Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are revolutionizing the
world in a way their original developers never envisaged. From
being military "war" tools, GNSS satellites are rapidly becoming
"peace" tools that play a potentially critical role in enabling
changing environmental phenomenon that do not permit direct
measurements to be remotely observed via their all-weather, highly
accurate and continuously updatable positional time series. This is
evident, for example, in their use in emerging environmental
monitoring methods that are considered in this book. These include:
GPS-based radio telemetry, which is enhancing ecological and
conservation monitoring by more accurately mapping animal
movements, their behaviours, and their impact on the environment;
GNSS-meteorology, which is contributing to weather and climate
change studies; GNSS-remote sensing, which, for example, allows the
rapid monitoring of changes in fresh water resources and
cryosphere; Geosensor network techniques, which are earning a
crucial role in disaster response management; Epidemiology, for
improved efficiency in tracking and studying the spread of
infectious diseases and climate change effects on vector-borne
diseases; and Economics, to provide data for the econometric
modelling of casual impact of policies. In Environmental Impact
Assessments (EIA), Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA), and
Sustainability Assessments (SA), GNSS, together with other
spaced-based remote sensing techniques, are emerging, not only as
modern tools that connect the developers to the community, but also
provide information that support Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA)
methods, which inform decision making and policy formulations. By
bringing the two fields of geodesy (the parent of GNSS technology)
and environmental studies (potential users of this technology),
this book presents the concepts of GNSS in a simplified way that
can, on the one hand, be understood and utilised by
environmentalists, while on the other, outlines its potential
applications to environmental monitoring and management for those
engaged more with its technology, which hopefully will further
energise the already innovative research that is being carried out.
Lastly, this book is most relevant to all the professionals whose
work is related to the environment such as hydrologists,
meteorologists, epidemiologists, economist, and engineers, to name
just a few. A comprehensive yet candid and compelling presentation
of Global Navigation Satellite Systems and its application to
environmental monitoring and a host of other socio-economic
activities. This is an essential and new ground breaking reading
for all professional practitioners and even academics seeking to
study and become involved in using Global Navigation Satellite
Systems in diverse fields ranging from environmental monitoring to
economic activities such as monitoring weather and climate in order
to design crop failure insurance. Nathaniel O. Agola, Professor of
Business and Financial Economics, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
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