1st Edition
Geospatial Technologies for Land Degradation Assessment and Management
1 An Introduction to Geospatial Technology. 2 Passive Remote Sensing. 3 Active Remote Sensing. 4 Digital Image Processing. 5 An Introduction to Land Degradation. 6 Water Erosion. 7 Wind Erosion. 8 Soil Salinization and Alkalinization. 9 Soil Acidification. 10 Waterlogging. 11 Land Degradation due to Mining, Aquaculture, and Shifting Cultivation. 12 Drought. 13 Land Degradation Information Systems.
Biography
Dr Ravi Shankar Dwivedi is a consultant and guest faculty at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, India. He is an expert Land resources management: Soil resources inventory, mapping and monitoring land degradation/ desertification, wastelands and land use/ land cover using a variety of remote sensing data. He has a long experience also in Watershed management- Generation of inputs especially soil resources, land capability and land irrigability maps, surface water bodies maps and drainage maps ; integration of these maps with hydrogeoplogical maps and development of action plan, monitoring and impact assessment using multi-temporal satellite and ancillary data.He holds Awards from Indian Society of Remote Sensing for outstanding contribution in the field of remote sensing and Doreen Mashler Team Award for outstanding contribution to integrated watershed management for sustainable development (as a member of ICRISAT team).
