Introduction to Challenges and Future Directions in Remote Sensing and GIScience
This book provides an overview of remote sensing and GIScience (GIS) and their challenges and future directions. Modern technology like remote sensing and GIS with timely and accurate information helps to monitor and analyze a wide range of phenomena like
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Abstract This book provides an overview of remote sensing and GIScience (GIS) and their challenges and future directions. Modern technology like remote sensing and GIS with timely and accurate information helps to monitor and analyze a wide range of phenomena like water, vegetation, land, and human activities. Interdisciplinary studies are also noticed in human–environment interaction between stakeholders and decision makers for real world applications. Remote sensing data products and their limitations are also discussed in the book. To overcome this situation, artificial intelligence (AI), along with cloud computing and big data analytics, is the need of the hour. Decision support system based on the AI in remote sensing and GIS is key to the implementation of decision-making and planning in a sustainable manner. The book is segregated into 5 parts spreading over 15 chapters. Part I discusses the challenges and future direction of remote sensing and GIS in various fields. Chapters 2–5 in the second part are devoted to challenges in sustainable natural resources management. Various applications of remote sensing and GIS in urban growth management are presented in Chapters 6–9 of Part III. In Part IV, challenges and future directions in GIS have been discuss in Chapters 10–14 through GIS modeling. Part V devoted to one chapter deals with the GIS revolution in science and society. Keywords Remote sensing · GIScience · Challenges and Future direction
R. Ahmed Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, Delhi, India P. Kumar (*) College of Horticulture and Forestry, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India M. Rani Department of Geography, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 P. Kumar et al. (eds.), Remote Sensing and GIScience, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55092-9_1
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Development of remote sensing and GIScience (GIS) is crucial for scientific exploration of the earth’s system, such as hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere. The phenomenon of the earth’s system such as natural and human-induced has much significance in today’s world. Remote sensing and GIS are modern technologies with timely and accurate information. Information access through these technologies helps to monitor and analyze a wide range of phenomena like water, vegetation, land, and human activities. It also helps to explore the potential natural resources for human use. Therefore, it is being used widely in various disciplines and multidisciplinary subject areas for decision-making and problem-solving processes. The human–environment interaction (HEI) plays a key role in the dynamics of global environmental system. HEI analysis uses disparate datasets for every particular study. However, there are some similarities between methods and techniques in remote sensing and GIS practitioners. It creates an inter-di
