Geospatial Technologies Environmental and Climate Science Applications and Challenges

1. Spatiotemporal Assessment of Urban Growth Dynamics in the Hill City of Shimla, India, from 1991 to 2041 Using Machine Learning Algorithms
Shobhit Chaturvedi, Jayket Sachapara, and Dhruvesh Patel

2. Assessment of Land Use and Land Cover Change of Visakhapatnam Using CA-ANN
Prajakta Mali and Divya Balasaheb Mhalaskar

3. Urban Heat Island Phenomenon: Influences of Land Use/Land Cover Alterations
Tanisha Ameriya, Ojas Jain, and Rudransh Singh Palta

4. Spatiotemporal Variation and Trend Analysis of Surface Temperatures over Chennai City in India: A Geospatial Approach
Kajesh Gadekar and Aneesh Mathew

5. Assessment of Optimal Size of Urban Blue-Green Space Based on Cooling Effect as an Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategy: A Critical Review
Somendra Kumar, Vipasha Sharma, and Hakima Banoo

6. Advanced Geospatial Techniques and Remote Sensing Methods for Evaluating Carbon Capture and Storage: An In-Depth Review
Sandhya Kiran Garge, Agradeep Mohanta, Neha Nandkeolyar, Ramandeep Kuar Malhi, Shrishti Rajput, Kavi Oza, Usha Pandya, and Pankajkumar C. Prajapati

7. Understanding Indoor Air Pollution and Its Impact on Health Implications in Cold Regions of India: A Comprehensive Review
Hakima Banoo, Vipasha Sharma, and Somendra Kumar

8. Analysis and Prediction of PM2.5 Concentrations Over Indian Megacities Using Geospatial Techniques and Deep Learning Models
Jagabandhu Panda, Asmita Mukherjee, Ankan Sarkar, Gourav Kumar, and Animesh Choudhury

9. Leveraging Machine Learning and Geospatial Data for Air Quality Modeling Over the Indian Region
Sreedevan Harithasree, Imran Girach, Archisman Chakraborti, Aditya Vaishya, Manish Kumar, Rajarshi Tiwari, and Narendra Ojha

10. Investigation of Optical and Radiative Properties of Aerosol over Urban Cities of India
Ruchita Shah, Vishva Upadhyay, Kuldip Ajoliya, Rohit Srivastava, and Som Sharma

11. Characteristics, Sources, and Regional Origins of Aerosols: A Comprehensive Analysis
Preeti Tiwari, Sakshi Gupta, Manoj Kumar, and Sudhir Kumar Sharma

12. Hydrological Study of an Urban Region within the Indravati River Basin
Anurag Yadav, and Raj Mohan Singh

13. Advanced Geophysical Techniques for Seepage Detection in Dams: A Sustainability Approach
Dheeraj Sonkar, and Brijesh Kumar Yadav

14. Assessment of Geospatial and Multicriteria Decision Method to Evaluate Site Suitability for Rainwater Harvesting: A Case Study of Sri Sathya Sai District, Andhra Pradesh State, India
Anuja Tigga

15. Time Series Multispectral Satellite Data for Wheat Crop Mapping and Monitoring in Bathinda District, India
Varun Narayan Mishra, Maya Kumari, Baljit Singh, Sandeep Kumar Kaushik, and Rishabh Singh

16. Assessment of Phenological Dynamics in Tropical Deciduous Forests: A Case Study from Gir National Park, India
Dhruvi Sedha, Chandra Prakash Singh, Hitesh Solanki, and Jincy Rachel Mathew

17. Geospatial Approach on Landslide Hazards Zonation Mapping Using Analytic Hierarchy Process: A Study on Mandakini River Basin, Uttarakhand, India
Joy Ghosh

18. Toward an Adapted Spatial Fuzzy Logic-based Model Using a Transdisciplinary Approach: Case Study of Natural Resource-Based Conflict Management
Lawrence Ibeh, Priyadarshini Pattanaik, Gabriel Friday Ibeh, Noah Cheruiyot Mutai, and Benjamin Benson Sambiri

19. Assessment of Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health: Trapping the Potential of Geoinformatics for Human Sustainability
R. K. Saran, Leela Kaur, and Sudhir Kumar Singh

20. Geospatial Technologies for Climate Risk Assessment and Resilience in Hornbill Conservation
Ruchira Nigam, Asif Ahmad Siddiqui, Monowar Alam Khalid, and Chitra Singh

21. Spatial Technologies in Action: Climate Change Mitigation and Environmental Applications
Nongthombam Premananda Singh

22. Investigation of Climate Extremes in Jabalpur District of Madhya Pradesh: Trends and Future Implications
Pankaj Kumar Thakur, Dheeraj Mohan Gururani, Abhishek Agrawal, Snehil Dubey, Divyesh Varade, and Pushpanjali Kumari

Biography

Pradeep Kumar is a senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Manipal University Jaipur, India. He received his doctorate degree from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India. He has made significant contributions in the field of remote sensing, GIS, GPS, AI/ML, aerosols, environmental pollution, climate change, public health, agricultural crops production, and soil moisture and working in these areas, since last 13 years. He has published more than 45 peer-reviewed research articles in international/national journals with h/i10 index 18/29 and 5 book chapters in Taylor and Francis and other international publishers. He has also published more than 30 oral and posters presentations in various national/international conferences/workshops. He has served as a reviewer in various international/national journals. He served as lead topic editor of special issue entitled “Advances in remote sensing and GIS applied to earth observation and environmental monitoring” in “Frontiers of Remote Sensing” Journal. Guest associate editor of special issue “Environment and Climate: Role of Humans and Technologies (ECRHT)” in “Environmental Science and Pollution Research” Journal. Currently he is working as a lead editor in one Scopus Indexed in press book entitled “Geospatial Technologies: Environmental and Climate Science Applications & Challenges” that will be published by Taylor & Francis.

Rajeev Bhatla is an Indian monsoon expert and a Professor of Meteorology at Department of Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. His areas of interest are teleconnection and its linkage to the Indian monsoon, regional/global climate modeling, climate prediction, extreme weather events and many more. During his professional career of about 30 years, he gained extensive experience in academics, administration and research. Prof. Bhatla has supervised 22 Ph.D. students (12 -awarded, 10-pursuing) and published/accepted 140 research papers, and 27 book chapters in peer-reviewed International and National journals. He was also a Regular Associate of ICTP which comes under the umbrella of UNESCO and IAEA. Recently he conferred with Fellow of Indian Geophysical Union.

Sudhir Kumar Singh has expertise in geospatial technologies, climate, and land use change modelling, water resources. He has 211 publications with Google scholar citation 8959, i-index: 106, h-index: 55. Published 04 edited books. Recipient of many fellowships namely National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa, CSIR-JRF, UGC-JRF, G. Parthasarathi Fellowship and Best Teacher award, University of Allahabad, and Young Scientist Gold Medal. Enlisted in 2% Scientist in world ranking of Stanford, USA. Acting as Associate Editor in international journals [Arabian Journal Geosciences, Water Conservation and Engineering], editorial board member [Geology, Ecology and Landscapes, Applied Water Science], Guest Editor [Remote Sensing, Water, Physics Chemistry and Earth].

Arti Choudhary is currently associated with Department of Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She worked in Centre for Environment, Climate Change and Public Health at Utkal University Bhubaneswar Odisha, India. She received her PhD from the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India. She worked in Transport Planning and Environment Division, CSIR- Central Road Research Institute New Delhi, India. She has made significant contributions in the field of aerosols, environmental pollution, urban traffic emission modeling, climate change, remote sensing, public health and working in these areas since last 12 years. She has published more than 60 international/national peer-reviewed research articles/book chapters/conferences. She served as guest editors of special issues in Physics and Chemistry of the Earth parts A/B/C, Frontiers of Remote Sensing, Frontiers in Environmental Science, Environmental Science and Pollution Research Journals. She visited several countries for research purpose like USA, Japan, China and Nepal.