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Remote sensing applications: A book by NRSC (2010)

This book by the National Remote Sensing Centre, focusses on remote sensing technology-based applications on land,water, atmosphere and natural disasters.

Author : M M Ali, Arindam Guha, Badrinath K V S, Bhanumurthy V, Bhavani S V L, Biswadip Gharai, Hebbar R, Jha CS, Kameshwara Rao SVC, Kamini J, Manjusree P, Murthy CS, Murthy MSR, Raju PV, Ramana KV, Ramesh B, Rao KH, Rao MV, Rao VV, Ravishankar T, Sesha Sai MVR, Seshadri K, Sreenivas K, Sridhar PN, Srinivasa Rao G, Subramanian SK, Sudhakar S, Tapas RM, Venugopala Rao K, Vinod Kumar K

Published:1st Feb, 2011 at 5:52 PM

Updated:1st Feb, 2011 at 5:52 PM

The book covers 16 chapters addressing various applications starting with introduction, state of art technology, case studies, literature review, future trends besides providing relevant references which are more useful for operational scientists and researchers. The resource scientists from Remote sensing & GIS applications area have contributed these chapters.

The book was published as training material for distribution to course participants attending 12 weeks course at NRSC, Hyderabad and has been compiled and edited by P.S. Roy, R.S Dwivedi and D.Vijayan.

The chapters include:

Contents
Chapter 1: Agriculture
Chapter 2: Land use and land cover analysis
Chapter 3: Forest and vegetation
Chapter 4: Soils and land degradation
Chapter 5: Urban and regional planning
Chapter 6: Water resources management
Chapter 7: Geosciences
Chapter 8: Groundwater
Chapter 9: Oceans
Chapter 10: Atmosphere
Chapter 11: Cyclones
Chapter 12: Flood disaster management
- Part I
- Part II
Chapter 13: Agricultural drought monitoring and assessment
Chapter 14: Landslides
Chapter 15: Earthquake and active faults
Chapter 16: Forest fire monitoring

Download the full book or individual chapters below:

Remote_Sensing_Applications_Contents_NRSC_2010.pdf