Natural Resource Monitoring, Planning and Management Based on Advanced Programming

This book focuses on cloud-based platforms, advanced programming, machine learning models and programming approaches to assess water and other natural resources, flood impact, land use land cover (LULC), global forest change, global forest canopy height and pantropical nation-level carbon stock, among other areas. Sustainable management of natural resources is urgently needed, given the immense anthropogenic pressure on the environment and the accelerated change in climatic conditions of the earth; therefore, the ability to monitor natural resources precisely and accurately is increasingly important. To meet this demand, new and advanced remote sensing tools and techniques are continually being developed to monitor and manage natural resources effectively. Remote sensing platforms use various sensors to record, measure and monitor even minor variations in the earth's surface features as well as atmospheric constituents.

This book shows how environmental and ecological knowledge and satellite-based information can be effectively combined to address a wide array of current natural resource management needs. Each chapter covers the different aspects of a remote sensing approach to effectively monitor natural resources and provide a platform for decision making and policy. The book is a valuable resource for researchers, scientists, NGOs and academicians working on climate change, environmental sciences, agriculture engineering, remote sensing and GIS, natural resources management, hydrology, soil sciences, agricultural microbiology, plant pathology and agronomy.

Mr. Arun Pratap Mishra holds a postgraduate degree in Environmental Science from Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal (Central) University, Uttarakhand, India. He has made valuable contributions to the scientific community through his publications, which include 20 research articles, 10 book chapters, 3 conference papers, and 1 technical report. He has gained valuable professional experience as Project Fellow at esteemed institutions such as Uttarakhand Space Application Centre, Botanical Survey of India, and RBased Services Private Limited. He has also completed a postgraduate diploma in Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems (RS&GIS) from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS, ISRO), which has further enhanced his expertise in advanced technologies. Mr. Mishra is currently employed as Project Associate at Wildlife Institute of India, Uttarakhand, where he uses innovative computational techniques to advance ecological research and conservation efforts.

Mr. Atul Kaushik received his M.Sc. in Environmental Science from the Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, and M.Tech. in Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems (RS&GIS) from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun. Currently, he is Research Scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, where his work is focused on multi-temporal and multi-sensor satellite data for studying carbon dynamics in different types of vegetation in India. He has previously worked as Research Staff at Uttarakhand Space Application Centre (USAC), Dehradun, and as Project Associate at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru He has been actively involved in the RS&GIS discipline for the past five years, with experience in working with optical, radar as well as LIDAR datasets for mapping and monitoring activities of vegetation and water resources.

Dr. Chaitanya B. Pande completed his Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, and M.Sc. in Geo-informatics from Amravati University in 2011.  He is Research Fellow at the International University. His research interests include remote sensing, GIS, Google Earth Engine, machine learning, watershed management, hydrogeology, hydrological modelling, drought monitoring, land use and land cover analysis, groundwater quality, urban planning, hydro-geochemistry, groundwater modelling, geology, hyperspectral remote sensing, remote sensing and GIS application in natural resources management, watershed management and environmental monitoring and assessment subjects. He has more than 12 years of teaching, research, and industrial experience. So far, he has published above 120+ international and national research papers, 3 textbooks, 15+ edited books, 19 conference papers, and 30 book chapters in Scopus index. He also acts as a reviewer for several scientific international journals and editorial board member in American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences.