Mapping and Forecasting Land Use: The Present and Future of Planning

Mapping and Forecasting Land Use: The Present and Future of Planning is a comprehensive reference on the use of technologies to map land use, focusing on GIS and remote sensing applications and methodologies for land use monitoring. This book addresses transversal topics such as urbanisation, biodiversity loss, climate change, ecosystem services and participatory planning, with the pros and cons of various aerial technologies in mapping and land use. It follows a multidisciplinary approach and provides opinions and evidence from leading researchers working in academic institutions across the globe. The book's second half moves from theory and research advancement into case studies, compiling global examples to provide real-world context and evidence of the techniques and applications.

Mapping and Forecasting Land Use is a valuable guide for graduates, academics and researchers in the fields of geography, geographic information science and land use science who want to effectively apply GIS and remote sensing capabilities to mapping or wider land studies. Researchers in geosciences, environmental science and agriculture will also find this of value in utilising 21st-century technologies in their field.

Author: Paulo Pereira
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 08/22/2022
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780323909471

About the Author
Pereira, Paulo: - Prof. Pereira holds a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Barcelona. He has previous experience working on spatial modelling of environmental variables and applying these results to sustainable landscape planning. Prof. Pereira was awarded the outstanding young scientist award from the Soil System Sciences Division (European Geoscience Union) and he is an Editor and has been Guest Editor of various prestigious journals in the field of environment and soil science (Land Degradation and Development, Science of the Total Environment, Geoderma, Catena and Journal of Soils and Sediments).Gomes, Eduardo: - Eduardo Gomes has a PhD in Geography from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a second PhD in Geographic Information Science from the University of Lisbon (joint-supervision program). His latest research has focused on the design of modeling and collaborative simulations applied to analyze land use and land use cover changes using different methods. Eduardo Gomes has published 11 articles (8 as the first author) and has been an invited researcher to prestigious international institutions such as the Centre for Urban Research, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia), Geography Section, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen (Denmark), and Future Cities Laboratory, ETH Centre, (Singapore). Eduardo Gomes has participated in scientific conferences as an invited speaker, and he was a member of the organizing committee of scientific conferences.Rocha, Jorge: - Jorge Rocha holds a BSc in Geography and Regional Planning (1996), MSc in Geographic Information Systems (2003) and in Spatial Planning (2013), and a PhD in Geographic Information Science (2012). Currently he is an Assistant Professor of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, and effective researcher of the Centre of Geographical Studies, both at the University of Lisbon (Portugal), where he is also co-coordinator of the Laboratory for Remote Sensing, Geographical Analysis and Modelling (GEOMODLAB). His fields of expertise are geosimulation and geocomputation involving artificial intelligence (deep learning, agent-based models, etc.) and cellular automata and programming (r and python) applied to spatial problems. Jorge's works are quite diverse, focusing mainly on urban morphology, remote sensing, land use land cover, health geography, smart cities, and big data.

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