Using orbital sensors data in conjunction with airborne and proximal sensors to generate information on soils and agricultural resources, forests, mineral resources, fossil fuel, wetlands, water resources, and marine resources, this book focuses on the advancements in technologies applicable to managing these resources, including SDI.
Using orbital sensors data in conjunction with airborne and proximal sensors to generate information on soils and agricultural resources, forests, mineral resources, fossil fuel, wetlands, water resources, and marine resources, this book focuses on the advancements in technologies applicable to managing these resources, including SDI.
With over three decades of experience in applications of geospatial technologies in Agriculture at the National Remote Sensing Centre, Indian Space Research Organization, Government of India, Hyderabad, Dr. Ravi Shankar Dwivedi is an expert in land resource management, including soil resources inventory, mapping and monitoring land degradation/ desertification, wastelands, and land use/ land cover, using a variety of remote sensing data. He has experience in the generation of action/developmental plans for watershed management and its impact assessment using a variety of sensor data and GIS. He has been associated with Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, India as an Academic Advisor/Guest Faculty member since 2012. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India, and holds awards from the Indian Society of Remote Sensing for outstanding contribution in the field of remote sensing and the Doreen Mashler Team Award for outstanding contribution to integrated watershed management for sustainable development (as a member of ICRISAT team). He is also Associate Editor of the Photogrammetric Engineering Remote Sensing journal.
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1. Remote Sensing. 2. Photogrammetry. 3. Geographic Information Systems. 4. Internet Technologies. 5.Natural Resources Management. 6. Minerals, Oil, and Fossil Fuels. 7. Soil Resources. 8. Agriculture Resources. 9. Forest Resources. 10. Land Degradation Neutrality. 11. Wetlands. 12. Water Resources. 13. Marine Resources. 14. Recent Progress in Cryosphere Studies. 15. Geospatial Technologies and Climate Change. 16. Spatial Data Infrastructure.
