Geospatial Technologies in Land Resources Mapping, Monitoring and Management [Hardcover]

This book offers an overview of geospatial technologies in land resources mapping, monitoring and management. It consists of four main sections: geospatial technologies  - principles and applications; geospatial technologies in land resources mapping; geospatial technologies in land resources monitoring; and geospatial technologies in land resources management. Each part is divided into detailed chapters that include illustrations and tables. The authors, from leading institutes, such as the ICAR-NBSS&LUP, IIT-B, NRSC, ICRISAT, share their experiences and offer case studies to provide advanced insights into the field. It is a valuable resource for the scientific and the teaching community, extension scientists at research institutes and agricultural universities/colleges as well as those involved in planning and managing land resources for sustainable agriculture and livelihood security.

 

Part I: Geospatial Technologies - Principles and Applications.-  Chapter 1. Principles and applications of geospatial technologies (G.P. Obi Reddy).- Chapter 2. Advances in multi-sensor satellite data processing and applications ( Nirmal Kumar).- Chapter 3. High resolution remote sensing data characteristics and applications (M.S.S. Nagaraju).- Chapter 4. Advances in digital image processing for resources mapping (G.P. Obi Reddy).- Chapter 5. Principles of Geographical Information and Communication Technologies (J. Adinarayana).- Chapter 6. Principles of geostatistics in spatial data analysis and mapping (Nirmal Kumar).- Part II: Geospatial Technologies in Land Resources Mapping.- Chapter 7. Land resource inventory and mapping- issues and challenges (S.K. Singh).- Chapter 8. Remote sensing and GIS for development of baseline database (S. l£P