Remote Sensing and GIScience: Challenges and Future Directions

Foreword

Section 1 General

Chapter 1: Introduction to Challenges and Future Directions in Remote Sensing and GIScience

Raihan Ahmed, Pavan Kumar, Meenu Rani

Section II Challenges in Sustainable Natural Resources Management

Chapter 2: 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

Chapter 3: Assessment of Vegetation Vigor using Integrated Synthetic Aperture Radars

Suman Sinha

Chapter 4: 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 and Haroon Sajjad

Chapter 5: Retreating Glacier Dynamics over the last quarter of a century at Uttarakhand Region using optical Sensors Time Series Data

Section III Remote Sensing and GIScience in Urban Growth Management

Chapter 6: Studying the Impact of Urbanization on HYV Rice Fields at a Local Level using Fine Resolution Temporal RISAT-1 Datasets

Koel Roychowdhury

Chapter 7: 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

Chapter 8: Assessment of Building Subsidence in Hanoi Urban Area from 2011 to 2014 by high resolution Radar satellite images

Tran Van Anh, Tran Quoc Cuong, Nguyen Duc Anh, Ho Tong Minh Dinh, Hoang Anh The, Dieu Tien Bui, Ha Trung Khien

Chapter 9: Land Use/Land Cover Mapping for Sustainable Land Resources Development of Hisar District, Haryana, India

B. S. Chaudhary, Reeta Rani, Sanjeev Kumar, YP Sundriyal, Pavan Kumar

Section IV Challenges and Future Directions in GIScience

Chapter 10 A Spatial Investigation of the Feasibility of Solar Resource Energy Potential in Planning the Solar Cities of INDIA

Koel Roychowdhury, Radhika Bhanja

Chapter 11 Mapping Rice Growth Stages Employing MODIS NDVI and ALOS AVNIR-2

Chapter 12 Habitat Suitability Mapping of Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus) in the Sariska Tiger Reserve (India) using a GIS-based Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process

Chapter 13 Estimation of Air Pollution Using Regression Modelling Approach for Mumbai Region Maharashtra, India

Maya Kumari, Shivangi S. Somvanshi, Syed Zubair

Chapter 14 Mapping of Agriculture Productivity Variability for the SAARC Nations year 2050

Ram Kumar Singh, Vinay Shankar Prasad Sinha, Pawan Kumar Joshi, Manoj Kumar

Section V GIScience for Revolution in Science and Society

Chapter 15 Future Direction of GIScience for Revolution in Science and Society over the Past Twenty Years

Bharat Lal, Susheel Kumar Singh, Meenu Rani, Abhishek Kumar Sukla, Pavan Kumar