Earth Observations and Geospatial Science in Service of Sustainable Development Goals

Part I Space and Geospatial Science for Sustainable Development Goals Earth Observation for Water Resource Management and Sustainable Development.- River Long Profiles of Selected Third-Order Basins in Basement Complexes.- A Remote Sensing Based Approach for Optimizing the Sampling Strategies in Crop Monitoring and Crop Yield Estimation Studies.- Part II Remote Sensing and GIS for Natural Resources Management.- GIS Based Analysis of the Extent and Dynamic of Forest Cover Changes Between 1990-2017 Using Geospatial Techniques: In Case of Gog District, Gambella Regional State, Western Ethiopia.- Conflict and Agricultural Production: Using Earth Observation to Assess Productivity and Support Rehabilitation in Syria.- Morphometric Analyses of Tarhuna Drainage Basins to Accesses Groundwater Potential Using GIS Techniques.- Change Detection in the Horticultural Region of Cape Town Using Landsat Imagery.- Part III Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Coastal Zone Management.- Assessment of Lake Victoria's Trophic Status Using Satellite-Derived Secchi Disk Depth.- Part IV Applications of Advanced Remote Sensing Technologies (LIDAR, Hyperspectral) in Africa.- Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Small Scale Precision Farming in Botswana.- Part V Climate Changes Implications on Sustainable Development in Africa.- Spatiotemporal Analysis of Sitatunga (Tragelaphus Spekei) Population's Response to Flood Variability in Northern Botswana Wetlands: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation.- Assessment of the Impact of Deforestation on Forest Carbon Storage. A Case Study of Mabira Forest, Uganda.- Part VI Space Technologies and Geospatial Sciences for Early Warning Systems.- Analysis of the 2012 Flooding Events Downstream of Shiroro Reservoir, A Case of Gurmana Niger State, Nigeria.- Part VII Big Data and Data Mining of Geospatial Data.- Remote Sensing Analysis of the Evolution and Retreat Dynamics of the Auchi Gully, Southwestern Nigeria.- Optimizing the Selection of Spatial and Non-spatial Data for Higher Accuracy Multi-scale Classification of Urban Environments.- Investigating the Potential of Common Earth Observation Satellite Imagery for Automated Multi-criteria Mapping of Urban Landscape at Municipal Level in South Africa.-Integrating GIS and Remote Sensing for Suitability Assessment of Dams in Solai Nakuru: Kenya.