T.S. Chouhan
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‘Desertification’’ means land degradation in arid, semiarid, and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities. Combat Desertification advocates for the importance of inclusive cooperation to restore and rehabilitate degraded land and contribute towards achieving the overall Sustainable Development Goals. Land has been an overlooked component in sustainable development for years. Now, we ...
Space technologies can play important roles in the reduction of disasters. The use of such technologies can be particularly useful in the risk assessment, mitigation and preparedness phases of disaster management. Space technologies are also vital to the early warning and management of the effects of the disaster. It plays a great role in disaster management in such areas as flooding, cyclones, drought, desertification, earthquake and tsunami. Space technology is ...
Remote sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) offers an abundant opportunity to monitor and manage natural resources at multi-temporal, multi-spectral and multi-spatial resolution. This system is based on new tools and sources of information provided by modern technologies. These include Remote Sensing (RS), Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) are such technologies that are much more reliable, precise and efficient ...
The sustainable development of a country largely depends on judicious exploration and optimum utilisation of its various natural resources. The conventional and time proven techniques are being utilised since ages to achieve this goal but, the results have not been encouraging. The remote sensing techniques, which provide an integrated data base, has been successfully employed for better understanding the numerous operational natural processes and their products, ...
Desertification" is defined as land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various and human activities. It is occuring in all regions of the world. More than 25% of the earth's land surface is threatened by desertification. Over 900 million people in more than 100 countries are at risk. Ninety of these countries are in the developing world. In the past, the problem was seen as strictly a regional one, primarily affecting the ...
Rajasthan is a land of history and romance. It has always played a pivotal role in boosting the arts and culture of India and is deservedly a tourists' paradise of India. The echo of the changing swords and the beat of war drums is ever present, but the thunks of the sculptor's chisel, the rustle of a painter's brush, the melody of a musicein's notes and the jingle of the dancer's anklets have also been heard here. Rajasthanis are a handsome people with colourful ...