Sustainable Development Perspectives in Earth Observation offers expert insight into the latest progress made in terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric processes, and their interlinkage in the face of changing climate using Earth observation. By addressing the use of advanced datasets, measurement techniques, modeling approaches, analytical protocols, and interpretation methods, the editors have guided the book towards key advances in understanding the evolving dynamics of ecosystems, including coasts, exposure to extreme weather events, and advances in understanding of ocean-atmosphere interactions. Those working towards sustainability through Earth observation will find that this text is a valuable resource for understanding the changing dynamics of the environment in a warming world.
Table of Contents
1. Inter-linkage among Climate, Terrestrial and Marine systems: Sustainable Development Perspectives
Mukunda Dev Behera, Swadhin Kumar Behera, Saroj Kanta Barik, Mrutyunjaya Mohapatra and Trilochan Mohapatra
Section A
Agriculture, Water and Climate Change
2. Geospatial Applications for Crop Assessment: Sustainable Development Perspective
V M Chowdary
3. Agroforestry for Sustainable livelihood: Role of Geo-informatics, ICT and Citizen Science
Raj Kumar Singh
4. Sustaining Floriculture and Floral Fragrance in a Changing Climate
Saroj Kanta Barik
5. Crop Insurance using Geo-information: a Strategy for Climate Change mitigation
Bikash Ranjan Parida
6. Terrestrial water cycle in future climate
Pramit Kumar Deb Burman
7. Impacts of Ocean-Atmospheric phenomena on Hydro-climatic extremes
Sarmistha Singh
8. Coastal Water Resources Management and Geospatial Technology
Sabyasachi Swain
9. Dam Break analysis and Geo-informatics Techniques
Ratnakar Swain
Section B
Forest and land cover Systems and Climate Change
10. Biodiversity, Climate Change and Remote Sensing: Adaptation and Mitigation Prospective
Mukunda Dev Behera
11. Linking Meteorological and Phenological Observations in Forests
Jaya Prakash
12. Earth Observation for Monitoring of Shifting Cultivation
Pulakesh Das
13. Role of phenology as discriminant in vegetation type mapping
Mukunda Dev Behera
14. Satellite-based Monitoring of Agriculture Resilience Succeeding Watershed Development
Abigith baby
15. Assessment of Agroforestry Land Use Systems for Sustainable Agriculture Development: A Geospatial Perspective using AI
Shivam Trivedi
16. Earth Observation based Mapping and Site Suitability analysis of Coffee Agro-Ecosystem in the face of Climate Change
R Subramoniam
17. Spatio-Temporal Assessment of Surface Dynamics of High-Altitude Wetlands Using Earth-Observation Datasets
Mukunda Dev Behera
Section C
Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics and Climate Change Sea Level Change in Asia
18. The Antarctic climate system: recent changes and their drivers
Pranab Deb
19. Sea Level Change in Asia
Dhrubajyoti Samanta
20. An overview of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Global warming interlink
Prabir K. Patra
21. Advances in Earth Observation Satellites for Global Air Quality Monitoring
Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath
22. Assessment of Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations using GIS
Ram Avtar
23. Forecasting Carbon Dioxide emission using Machine Learning
Mukunda Dev Behera and Pringale Kumar Das
24. Role of ocean and Climate in Terrestrial ecosystems
Swadhin Kumar Behera
25. Significant Rise in Aerosol Concentration in Past Two Decades over an Industrial Area
Mukunda Dev Behera
Authors
Mukunda Behera Associate Professor, Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Dr. Mukunda Dev Behera is an associate Professor in the Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Prior to this, he has worked for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Dr. Behera has made outstanding contributions to the fields of forest remote sensing, land and water resource management, and ecological climatology by theorizing, modeling, and conducting innovative experiments and field-based measurements with satellite remote sensing. He has developed innovative protocols and new methods for estimating a range of vegetation photosynthetic/ structural variables including leaf area index, canopy height, aboveground biomass and productivity using suite of satellite data products and modeling. He has over 110 peer-reviewed journal publications, and has co-edited several books. He serves the editorial boards of several reputed environmental journals and contributed to IPCC AR-6 of WG-II. Swadhin K Behera Director, Applications Laboratory, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science Technology (JAMSTEC), Natsushimacho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.. Dr. Swadhin K. Behera is a distinguished scientist in climate variability and predictability studies. He has been working at JAMSTEC for over 20 years and is significantly involved in the climate analyses, prediction and application research with a particular emphasis on the role of oceans in tropical and extratropical climate variations. Using Earth Observation data and numerical modelling, Dr Behera studies interannual variability and coastal circulation in East Asia. He currently heads the Application Laboratory and also serves as an adjunct Professor in the University of Tokyo. He has published over 150 articles in highly cited international journals and has edited several books including "Tropical and extratropical air-sea interactions� (Elsevier). Saroj Kanta Barik Director, CSIR- National Botanical Research Institute, Pratap Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Dr. Saroj Kanta Barik is Director of the CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. Before joining CSIR, he was Head of the Department of Botany, and Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. For the past three decades, he has been active in diverse areas of research such as bio-prospection and conservation, ecological modeling, population and molecular ecology, and impact of climate change on species and ecosystems. His group has been successfulin using satellite data to predict the distributional range and impact of climate change on several forest species. He has published 110 research papers, 12 books and 40 technical and research reports. Fourteen students have been awarded Ph.D. degrees under his supervision. Mrutyunjaya Mohapatra Director General, Indian Meteorological Department, Mausam Bhawan, Lodhi Road, Delhi, India.. Dr. Mrutyunjaya Mohapatra is the Director General of Meteorology in the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Government of India. He is also the Permanent Representative of India and Member of the Executive Council for the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). He has significantly contributed to the improvement in cyclone warning services by IMD,and led upgradation of cyclone warning services in a holistic manner using Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). He has received appreciations from the WMO and Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences for providing timely and accurate tropical cyclone advisories to Myanmar during cyclone, Nargis in 2008. He has published more than 110 research papers and 15 Books. Trilochan Mohapatra Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) & Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (IARI), Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi, India. Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra is an Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, a government secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education, and the Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Dr. Mohapatra previously held the position of Director-cum-Vice Chancellor of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. Prior to this, he worked as the Director of National Rice Research Institute (formerly CRRI), India. He has worked at the National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, IARI, New Delhi as a researcher and teacher for about 20 years. He is a scientist of global specializing in the area of molecular genetics and genomics. Dr. Mohapatra has over 145 research papers in national and international journals of repute and several book chapters.
