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GNSS Environmental Sensing - Revolutionizing Environmental Monitoring (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2018) Loot Price: R5,874
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GNSS Environmental Sensing - Revolutionizing Environmental Monitoring (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2018): Joseph Awange

GNSS Environmental Sensing - Revolutionizing Environmental Monitoring (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2018)

Joseph Awange

Series: Environmental Science and Engineering

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This book is the second edition of Environmental Monitoring using GNSS and highlights the latest developments in global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). It features a completely new title and additional chapters that present emerging challenges to environmental monitoring-"climate variability/change and food insecurity." Since the publication of the first edition, much has changed in both the development and applications of GNSS, a satellite microwave remote sensing technique. It is the first tool to span all four dimensions of relevance to humans (position, navigation, timing and the environment), and it has widely been used for positioning (both by military and civilians), navigation and timing. Its increasing use is leading to a new era of remote sensing that is now revolutionizing the art of monitoring our environment in ways never imagined before. On the one hand, nearly all GNSS satellites (Global Positioning System (GPS), Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), Galileo and Beidou) have become operational, thereby providing high-precision, continuous, all-weather and near real- time remote sensing multi-signals beneficial to environmental monitoring. On the other hand, the emerging challenges of precisely monitoring climate change and the demand for the production of sufficient food for ever-increasing populations are pushing traditional monitoring methods to their limits. In this regard, refracted GNSS signals (i.e., occulted GNSS signals or GNSS meteorology) are now emerging as sensors of climate variability, while the reflected signals (GNSS reflectometry or GNSS-R) are increasingly finding applications in determining, e.g., soil moisture content, ice and snow thickness, ocean heights, and wind speed and direction, among others. Furthermore, the increasing recognition and application of GNSS-supported unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAV)/drones in agriculture (e.g., through the determination of water holding capacity of soil) highlights the new challenges facing GNSS. As such, this new edition three new chapters address GNSS reflectometry and applications; GNSS sensing of climate variability; and the applications in UAV/drones. Moreover, it explores the application of GNSS to support integrated coastal zone management.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Environmental Science and Engineering
Release date: September 2017
First published: 2018
Authors: Joseph Awange
Dimensions: 235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 452
Edition: 2nd ed. 2018
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-58417-1
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources
Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > Environmental monitoring
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LSN: 3-319-58417-0
Barcode: 9783319584171

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