Remote Sensing and GIScience : Challenges and Future Directions [1st ed.] 9783030550912, 9783030550929

Table of contents :
Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Introduction to Challenges and Future Directions in Remote Sensing and GIScience (Raihan Ahmed, Pavan Kumar, Meenu Rani)....Pages 3-7
Front Matter ....Pages 9-9
Environmental and Livelihood Impact Assessment of 2013 Flash Flood in Alakananda and Mandakini River Valley, Uttarakhand (India), Using Environmental Evaluation System and Geospatial Techniques (Shruti Tripathi, G. Areendran, N. C. Gupta, Krishna Raj, Mehebub Sahana)....Pages 11-34
Assessment of Vegetation Vigor Using Integrated Synthetic Aperture Radars (Suman Sinha)....Pages 35-58
Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Using Bivariate Frequency Ratio Model and Geospatial Techniques: A Case from Karbi Anglong West District in Assam, India (Raihan Ahmed, Ravinder Singh, Haroon Sajjad)....Pages 59-73
Retreating Glacier Dynamics Over the Last Quarter of a Century in Uttarakhand Region Using Optical Sensor Time Series Data (Himanshu Kalita, Tapan Ghosh, Meenu Rani, J. S. Rawat, Ram Kumar Singh, Susheel Kumar Singh et al.)....Pages 75-93
Front Matter ....Pages 95-95
Studying the Impact of Urbanization on HYV Rice Fields at a Local Level Using Fine Resolution Temporal RISAT-1 Datasets (Koel Roychowdhury)....Pages 97-112
Identification of Impervious Built-Up Surface Features Using ResourceSat-2 LISS-III-Based Novel Optical Built-Up Index (Abhisek Santra, Shreyashi Santra Mitra, Suman Sinha, Shidharth Routh, Akhilesh Kumar)....Pages 113-126
Subsidence Assessment of Building Blocks in Hanoi Urban Area from 2011 to 2014 Using TerraSAR-X and COSMO-SkyMed Images and PSInSAR (Van Anh Tran, Quoc Cuong Tran, Duc Anh Nguyen, Tong Minh Dinh Ho, Anh The Hoang, Trung Khien Ha et al.)....Pages 127-150
Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover Mapping for Sustainable Land Resources Development of Hisar District, Haryana, India (B. S. Chaudhary, Reeta Rani, Sanjeev Kumar, Y. P. Sundriyal, Pavan Kumar)....Pages 151-165
Front Matter ....Pages 167-167
A Spatial Investigation of the Feasibility of Solar Resource Energy Potential in Planning the Solar Cities of India (Koel Roychowdhury, Radhika Bhanja)....Pages 169-184
Mapping Rice Growth Stages Employing MODIS NDVI and ALOS AVNIR-2 (Dyah R. Panuju, David J. Paull, Amy L. Griffin, Bambang H. Trisasongko)....Pages 185-203
Habitat Suitability Mapping of Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus) in the Sariska Tiger Reserve (India) Using a GIS-Based Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (Purva Jain, Raihan Ahmed, Haroon Sajjad, Mehebub Sahana, Abolfazl Jaafari, Jie Dou et al.)....Pages 205-227
Estimation of Air Pollution Using Regression Modelling Approach for Mumbai Region, Maharashtra, India (Maya Kumari, Shivangi S. Somvanshi, Syed Zubair)....Pages 229-247
Mapping of Agriculture Productivity Variability for the SAARC Nations in Response to Climate Change Scenario for the Year 2050 (Ram Kumar Singh, Vinay Shankar Prasad Sinha, Pawan Kumar Joshi, Manoj Kumar)....Pages 249-262
Front Matter ....Pages 263-263
Future Direction of GIScience for Revolution in Science and Society Over the Past 20 Years (Bharat Lal, Susheel Kumar Singh, Meenu Rani, Abhishek Kumar Shukla, Pavan Kumar)....Pages 265-272