A recent UN report reveals the unprecedented decline in global biodiversity. About one million of the planet's eight million species are threatened with extinction by humans. IPBES Report Said: Main Drivers of Species Loss: Shrinking habitat Exploitation of natural resources Climate change and pollution A comparison: Human Awareness and Technology in Action This is… Continue reading Endangered Species And Technology At Rescue
Introduction Civil engineering is about developing and sustaining infrastructure. GIS and remote sensing techniques play a crucial role and serves as a complete platform in every aspect of civil engineering. Geographic information system (GIS) technology provides the tools for creating, managing, analyzing, and visualizing the data associated with developing and managing infrastructure. Remote sensing allows… Continue reading GIS and Remote Sensing: A Foundation for Next Generation Civil Engineering
Introduction Geographic information systems and remote sensing techniques use an overall approach for spatially comparing habitat aspects and species distribution. Ecological information is essential, in particular, to study various forest management methodologies concerning the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation, and perhaps to assess the impact of different places to be allocated from timber production. For species mapping,… Continue reading Habitat Suitability Mapping
In terms of economic development, infrastructure planning is critical. The use of GIS in this sector is extensive, and it may significantly save operational and administrative time and costs.GIS tools are now generally accepted to play a significant role in various sorts of infrastructure development. The majority of decisions made by local bodies at varying… Continue reading GIS For Infrastructure Planning and Development
The GIS and Remote Sensing data have been brought to use for wildlife observation in particularly for geological mapping of animals’ count in remote locations, in the raising concerns over endangered animal and bird species’ population. The use of low cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and highly accurate aerial LiDAR mapping services and digital terrain… Continue reading Using Remote Sensing for Mapping and Counting Animals
Nowadays, remotely sensed images are used for various purposes in different applications. One of them is change detection using high resolution satellite imagery of city areas. Urbanization with rapid land use and land cover change has taken place in many cities of the world in the last 50 years. In this context, comparison of extraction… Continue reading Spatial and Temporal GIS Analysis Using Change Detection
Spatial decision problems typically involve a large set of feasible alternatives & multiple evaluation criteria most of the time, these are conflicting. Alternatives & criteria are often evaluated by a number of individuals (decision-makers, managers, stakeholders, interest groups). Most of the time, they also have conflicting ideas, preferences, objectives, etc. GIS techniques & procedures have an important… Continue reading Delineating groundwater prospect zones using Multi Criteria Analysis ( MCA)
Due to inappropriate land use, erosion has become one of the most dangerous forms of soil degradation leading to significant reduction of soil fertility and crop yields. The implementation of appropriate measures is strongly needed in order to prevent further degradation of soil. For this reason, GIS and Remote Sensing have been used extensively for… Continue reading Mapping Soil Erosion using USLE
Agriculture is undergoing a revolution with increased producer acceptance of an improved management concept called Precision Farming. Simply stated, precision farming promotes greater yields and reduced input costs by ensuring that the right things are done at the right time at right place and in right amount in the field. Precision farming is a knowledge-based… Continue reading Role of Global Positioning System (GPS) / Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) in Precision Farming
In September 2011, the China National Space Administration launched an 8.5 metric tones space station which was used as a technology protocol Chinese space station being live since 2013. Tiangong-1 since 2013, gathered data which helped Chinese find minerals and monitor ocean and for forecasting applications. The Chinese space station flies over land and sea… Continue reading Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1 Crashed