Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies for Monitoring and Prediction of Disasters
Publication year: 2008
ISBN: 978-3-540-79259-8
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Lessons learned in the last several years have given clear indications that the prediction and efficient monitoring of disasters is one of the critical factors in decision-making process. In this respect space-based technologies have the great potential of supplying information in near real time. This book focuses on a wider utilisation of remote sensing in disaster management.
Subject: Earth and Environmental Science, Data Integration, Disaster Monitoring, Disaster Response, GIS, Geoinformationssysteme, ecosystem, geographic data, geoinformation, geospatial, network analysis, remote sensing, satellite, spatial data infrastructure, Geographical Information Systems, Cartography, Earth Sciences, general, Multimedia Information Systems
