Introduction to Challenges and Future Directions in Remote Sensing and GIScience

Abstract

This book provides an overview of remote sensing and GIScience (GIS) and their challenges and future directions. Modern technology like remote sensing and GIS with timely and accurate information helps to monitor and analyze a wide range of phenomena like water, vegetation, land, and human activities. Inter-disciplinary studies are also noticed in human–environment interaction between stakeholders and decision makers for real world applications. Remote sensing data products and their limitations are also discussed in the book. To overcome this situation, artificial intelligence (AI), along with cloud computing and big data analytics, is the need of the hour. Decision support system based on the AI in remote sensing and GIS is key to the implementation of decision-making and planning in a sustainable manner. The book is segregated into 5 parts spreading over 15 chapters. Part I discusses the challenges and future direction of remote sensing and GIS in various fields. Chapters 2–5 in the second part are devoted to challenges in sustainable natural resources management. Various applications of remote sensing and GIS in urban growth management are presented in Chapters 6–9 of Part III. In Part IV, challenges and future directions in GIS have been discuss in Chapters 10–14 through GIS modeling. Part V devoted to one chapter deals with the GIS revolution in science and society.