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Author: Zhenhong Li
Publisher: MDPI
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 501
ISBN-13: 3038424005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Earth Observations for Geohazards" that was published in Remote Sensing
Author: George P. Petropoulos
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2017-11-02
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 1351650971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtreme weather and climate change aggravate the frequency and magnitude of disasters. Facing atypical and more severe events, existing early warning and response systems become inadequate both in scale and scope. Earth Observation (EO) provides today information at global, regional and even basin scales related to agrometeorological hazards. This book focuses on drought, flood, frost, landslides, and storms/cyclones and covers different applications of EO data used from prediction to mapping damages as well as recovery for each category. It explains the added value of EO technology in comparison with conventional techniques applied today through many case studies.
Author: Christian Brünner
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-09-11
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 331974805X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book focuses on the topic of trends and challenges with regards to satellite-based earth observation. Contributors include legal experts in the field and representatives from institutions such as the European Space Agency, the European Space Policy Institute, academia and the private sector.
Author: Bill McGuire
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-12-10
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 1118482662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClimate Forcing of Geological Hazards provides a valuable new insight into how climate change is able to influence, modulate and trigger geological and geomorphological phenomena, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and landslides; ultimately increasing the risk of natural hazards in a warmer world. Taken together, the chapters build a panorama of a field of research that is only now becoming recognized as important in the context of the likely impacts and implications of anthropogenic climate change. The observations, analyses and interpretations presented in the volume reinforce the idea that a changing climate does not simply involve the atmosphere and hydrosphere, but also elicits potentially hazardous responses from the solid Earth, or geosphere. Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards is targeted particularly at academics, graduate students and professionals with an interest in environmental change and natural hazards. As such, we are hopeful that it will encourage further investigation of those mechanisms by which contemporary climate change may drive potentially hazardous geological and geomorphological activity, and of the future ramifications for society and economy.
Author: Zhenhong Li
Publisher: MDPI
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 303842398X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Earth Observations for Geohazards" that was published in Remote Sensing)
Author: Teodolina Lopez
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2022-11-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783030879914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sentinel missions of the COPERNICUS Programme of the European Union, as well as other Earth Observation missions, provide new opportunities for systematic monitoring of natural and man-made hazards and disasters that can highly impact human societies.The contributions collected in this book address a broad range of geohazards observable from space, including earthquakes, volcanic hazards, extreme events (e.g. storm surges, floods and droughts), fires, pollution, tipping points in physical and biological systems, etc.. They provide information on how space observations can improve our understanding of the driving mechanisms at the origin of such geohazards, and of their mutual interactions. Focus is given on the expected added-value information obtained by combining different types of space-based and in situ observations as well as model results. The chapters "Space-Based Earth Observations for Disaster Risk Management", "Earth Observation for the Assessment of Earthquake Hazard, Risk and Disaster Management", "Earth Observation for Crustal Tectonics and Earthquake Hazards", "Earth Observations for Monitoring Marine Coastal Hazards and Their Drivers", "Air Pollution and Sea Pollution Seen from Space" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Previously published in Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 41, Issue 6, 2020
Author: Francesca Cigna
Publisher: MDPI
Published: 2018-04-09
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 3038427756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Observing Geohazards from Space" that was published in Geosciences
Author: Tom Beer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 1107171598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthoritative reviews on the wide-ranging ramifications of climate change, from an international team of eminent researchers.
Author: Tom Beer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2010-06-25
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9048132363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) was established as a means of raising worldwide public and political awareness of the vast, though frequently under-used, potential the Earth Sciences possess for improving the quality of life of the peoples of the world and safeguarding Earth’s rich and diverse environments. The International Year project was jointly initiated in 2000 by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and the Earth Science Division of the United Nations Educational, Scienti?c and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). IUGS, which is a Non-Governmental Organisation, and UNESCO, an Inter-Governmental Orga- sation, already shared a long record of productive cooperation in the natural sciences and their application to societal problems, including the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) now in its fourth decade. With its main goals of raising public awareness of, and enhancing research in the Earth sciences on a global scale in both the developed and less-developed countries of the world, two operational programmes were demanded. In 2002 and 2003, the Series Editors together with Dr. Ted Nield and Dr. Henk Schalke (all four being core members of the Management Team at that time) drew up outlines of a Science and an Outreach Programme. In 2005, following the UN proclamation of 2008 as the United Nations International Year of Planet Earth, the “Year” grew into a triennium (2007–2009).
Author: P.R. Cummins
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 2017-10-25
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1862399662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith dense urban populations located in one of the most active tectonic belts in the world, Indonesia is a hotspot for natural hazard risk. This volume documents some of the recent advances made by Earth scientists that contribute towards a better understanding of the geological hazards in the region.
