National Association of Geographers, India (NAGI) in 2005. He has special interest in Development Geography, Remote Sensing & GIS, Geography of India, Political Geography, Regional Development & Planning and Disaster Management. He has published more than sixty research papers in reputed international and national journals and four books to his credit. His other two books are under publication.