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Geospatial Techniques and Methods for Sustainability in Agricultural Management
The role of high resolution geospatial techniques is increasingly recognized as key for managing inputs and making technical decisions in agriculture...
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Identification of coconut palm trees using single shot detector deep learning model
Coconut palm tree plantation, monitoring and management in tropical countries is vital to improving exports, domestic food use and the economy....
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Digital twins in urban informatics
Urban informatics appears to be a suitable area for the application of digital twins. Definitions of the term share some characteristics, but these...
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Integrating multiple electromagnetic data to map spatiotemporal variability of soil salinity in Kairouan region, Central Tunisia
Soil salinization is a major problem affecting soils and threatening agricultural sustainability in arid and semi-arid regions, which makes it...
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Soil fertility assessment for optimal agricultural use using remote sensing and GIS technologies
An uneasy population increase requires expansion of the agricultural area. Egypt has a strategic direction in expanding agricultural areas, which...
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Concluding Thoughts
This concluding chapter offers a look back at six thoughts that were key to framing our rethink of map literacy. It then provides a look sideways at...
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Soil Quality Assessment: Integrated Study on Standard Scoring Functions and Geospatial Approach
Assessment of soil quality indices is highly influential in sustainable agriculture. A myriad of methods is currently used to select the most...
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Introducing Health Geography
This introductory section summarizes the key characteristics of health and medical geography. It also illustrates how these characteristics have...
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Spatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Spatial data mining and knowledge discovery refer to the theories, methods and techniques for extracting implicit, previously unknown knowledge and...
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Introduction: Framing the Spaces of Territorialisation in Latin America—A Complex Labour of Herding Cats
This chapter introduces a collection of original geographical research on territorial processes in diverse settings throughout Latin America. Most of...
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Spatial and Temporal Variability of Soil Moisture, Its Measurement and Methods for Analysis: A Review
The review article here presents a detailed study of the effects of the measurement scale on temporal and spatial soil moisture analysis. The...
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Spatial Analysis in Geomatics
For processing geodata there are many different approaches of which all of them require their own specific input data and parameters to generate an...
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A Guide to the Medical Geology Literature
Medical geology (geology and health) is one of the most diverse, multidisciplinary scientific fields having practitioners from the geosciences,...
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Variability of Energy Resources at a Diverse Scale
Analysing and characterizing the swing in solar insolation across space and time require a technique known as spatio-temporal and hyper-temporal...
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Sequential Gaussian Simulation as a Promising Tool in Travel Demand Modeling
The aim of this article is to propose an alternative approach to disaggregate data using sequential Gaussian simulation, considering the difficulty...
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Geospatial Operations of Discrete Global Grid Systems—a Comparison with Traditional GIS
As the foundation of the next-generation Digital Earth, Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) have demonstrated both theoretical and practical...
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Dynamics of groundwater recharge near a semi-arid Mediterranean intermittent stream under wet and normal climate conditions
In arid and semi-arid stream-dominated systems, the temporal variability in groundwater recharge has not been widely addressed. Various questions...
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Application of Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques in Assessment of Salt Affected Soils for Management in Large Scale Soil Survey
Salt-affected soils are most common land degradation processes in arid and semi-arid regions, where evaporation exceeds precipitation. Under such...
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Baseline determination, pollution source and ecological risk of heavy metals in surface sediments of the Amu Darya Basin, Central Asia
Central Asia (CA) is one of the most fragile regions worldwide owing to arid climate and accumulated human activities, and is a global hotspot due to...
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Discussion and Novel Opportunities
The last chapter builds on the previous 6 chapters, which are more technical, to propose a reflection of what it means for the geomorphologist to...