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Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies for Monitoring and Prediction of Disasters

Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies for Monitoring and Prediction of Disasters

Zlatanova, Sisi
Nayak, Shailesh

Paperback

General ComputersGeographyGeology

ISBN10: 3642098150
ISBN13: 9783642098154
Publisher: Springer
Published: Nov 22 2010
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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. Earth observation satellites have already demonstrated their flexibility in providing data to a wide range of applications: weather forecasting, person and vehicle tracking, alerting to disaster, forest fire and flood monitoring, oil spills, spread of desertification, monitoring of crop and forestry damages.

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