List of abbreviationsList of ContributorsList of EditorsForeword [to come]Preface [to come]Section I GeneralChapter 1 Introduction to Natural Resource Monitoring Using Remote Sensing TechnologyPrem Chandra PANDEY and Laxmi Kant SHARMAChapter 2 Spectroradiometry: Types, Data Collection, and ProcessingManish Kumar PANDEY, Ayushi GUPTA, Prachi SINGH, Prem Chandra PANDEY, Prashant K SRIVASTAVAChapter 3 Geometric-optical modeling of Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function for trees and forest standsNour El Islam BACHARI, Salim LAMINE & Khaled MEHARRARSection II Vegetation Resource Monitoring (Forest and Agriculture)Chapter 4 Mapping Stand Age of Indonesian Rubber Plantation using Fully Polarimetric L-Band Synthetic Aperture RadarBambang H. TRISASONGKOChapter 5 Responses of Multi-Frequency Remote Sensing to Forest BiomassSuman SINHA, A. SANTRA, L.K. SHARMA, A.K. DAS, C. JEGANATHAN, Shiv MOHAN, S.S. MITRA, M.S. NATHAWATChapter 6 Crop water Requirements Analysis Using Geoinformatics Techniques in the Water Scarce Semi-Arid WatershedIbrahim-Bathis. K, SA AHMED, Nischitha.V and M.A Mohammed-ASLAMChapter 7 Biophysical Characterization and Monitoring Large-Scale Water and Vegetation Anomalies by Remote Sensing in the Agricultural Growing Areas of the Brazilian Semiarid RegionAntônio Heriberto de Castro TEIXEIRA; Janice Freitas LEIVAS; Edson Patto PACHECO; Edlene Aparecida Monteiro GARÇON & Celina Maki TAKEMURAChapter 8 SMOS L4 Downscaled Soil Moisture Product Evaluation over a 2 year- period in a Mediterranean SettingPatrick N. L. LAMPTEY, George P. PETROPOULOS, Prashant K. SRIVASTAVAChapter 9 Estimating Urban Population Density Using Remotely Sensed Imagery ProductsDimitris TRIANTAKONSTANTIS, Demetris STATHAKIS and Zoi PAPADOPOULOUChapter 10 Impact of Land Cover Change on Surface RunoffApoorv SOOD, S.K.GHOSH, Priyadarshi UPADHYAYChapter 11 Delineation of Ground Water Potential Zone and Site Suitability of Rainwater Harvesting Structures using Remote Sensing and In-situ Geophysical MeasurementsPrachi SINGH, Akash ANAND, Prashant K. SRIVASTAVA, Arjun SINGH and Prem Chandra PANDEYChapter 12 Structural control on the landscape Evolution of Son Alluvial Fan System in Ganga foreland basinManish PANDEY, Yogesh RAY, Aman ARORA, UK SHUKLA, Shyam RANJANChapter 13 Managing the Blue Carbon Ecosystem: A Remote Sensing and GIS ApproachesParul MAURYA, Anup Kumar DAS, Rina KUMARIChapter 14 Appraising the Changing Climate and Extent of Snow in the Kashmir Himalaya using MODIS dataSeema RANIChapter 15 Knowledge-based mapping of debris-covered glaciers in the Greater Himalayan RangeSwagata GHOSH and RAAJ RAMSANKARANChapter 16 Seawater Intrusion and Salinity Mapping in coastal Aquifers: A Geospatial approachTANUSHREE, Rina KUMARIChapter 17 Wetland Inundated Area Modelling and Monitoring using Supervised and machine learning classifiersSwapan TALUKDAR, Sakshi MANKOTIA, Md SHAMIMUZZAMAN, SHAHFAHAD, Susanta MAHATOChapter 18 A Focus on Reagrregation of Playa Wetlandscapes in the Face of Global Ecological DisconnectivityLaxmikant SHARMA, Rajashree NAIK and Prem Chandra PANDEYChapter 19 Flood Damage Assessment in a Part of the Ganga-Brahmaputra Plain Region, IndiaRajesh KUMARChapter 20 Texture Based Riverine Feature Extraction and Flood Mapping Using Satellite ImagesKULDEEP, P K GARG and R D GARGChapter 21 Numerical Simulation and Comparison of Tsunami Inundation for Different Satellite Derived Datasets for the Gujarat Coast of IndiaShafique MATIN & PRAVEEN S SChapter 22 Future aspects and potential of the remote sensing technology to meet the natural resource needsLaxmi Kant SHARMA, Rajit GUPTA, and Prem Chandra PANDEY
Dr Prem C. Pandey is Assistant Professor in the Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, UP, India.Dr Laxmi K. Sharma is Associate Professor, at the Department of Environmental Science, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India.