Geospatial Practices in Natural Resources Management

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This book provides a multidisciplinary synthesis of the sustainable management of natural resources. The book presents applicable knowledge of land, water, and forest resources along with in-depth investigations of multiple management pathways. This book also demonstrated the contemporary applications of geospatial technology in data mining techniques, data analysis, modeling, assessment, and visualization, and appropriate management strategies in different aspects of natural resources. The book explores the latest state-of-the-art techniques using open-source software, statistical programming, and modeling platforms, including artificial intelligence techniques in natural resource management. It is a valuable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners in geography, geospatial sciences, and environmental sciences, especially those interested in land, water, and forest resources.

Keywords

• Eco-geomorphology
• Hydrology
• Anthropogenic
• Spatial Modelling
• R software
• Digital Mapping
• Ecology and Restoration
• Forest-Land-water Resources
• Wetland Health
• Development

Table of contents (26 chapters)

Front Matter

Land Resources

Front Matter

Big Data Analysis for Sustainable Land Management on Geospatial Cloud Framework

• Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit

Assessing of LULC and Climate Change in Kolkata Urban Agglomeration Using MOLUSCE Model

• Satiprasad Sahoo, Suprakash Pan

Field Survey and Geoinformatic Approaches for Micro-Level Land Capability Classification

• V. S. Pawar-Patil, Sainath Aher, Vidya Chougule, Sandipan Das, Rushikesh Patil

Assessment of Potential Land Suitability for Economic Activity Using AHP and GIS Techniques in Drought Prone Gandheswari Watershed, Bankura District in West Bengal

• Ujjal Senapati, Dipankar Saha, Tapan Kumar Das

Spatial–Temporal Changes of Urban Sprawl, LULC and Dynamic Relationship Between Land Surface Temperature (LST) and Bio-Physical Indicators: A Study of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, West Bengal

• Gourab Saha, Sandipan Das, Suvarna Tikle, Pravat Kumar Shit

Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Urban Land Use Applying Change Detection and Built-Up Index for Durgapur Municipal Corporation, Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal

• Tapan Kumar Das, Subham Kumar Roy, Masud Karim, Dipankar Saha

Studies on Impacts of Land Use/Land Cover Changes on Groundwater Resources: A Critical Review

• Suvendu Halder, Satiprasad Sahoo, Tumpa Hazra, Anupam Debsarkar