Handbook on Advances in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems - Paradigms and Applications in Forest Landscape Modeling

This book presents the latest advances in remote-sensing and geographic information systems and applications. It is divided into four parts, focusing on Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and Optical Measurements of Forests; Individual Tree Modelling; Landscape Scene Modelling; and Forest Eco-system Modelling.
Given the scope of its coverage, the book offers a valuable resource for students, researchers, practitioners, and educators interested in remote sensing and geographic information systems and applications.

List of contents

Innovations in Remote Sensing of Forests.- Overview of LiDAR Technologies and Equipment for Land Cover Scanning.- Software Tools for Terrain and Forest Modelling.- Data Fusion for Evaluation of Woodland Parameters.- Tree Modelling in Virtual Reality Environment.- Realistic Tree Modelling.-  Digital Modelling of Terrain Surface.- Texturing of Landscape Scenes.- Large Scene Rendering.- Scene Rendering under Meteorological Impacts.- Lighting and Shadows Rendering in Natural Scenes.- Modelling of Forest Ecosystems.

Summary

This book presents the latest advances in remote-sensing and geographic information systems and applications. It is divided into four parts, focusing on Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and Optical Measurements of Forests; Individual Tree Modelling; Landscape Scene Modelling; and Forest Eco-system Modelling.
Given the scope of its coverage, the book offers a valuable resource for students, researchers, practitioners, and educators interested in remote sensing and geographic information systems and applications.

Product details

• Authors: Igor Mikhailovich Danilin, Margarita Favorskaya, Margarita N Favorskaya, Margarita N. Favorskaya, Lakhmi C Jain, Lakhmi C. Jain, Evgeny Mikhailovich Medvedev
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9783319523064
• ISBN: 978-3-31-952306-4
• No. of pages: 415
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 25 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 760 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 415 p. 109 illus.
• Series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library; Intelligent Systems Reference Library
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Elektronik, B, Geographische Informationssysteme (GIS) und Fernerkundung, Artificial Intelligence, engineering, Digitale Signalverarbeitung (DSP), Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Signal Processing, Geographical information systems & remote sensing, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Geographical Information System, Geographical information systems, Computational Intelligence, Speech processing systems, Digital and Analog Signal Processing, Imaging systems & technology, Image processing