Advances in Remote Sensing for Natural Resource Monitoring

List of abbreviations List of Contributors List of Editors Foreword [to come] Preface [to come] Section I General Chapter 1 Introduction to Natural Resource Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Technology Prem Chandra PANDEY and Laxmi Kant SHARMA Chapter 2 Spectroradiometry: Types, Data Collection, and Processing Manish Kumar PANDEY, Ayushi GUPTA, Prachi SINGH, Prem Chandra PANDEY, Prashant K SRIVASTAVA Chapter 3 Geometric-optical modeling of Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function for trees and forest stands Nour El Islam BACHARI, Salim LAMINE & Khaled MEHARRAR Section II Vegetation Resource Monitoring (Forest and Agriculture) Chapter 4 Mapping Stand Age of Indonesian Rubber Plantation using Fully Polarimetric L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Bambang H. TRISASONGKO Chapter 5 Responses of Multi-Frequency Remote Sensing to Forest Biomass Suman SINHA, A. SANTRA, L.K. SHARMA, A.K. DAS, C. JEGANATHAN, Shiv MOHAN, S.S. MITRA, M.S. NATHAWAT Chapter 6 Crop water Requirements Analysis Using Geoinformatics Techniques in the Water Scarce Semi-Arid Watershed Ibrahim-Bathis. K, SA AHMED, Nischitha.V and M.A Mohammed-ASLAM Chapter 7 Biophysical Characterization and Monitoring Large-Scale Water and Vegetation Anomalies by Remote Sensing in the Agricultural Growing Areas of the Brazilian Semiarid Region Antônio Heriberto de Castro TEIXEIRA; Janice Freitas LEIVAS; Edson Patto PACHECO; Edlene Aparecida Monteiro GARÇON & Celina Maki TAKEMURA Chapter 8 SMOS L4 Downscaled Soil Moisture Product Evaluation over a 2 year- period in a Mediterranean Setting Patrick N. L. LAMPTEY, George P. PETROPOULOS, Prashant K. SRIVASTAVA Chapter 9 Estimating Urban Population Density Using Remotely Sensed Imagery Products Dimitris TRIANTAKONSTANTIS, Demetris STATHAKIS and Zoi PAPADOPOULOU Chapter 10 Impact of Land Cover Change on Surface Runoff Apoorv SOOD, S.K.GHOSH, Priyadarshi UPADHYAY Chapter 11 Delineation of Ground Water Potential Zone and Site Suitability of Rainwater Harvesting Structures using Remote Sensing and In-situ Geophysical Measurements Prachi SINGH, Akash ANAND, Prashant K. SRIVASTAVA, Arjun SINGH and Prem Chandra PANDEY Chapter 12 Structural control on the landscape Evolution of Son Alluvial Fan System in Ganga foreland basin Manish PANDEY, Yogesh RAY, Aman ARORA, UK SHUKLA, Shyam RANJAN Chapter 13 Managing the Blue Carbon Ecosystem: A Remote Sensing and GIS Approaches Parul MAURYA, Anup Kumar DAS, Rina KUMARI Chapter 14 Appraising the Changing Climate and Extent of Snow in the Kashmir Himalaya using MODIS data Seema RANI Chapter 15 Knowledge-based mapping of debris-covered glaciers in the Greater Himalayan Range Swagata GHOSH and RAAJ RAMSANKARAN Chapter 16 Seawater Intrusion and Salinity Mapping in coastal Aquifers: A Geospatial approach TANUSHREE, Rina KUMARI Chapter 17 Wetland Inundated Area Modelling and Monitoring using Supervised and machine learning classifiers Swapan TALUKDAR, Sakshi MANKOTIA, Md SHAMIMUZZAMAN, SHAHFAHAD, Susanta MAHATO Chapter 18 A Focus on Reagrregation of Playa Wetlandscapes in the Face of Global Ecological Disconnectivity Laxmikant SHARMA, Rajashree NAIK and Prem Chandra PANDEY Chapter 19 Flood Damage Assessment in a Part of the Ganga-Brahmaputra Plain Region, India Rajesh KUMAR Chapter 20 Texture Based Riverine Feature Extraction and Flood Mapping Using Satellite Images KULDEEP, P K GARG and R D GARG Chapter 21 Numerical Simulation and Comparison of Tsunami Inundation for Different Satellite Derived Datasets for the Gujarat Coast of India Shafique MATIN & PRAVEEN S S Chapter 22 Future aspects and potential of the remote sensing technology to meet the natural resource needs Laxmi Kant SHARMA, Rajit GUPTA, and Prem Chandra PANDEY