Overview
- Uses remote sensing techniques to study mountain environments in Africa
- Examines the role climate change is playing within mountain systems
- Raises awareness about mountain ecosystem management and sustainability to inform policy
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited volume focuses on the use of remote sensing techniques to assess and monitor mountainous ecosystems in Africa, with a focus on tracking changes related to climate change and human activity. The book is timely, as the interaction of mountain environmental dynamics with conservation and sustainability is an under-researched issue. The chapters in this volume use remotely sensed data to study a variety of topics related to mountains and their ecosystems, including but not limited to vegetation, energy systems, environmental hazards, ecosystem services, diseases, climatic shifts, geological formations and geomorphological dynamics. The ability to monitor, assess and analyze mountainous regions is aided by the availability of remote sensing products such as optical and microwave sensors and low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The works presented here push the frontier of knowledge on mountain studies and will help shape local, national and global assessments and policies, including efforts toward the achievement of the African Agenda 2063. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in remote sensing, geography, ecology and sustainability, as well as to government organizations and conservation specialists.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Samuel Adelabu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Prof. Abel Ramoelo is the Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies, and Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria. He is also a research fellow at Department of Geography at the University of the Free State, South Africa
Dr. Adeyemi Olusola is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Geography, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa and Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Dr. Efosa Adagbasa is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Remote Sensing of African Mountains
Book Subtitle: Geospatial Tools Toward Sustainability
Editors: Samuel Adelabu, Abel Ramoelo, Adeyemi Olusola, Efosa Adagbasa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04855-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04854-8Published: 31 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04857-9Published: 01 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04855-5Published: 30 August 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 247
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 78 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physical Geography, Computer Applications, Geography, general, Sustainable Development, Ecosystems