GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques in Land- and Water-management

Managing land and water is a complex affair. Decisions must be made constantly to allocate and use natural resources. Decision and action in any use of resources often have strong interactions and side-effects on others, therefore it is extremely important to monitor and forecast the impacts of the decisions very carefully. Reliable information and clear data manipulation procedures are compulsory for monitoring and forecasting.
Remote Sensing has considerable potential to provide reliable information. A Geographic Information System is an easy tool for manipulating and analysing the data in a clear and fast way. This book describes in seven practical examples how GIS and Remote Sensing techniques are successfully applied in land and water management.

List of contents

1. Why would we use a GIS DataBase and Remote Sensing in Irrigation Management?.- 2. Can WARMAP save the Aral Sea?.- 3. Remote sensing for Inland Water Quality Detection and Monitoring: State-of-the-art application in Friesland waters.- 4. Use of remotely sensed Images by SPOT in Hydrologic Modelling.- 5. Measuring and analysing of flood waves in Rhine river; an application of laser altimetry.- 6. Soil moisture conditions in The Netherlands during the summer of 1995 interpreted from satellite measurements.- 7. GIS and watermanagement: Where are we heading to?.

Summary

Managing land and water is a complex affair. Decisions must be made constantly to allocate and use natural resources. Decision and action in any use of resources often have strong interactions and side-effects on others, therefore it is extremely important to monitor and forecast the impacts of the decisions very carefully. Reliable information and clear data manipulation procedures are compulsory for monitoring and forecasting.
Remote Sensing has considerable potential to provide reliable information. A Geographic Information System is an easy tool for manipulating and analysing the data in a clear and fast way. This book describes in seven practical examples how GIS and Remote Sensing techniques are successfully applied in land and water management.

Product details

• Assisted by: M. G. Bos (Editor), M.G. Bos (Editor), Marinus G. Bos (Editor), A. van Dijk (Editor), G Bos (Editor), G Bos (Editor), van Dijk (Editor), A van Dijk (Editor), A. van Dijk (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.2012
• EAN: 9789401064927
• ISBN: 978-94-0-106492-7
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 244 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 204 g
• Illustrations: 104 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; B, Agriculture, Earth and Environmental Science, Data Structures and Information Theory, Geographical information systems & remote sensing, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Geographical Information System, Geographical information systems, Agricultural science, Algorithms & data structures, Information theory, Remote sensing, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Data structures (Computer science), GIS;Geoinformationssysteme;database;remote sensing;satellite