Remote sensing applications: A book by NRSC (2010)

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
  • Part I
  • Part II
  • Part III
• 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

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