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Acknowledgement |
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1 The Impact of Rapid Urbanization on Vegetation Cover and Land Surface Temperature in Barasat Municipal Area |
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1.3 Datasets and Methodology |
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1.4 Results and Discussion |
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1.4.1 Pattern of LULC in Barasat |
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1.4.3 Impact of Urban Sprawl on Vegetation Cover |
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1.4.4 Impact of Urban Sprawl on LST |
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1.4.5 Relationship Between NDVI and LST |
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2 Geo-Environmental Hazard Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Over South Karanpura Coalfield Region of India |
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2.3 Methodology and Data Used |
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2.4 Result and Discussion |
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2.4.1 Thematic Layers of GHI |
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2.4.1.1 AOT, PWV, and Temperature |
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2.4.1.2 Land Use/Land Cover |
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2.4.2 Thematic Layers of SVI |
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2.4.2.1 Population Density |
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2.4.2.3 Children Age Group (0-6 years) (CAG) |
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2.4.3 Geo-Environmental Hazard and Socio-Economic Vulnerability Assessment |
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2.4.3.1 Geo-Environmental Hazard Index |
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2.4.3.2 Socio-Economic Vulnerability Index |
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Appendix: List of Abbreviations |
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3 Bistatic Scatterometer Measurements for Soil Moisture Estimation Using Grid Partition-Based Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System at L-Band |
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3.2 Methods and Materials |
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3.2.1 Bistatic Scatterometer System |
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3.2.2 Measurement of Soil Moisture Content |
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3.3 Result and Discussions |
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4 Morphometric Analysis of Tapi Drainage Basin Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques |
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4.4 Results and Discussion |
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4.4.1 Morphometric Analysis of Basin |
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5 Efficacy of GOSAT Data for Global Distribution of CO2 Emission |
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5.2 Monitoring of Greenhouse Gases From Space |
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5.3.1 Sensors Description of GOSAT |
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5.5 Results and Discussion |
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6 Development of a Smart Village Through Micro-Level Planning Using Geospatial Techniques-A Case Study of Jangal Aurahi Village of Gorakhpur District |
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6.3 Data Used and Methodology |
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6.3.4 Survey of India Toposheet |
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6.4 Result and Discussion |
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6.4.1.1 Soil Resources Action Plan |
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6.4.1.2 Water Resources Action Plan |
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6.4.1.3 Action Plan for Waste Water Management |
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6.4.1.4 Action Plan Solid Waste Management |
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6.4.1.5 Action Plan for Land Use Management |
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7 Land Appraisal for the Growth of Potato Cultivation: A Study of Sagar Island, India |
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7.3.2 Generation of Different Thematic Layers for Land Suitability Evaluation of Potato Cultivation |
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7.3.3 Assigning Weight of Parameters and MCE |
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7.3.4 Generation of Land Suitability Map (LSM) and Overlaid With LULC Map |
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7.4 Results and Discussion |
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7.4.1 Determination of Suitable Zones for Potato Cultivation at Different Land Suitability Parameters |
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8 Landslide Vulnerability Mapping Using Geospatial Technology |
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8.3 Materials and Methods |
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9 Assessment of Impacts of Coal Mining-Induced Subsidence on Native Flora and Native Forest Land: A Brief Review |
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9.2.1 Impacts of Subsidence on Forest Lands |
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9.2.2 Impacts on the Health of Native Floras |
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9.2.3 Impacts on Soil Functions |
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147 | (2) |
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10 Application of GI Science in Morphometric Analysis: A Case Study of the Gomati River Watershed in District Bageshwar, Uttarakhand |
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10.3 Materials and Methodology |
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10.3.1 Extraction of the Gomati River Basin |
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10.4 Results and Discussion |
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10.4.3.1 Stream Order (Sµ) |
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10.4.3.4 Mean Stream Length |
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10.4.3.5 Stream Length Ratio |
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10.4.3.6 Bifurcation Ratio |
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10.4.4.2 Drainage Density |
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10.4.4.3 Drainage Frequency |
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10.4.4.4 Drainage Texture |
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10.4.4.5 Form Factor Ratio |
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10.4.4.6 Elongation Ratio |
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10.4.4.7 Circulatory Ratio |
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11 Water Audit: Sustainable Strategy for Water Resource Assessment and Gap Analysis |
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11.2 Material and Methodology |
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11.2.2.1 Population Estimation of BIT Campus |
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11.2.2.2 Water Source Identification |
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11.2.2.3 Water Demand Assessment |
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11.3.1 Water Demand Assessment |
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11.3.2 Water Audit Report and Analysis |
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11.3.2.1 Water Audit of Hostel No. 9 |
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11.3.2.2 Water Audit for Hostel 8 |
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12 Multi-Temporal Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) Change Analysis Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques of Durg Block, Durg District, Chhattisgarh, India |
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12.3 Materials and Methods |
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12.4 Result and Discussion |
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12.4.1 LULC Statistics of October 2005 (Post-Monsoon) |
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12.4.2 LULC Statistics of October 2016 (Post-Monsoon) |
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12.4.3 LULC Changes Between October 2005 and October 2016 (Post-Monsoon) |
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12.4.4 LULC Statistics of February 2006 (Pre-Monsoon) |
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12.4.5 LULC Statistics of February 2017 (Pre-Monsoon) |
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12.4.6 LULC Changes Between February 2006 and February 2017 (Pre-Monsoon) |
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13 Climate Vulnerability and Adaption Assessment in Bundelkhand Region, India |
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13.1.1 Climate Change and Vulnerability Assessment |
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13.1.2 LVI for Bundelkhand Region |
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14 Suitable Zone for Sustainable Ground Water Assessment in Dhanbad Block, Jharkhand, India |
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14.2.2 Ground Water Label |
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14.3.1 Overlay Analysis to Find Groundwater Potential Zone |
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15 Detecting Land Use/Land Cover Change of East and West Kamrup Division of Assam Using Geospatial Techniques |
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15.3 Materials and Methodology |
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15.4 Results and Discussion |
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15.4.1 Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics and Change Analysis |
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15.4.2 The Change Matrix Cross Tabulation |
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15.4.3 Classification Accuracy Assessment |
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16 Climate Resilient Housing-An Alternate Option to Cope with Natural Disasters: A Study in Fani Cyclonic Storm Affected Areas of Odisha |
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16.2 Study Area and Methodology |
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16.3.1 Climate Resilient Housing in the Fani Affected Districts |
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16.4 Policy Recommendation |
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17 Role of Geo-Informatics in Natural Resource Management During Disasters: A Case Study of Gujarat Floods, 2017 |
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17.1.1 Understanding Disasters: Natural and Anthropogenic |
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17.1.2 Disaster-Risk Reduction |
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17.1.3 Disaster Preparedness |
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17.1.4 Disaster Management |
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257 | (1) |
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17.1.5 Role of Geo-Informatics in Disaster Management |
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258 | (1) |
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17.1.6 Structural Measures of Flood Risk Management |
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17.1.6.2 Levee and Levee Overtopping |
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17.1.6.4 Transverse Dikes |
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17.1.6.6 Watershed and Afforestation |
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17.1.7 Non-Structural Measures of Flood Risk Management |
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17.1.7.1 Non-Structural Measures |
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17.1.7.2 Flood Plain Zoning |
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17.1.7.3 Flood Forecasting |
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17.1.7.4 Flood Plain Development |
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17.1.7.7 Catchment Management |
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17.2 Flood Preparedness Measures |
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17.3 Flood Response Measures |
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17.3.1 Components of Flood Response |
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17.3.1.1 Estimation of Severity of Flood |
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17.3.1.2 Emergency Search and Rescue |
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17.3.1.3 Emergency Relief |
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17.3.1.4 Incident Response System |
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17.3.1.5 Control Room Set-Up |
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17.3.1.6 Model Action Plan |
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17.3.1.7 Community-Based Disaster Preparedness and Response |
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17.3.1.8 Emergency Logistics and Equipment |
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17.3.1.9 Emergency Medical Response |
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17.3.1.10 State Disaster Response Force |
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17.4 Gujarat Flood Case Study 2017 |
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17.5 Preparedness Measures by State Government |
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17.9 Speedy Restoration of Essential Services |
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17.10 Use of Drones-New Initiative Adopted |
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18 Environmental Impacts by the Clustering of Rice Mills, Ernakulam District, Kerala State |
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18.2 Environmental Pollution and Rice Processing Industries |
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18.4 Methodology and Review of Literature |
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18.5 Spatial Distribution of Rice Mill Clustering |
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18.6 Parboiling Process and Characteristics of Rice Mill Effluents |
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18.7 Description of Rice Mills Taken for Assessing the Impact on Environment |
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18.9 Overutilization of Groundwater Resources |
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18.10 Physio-Chemical Analysis of Rice Mill Effluent From Second Model Cluster |
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18.10.3 Total Dissolved Solids/TSSs |
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18.10.4 Chloride and Sulphate |
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18.10.6 Bio-Chemical Oxygen Demand |
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18.10.7 Chemical Oxygen Demand |
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19 GIS-Based Investigation of Topography, Watershed, and Hydrological Parameters of Wainganga River Basin, Central India |
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19.4 Results and Discussions |
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19.4.1 Physiographical Regions Area |
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19.4.3 Digital Elevation Model |
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19.4.4 The WRB Catchment Area |
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19.4.6.2 Rainfall-Runoff Modeling |
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