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The publication under discussion here, titled "Encyclopaedia of Research Methodology in Earth Sciences & Atmospheric Sciences" provides readers with an introductory overview of research methodologies in earth sciences and atmospheric sciences. Scientific method refers to the body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. It is based on gathering observable, empirical and ...
The 'Encyclopaedia of Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics' manages to address most of the prominent issues related to remote sensing, GIS, GPS and geoinformatics. It provides readers with a complete overview of the said subject with a completely new perspective. Remote sensing is the sciene of acquiring, processing and interpreting images that record the interaction between electromagnetic energy and matter. The term remote sensing implies the sensing of ...
Urban induced climate change has become the key global issue in the recent years. Urban land use and cover changes are the main driving force of such changes. This is a complex and difficult task, mainly due to the scarcity of observations and tedious computational requirements. The recognition in the 1990s that air pollution is a key global key issue as well as the lack of data available to investigate fundamental processes occurring in the troposphere led the ...