Geoinformatics for Tropical Ecosystems
Contents: 1. Tropical forests, deforestation and ecosystems services: Contributions of remote sensing/R.S. DeFries. 2. Assessment of tropical forest cover from satellite images at different geographical scales: case studies from Southeast Asia/H.J. Stibig and F. Achard. 3. Global-scale AVHRR data for land cover analysis in the tropics/S.S. Young. 4. Accuracy assessment of remote sensing in detecting tropical deforestation in Southeast Asia/Yousif Ali Hussin. 5. Forest fire monitoring in East Kalimanthan, Indonesia-an application of multi-temporal microwave data/P.K. Joshi and D.H. Hoekman. 6. A new approach to woody biomass assessment in woodlands and shrublands/Alfred De Gier. 7. Satellite remote sensing for forest management/P.S. Roy, Sameer Saran, P.K. Joshi and M.B. Chandrashekhar. 8. Landscape ecology and biodiversity conservation/P.S. Roy and P.K. Joshi. 9. LiDAR remote sensing for forest ecosystem studies/P.S. Roy, P.K. Joshi and B. Lohani. 10. Tools for integrated land use planning in tropical countries/Sylvia Herrmann, Luis Samaniego, Bipin Shinde and Manoj Kumar Roy. 11. Spectral behaviour of tropical soils and implications for the monitoring of vegetation/Lenio Soares Galvao and Icaro Vitorello. 12. Satellite remote sensing and geographic information system applications in sustainable agriculture/N.R. Patel and S.K. Saha. 13. Integrated remote sensing and GIS applications for agro-ecological zoning in Vietnam/Nguyen Thanh Xuan. 14. Water resource assessment using agro-hydrological model and remote sensing (a case study on the river ganges)/S. Ochi, K.S. Rajan, S. Priya, G. X. Tan and R. Shibasaki. 15. Grassland assessment using satellite remote sensing - a study in Himalayan landscape (India)/M.C. Porwal, D.N. Pant and L. Sharma. 16. Satellite images for the monitoring of wetlands and assessing their water budgets/Allard M.J. Meijerink and Zoltan Vekerdy. 17. Landscape dynamics in the Maipo Ramsar Wetland site/Fung Tung. 18. Geo-spatial characterization of biodiversity at landscape level in the Andaman Islands: India/M.C. Porwal, B.K. Rangnath, M.G. Rajshekhar, Stutee Gupta, Nidhi Chauhan, Hitendra Padaliya, N. Pradeep, Ram Chandra Prasad and P.S. Roy. 19. Remote sensing application in glaciers: a review and case studies of Himalayan glaciers/G. Philip and R.K. Mazari. 20. Monitoring urban heat environment using MODIS data for main cities in East Asia/Shiro Ochi, Daisuke Uchihama, Wataru Takeuchi and Yoshifumi Yasuoka. 21. To alleviate flood disasters by integrating the hydrodynamic model MIKE 11 and geographical information system/Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Farah Aziz and Ole Mark. 22. Rethinking community geographic information system/Ayon Tarafdar, Bal Krishna and Ravi Gupta. Author Index.
"Most of the world\'s ecosystems are in a state of constant change at various spatial and temporal scales by a variety of socio-economic and environmental factors. The changes today particularly in Tropical Ecosystems are more extensive and occur at faster rate than ever before. It has impacted the alterations in biodiversity, hydrological and biogeochemical cycle. The developments in the geoinformatics provide opportunity to gather information on ecosystems in space and time for vast range of scientific discipline.
The book brings out work carried out in tropical for assessment and monitoring of forests, biodiversity, agricultural system, wet lands, coastal resources and glaciers. In this issue we intend to cover the applications of geospatial tools in a wide range of tropical ecosystems that are concerned with land surface conditions and processes. The emphasizes on:
A conceptual guide to ecosystem approaches and management in tropics.
"Covers an entire spectrum of tropical ecosystems, their issues and management.
"Provides latest development of geospatial technology and applications for vegetation science, environment, biodiversity, agriculture, forestry and socio-economic aspects.
"A ready reference for the students, teachers and researchers working for tropical ecosystems.
"The book advocates the development and application of geoinformatics for the Tropical Ecosystem Management as a vital tool that retains its importance for monitoring, assessment and decision-making. The chapters included in this book encompass wide range of themes, viz., land use/cover databases, forest and its processes, soil resources, agricultural systems, grassland ecosystem, hydrology, wetlands, glaciers and looking forward for the urban and community GIS. The application of remote sensing tool has been demonstrated for the aforesaid ecosystems." (jacket)
