ISBN-13: 9783030030162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 635 str.
ISBN-13: 9783030030162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 635 str.
Assembling a wealth of multi-disciplinary techniques for addressing environmental problems such as pollution and climate change, this volume features simplified presentation aimed at non-experts, demonstrating geoinformatics potency as a research toolkit.
Environmental Monitoring and Management.- Geodata and Geoinformatics.- Fundamentals of Surveying and Geodesy.- Modernization of GNSS.- The Global Positioning System.- Environmental Surveying and Surveillance.- Fundamentals of Remote Sensing.- Optical Remote Sensing.- Microwave Remote Sensing.- Image Interpretation and Analysis.- Fundamentals of Photogrammetry.- Digital Photogrammetry.- CORONA Historical De-classified Products.- Fundamentals of GIS.- Data Models and Structure.- Input of GIS Data.- GIS Database.- Spatial Analysis.- Web GIS and Mapping.- Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles.- Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR).- Maps in Environmental Monitoring.- Satellite Environmental Sensing.- GNSS Reflectometry and Applications.- Weather, Climate and Global Warming.- GNSS Sensing of Climate Variability.- Water Resources.- Land Management.- Marine and Coastal Resources.- Protection and Conservation of Animals and Vegetation.- Disaster Monitoring and Management.- Environmental Pollution.- Environmental Impact Assessment.
Professor Joseph Awange joined Spatial Sciences (School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Australia) in 2006 under a Curtin Research Fellowship and concurrently undertook the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship at the Geodetic Institute (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) having been awarded the Australian 2008–2011 Ludwig Leichhardt Memorial Fellowship for experienced researchers. In 2015, he won all the three major Fellowship Awards: Alexander von Humboldt (Germany), Japan Society of Promotion of Science (Japan) and Brazil Frontier of Science (Brazil) to carry out research in those countries. At Curtin University, he is currently a Professor of Environmental Geoinformatics engaged in teaching and research having attracted more than $2.5M worth of research grants. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Surveying from the University of Nairobi (Kenya), and was also awarded a merit scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD), which facilitated his obtaining a second MSc degree and PhD in Geodesy at Stuttgart University (Germany). In 2002–2004, he was awarded the prestigious Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship to pursue postdoctoral research at Kyoto University (Japan). Prof Awange attained International Editorial role in Springer Earth Science Books and has authored 15 scholarly books with the prestigious Springer International publishers and more than 160 peer-reviewed high impact journal publications (in e.g., Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Climate, Climatic Change, Advances in Water Resources, International Journal of Climatology, and Journal of Hydrology among others). His main research areas that have attracted media coverage (e.g., Environmental Monitor) are in the fields of (i) Environmental Geoinformatics: Satellite Environmental Sensing (e.g., changes in global and regional stored water (surface, underground, ice, and soil moisture) using GRACE and TRMM satellites; Climate Change using GNSS and altimetry satellites), which is employed to face the emerging challenges of the 21st century posed by increased extreme hydroclimatic conditions, e.g., severity and frequency of droughts in Australia and Greater Horn of Africa (GHA), and the changing monsoon characteristics in Asia and Africa leading to floods, and (ii) Mathematical Geosciences: Hybrid-symbolic solutions that delivers hybrid symbolic-numeric computations (HSNC), which is a large and growing area at the boundary of mathematics and computer science and currently an active area of research.
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