Geospatial Challenges in the 21st Century
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Beschreibung
This book focuses on 21st century geospatial technologies (GT). It highlights their broad range of capabilities and their essential role in effectively addressing and resolving critical everyday issues, such as environment, sustainability, climate change, urban planning, economy, culture and geopolitics.
Featuring chapters written by leading international scientists, it discusses the application of GT tools and demonstrates that the problems requiring such tools transcend national boundaries, cultures, political systems and scientific backgrounds on a global scale. In addition, it enhances readers’ spatial understanding of, and geographical reasoning in connection with, societal issues.
The book will appeal to scientists, teachers and students of geography, the earth sciences and related areas, as well as decision-makers interested in the application and capabilities of geospatial technologies and new, spatial methods for addressing important issues.
Enhances readers’ spatial understanding of, and geographical reasoning in connection with, current societal issues Combines traditional spatial approaches and new technological advances (information and communications technology (ICT)) to address topical issues Covers the whole spectrum of state-of-the-art geospatial technologies and their concrete applications to current problems
Autor*in
Kostis Koutsopoulos
Themen in »Geospatial Challenges in the 21st Century«
Geospatial Technologies Geoinformation Information and Communications Technology (ICT) 21st Century Societal Issues Spatial Planning Technologies in Geography Education Geovisualization Geospatial approaches Geospatial science guide