{"product_id":"9783662521502","title":"Environmental Science and Engineering: Monitoring and Management","description":"\u003ch1\u003eEnvironmental Science and Engineering: Monitoring and Management\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eAwange, Joseph L.; Kyalo Kiema, John B.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no doubt that today, perhaps more than ever before, humanity faces a myriad of complex and demanding challenges. These include natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, food and water insecurity, energy shortages, diminishing biodiversity, increasing losses from natural disasters, and climate change with its associated potentially devastating consequences, such as rising sea levels.\u003cbr\u003eThese \u003ci\u003ehuman-induced\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003enatural impacts\u003c\/i\u003e on the environment need to be well understood in order to develop \u003ci\u003einformed policies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003edecisions\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eremedial measures\u003c\/i\u003e to mitigate current and future negative impacts. To achieve this, continuous monitoring and management of the environment to acquire data that can be soundly and rigorously analyzed to provide information about its current state and changing patterns, and thereby allow predictions of possible future impacts, are essential. Developing pragmatic and sustainable solutions to address these and many other similar challenges requires the use of \u003ci\u003egeodata\u003c\/i\u003e and the application of \u003ci\u003egeoinformatics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eThis book presents the concepts and applications of geoinformatics, a multidisciplinary field that has at its core different technologies that support the acquisition, analysis and visualization of geodata for environmental monitoring and management. We depart from the 4D to the 5D data paradigm, which defines geodata accurately, consistently, rapidly and completely, in order to be useful without any restrictions in \u003ci\u003espace\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003etime\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003escale\u003c\/i\u003e to represent a truly global dimension of the \u003ci\u003edigital Earth\u003c\/i\u003e. The book also features the state-of-the-art discussion of Web-GIS. \u003cbr\u003eThe concepts and applications of geoinformatics presented in this book will be of benefit to decision-makers across a wide range of fields, including those at environmental agencies, in the emergency services, public health and epidemiology, crime mapping, environmentalmanagement agencies, tourist industry, market analysis and e-commerce, or mineral exploration, among many others.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe title and subtitle of this textbook convey a distinct message. Monitoring -the passive part in the subtitle - refers to observation and data acquisition, whereas management - the active component - stands for operation and performance. The topic is our environment, which is intimately related to geoinformatics. The overall message is: all the mentioned elements do interact and must not be separated.  Hans-Peter B ahr, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c., Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2016-08-27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783662521502\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-642-34085-7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 541\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Berlin Heidelberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46917242060940,"sku":"9783662521502","price":161.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783662521502.jpg?v=1774497632","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783662521502","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}