Geospatial Technologies in Land Resources Mapping, Monitoring and Management

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii
 Geospatial Technologies in Land Resources Mapping, Monitoring, and Management: An Overview  (G. P. Obi Reddy)....Pages 1-18
Front Matter ....Pages 19-19
 Satellite Remote Sensing Sensors: Principles and Applications  (G. P. Obi Reddy)....Pages 21-43
 Geographic Information System: Principles and Applications  (G. P. Obi Reddy)....Pages 45-62
 Global Positioning System: Principles and Applications  (G. P. Obi Reddy)....Pages 63-74
 Geo-ICDTs: Principles and Applications in Agriculture  (Saurabh Suradhaniwar, Soumyashree Kar, Rohit Nandan, Rahul Raj, Adinarayana Jagarlapudi)....Pages 75-99
 Digital Image Processing: Principles and Applications  (G. P. Obi Reddy)....Pages 101-126
 Spatial Data Management, Analysis, and Modeling in GIS: Principles and Applications  (G. P. Obi Reddy)....Pages 127-142
 Geostatistics: Principles and Applications in Spatial Mapping of Soil Properties  (Nirmal Kumar, N. K. Sinha)....Pages 143-159
Front Matter ....Pages 161-161
 Land Resource Inventory for Agricultural Land Use Planning Using Geospatial Techniques  (S. K. Singh, S. Chatterji)....Pages 163-183
 Open-Source Satellite Data and GIS for Land Resource Mapping  (Nirmal Kumar, S. K. Singh, V. N. Mishra, G. P. Obi Reddy, R. K. Bajpai)....Pages 185-200
 Remote Sensing and GIS in Digital Terrain Modeling  (G. P. Obi Reddy)....Pages 201-222
 Remote Sensing and GIS for Geomorphological Mapping  (G. P. Obi Reddy)....Pages 223-252
 Geospatial Technologies for Semiautomated Baseline Database Generation for Large-Scale Land Resource Inventory  (S. Chattaraj, S. K. Singh, S. K. Ray, V. Ramamurthy, A. Daripa, G. P. Obi Reddy)....Pages 253-271
 Pedogeomorphic Analysis in Land Resource Inventory: A Case Study from Central India  (B. P. Bhaskar)....Pages 273-296
 Land Resource Inventory and Mapping: Tools and Techniques  (S. K. Gangopadhyay, G. P. Obi Reddy, D. C. Nayak, S. K. Singh)....Pages 297-322
 Applications of Remote Sensing in Land Resource Inventory and Mapping  (Rajeev Srivastava)....Pages 323-334
 Land Resource Inventory for Village-Level Agricultural Land Use Planning  (Nisha Sahu, G. P. Obi Reddy, Rajeev Srivastava, Narayan Lal, S. K. Singh)....Pages 335-352
Front Matter ....Pages 353-353
 Remote Sensing for Land Resource Monitoring and Management  (Suresh Kumar)....Pages 355-375
 Remote Sensing and GIS in Agriculture and Forest Resource Monitoring  (Jugal Kishore Mani, A. O. Varghese)....Pages 377-400
 Remote Sensing and GIS in Mapping and Monitoring of Land Degradation  (G. P. Obi Reddy, Nirmal Kumar, S. K. Singh)....Pages 401-424
 Monitoring of Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Rabi Rice Fallows in South Asia Using Remote Sensing  (Murali Krishna Gumma, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla, Anthony M. Whitbread)....Pages 425-449
 Land Resources Information System and NBSS BHOOMI Geoportal for Land Resource Monitoring and Management  (G. P. Obi Reddy, S. K. Singh)....Pages 451-468
Front Matter ....Pages 469-469
 Land Use Planning: Basics and Approaches  (T. K. Sen, S. Chatterji)....Pages 471-488
 Integrated Remote Sensing, GIS, and GPS Applications in Agricultural Land Use Planning  (G. P. Obi Reddy, V. Ramamurthy, S. K. Singh)....Pages 489-515
 Trends in Land Resource Management and Land Use Planning  (V. Ramamurthy)....Pages 517-549
 Soil-Based Land Use Planning: Impacts on Livelihood Security  (V. Ramamurthy)....Pages 551-567
 Geospatial Technologies in Integrated Watershed Management  (G. P. Obi Reddy)....Pages 569-586
 Geospatial Applications in Water Resource Management with Special Reference to Climate Change  (Y. B. Katpatal)....Pages 587-601
 Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Micro Level Planning  (G. Sreenivasan, Y. V. N. Krishna Murthy)....Pages 603-631
Back Matter ....Pages 633-638