8 Best Books on Environmental Geomatics

“Modelling Environmental Dynamics: Advances in Geomatic Solutions (Environmental Science and Engineering)” Book Review: This book is designed for engineering students and provides comprehensive explanations on advancements in geomatic simulations for environmental dynamics. Topics covered include land use and its change dynamics, tropical deforestation modeling, evaluation of modeling methods, prospective modeling of environmental dynamics, GIS-supported modeling, participatory modeling, and retrospective gromatic landscape modeling. Additionally, the book delves into simulating greenhouse growth in urban zoning on the coast of Granda, modeling intra-urban dynamics, creation and evaluation of development scenarios for metropolitan patterns, and detailed information on urban land use in the Madrid region.

“Elementary Surveying: An Introduction to Geomatics” Review: This book is specifically designed for engineering students and offers in-depth coverage of surveying concepts, including the history of surveying, specialized types of surveys, units, significant figures, field notes, theory of error observations, direct/indirect observations, types of errors, leveling methods and equipment, field procedures and computations, distance measurements, electronic measurement errors, angles, azimuths, bearings, magnetic declination, traverse computations, coordinate geometry, area calculations, global navigation satellite systems, adjustment by least squares, mapping and mapping surveys, control survey, geodetic reduction, photogrammetry, geographic information systems, and problem questions with detailed explanations.

“Monitoring and Modeling of Global Changes: A Geomatics Perspective (Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry)” Book Review: This book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students and focuses on monitoring and modeling of land use changes, analysis of urban dynamics, long-term change dynamics, influence of political regime, mapping of environmental changes, landscape ecological mapping, grassland productivity, environmental modeling, risk assessment including glaciological study, mapping coastal erosion, modeling shallow landslides, and integrated model for assessing CO2 emissions. The book also covers earth observation data processing, digital processing of SAR data and images, providing a comprehensive overview of these topics.

“Basics of Geomatics” Book Review: This book is targeted towards students interested in exploring the world we live in. It starts with fundamental information on geomatics, cartography, photography, and remote sensing. The book also delves into the concepts of informatics, techniques of image acquisition, satellite positioning systems worldwide, digital image processing, and geographical information systems. Additionally, the book provides detailed information on land use and its cover classification systems, making it a comprehensive resource for understanding these concepts in detail.

“Geomatics Engineering: A Practical Guide to Project Design” Book Review: This book is specifically designed for students with engineering backgrounds, providing comprehensive guidance on the project design process, including information gathering, design approaches, scheduling, and cost estimation. It also covers the standards and specifications of equipment, as well as professional and ethical responsibilities. In addition, this book delves into policy, social, and environmental issues with relevant examples. It further includes information on boundary survey and control survey, topographic survey, project control, map scale, contour interval, and the application of GIS. Estimating project costs and writing geomatics proposals are also covered. Each chapter concludes with exercise questions and solutions for practice.

“Engineering Graduates for Industry: University College London Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering Department – Mini Case Study” Book Review: This book is designed for engineering students and covers a range of relevant topics. It starts by providing an introduction to the subject matter, followed by a comprehensive guide to research methodology which includes details on research questions, data collection, and data analysis. The book also delves into the needs of the industry in a detailed manner. Case studies are presented to help students understand how these principles apply in real-world situations. Additionally, the book includes experience-led components of an engineering degree. Detailed case study analysis is also provided to give students a better understanding of the topic. The book concludes with recommendations to help students apply their newfound knowledge.

“Geomatics in Tsunami” Book Review: This book is specifically designed for engineering students, providing a comprehensive overview of various aspects related to tsunamis. It begins by covering the history of tsunamis and delves into the role of oscillation of first and second class, as well as the applications of photogrammetry in assessing tsunami damage. The book also offers detailed information on the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, including its causes, effects, and the specific impacts it had on various regions. It explores the earthquake and tsunami effects on the Andaman Islands, the damage and mapping of affected areas along the Nellore coast, as well as the impacts on the Chennai, Pondicherry-Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, and Kanyakumari coastlines. Additionally, the book addresses the physico-chemical perturbations caused by tsunamis on coastal systems, coastal responses in Car Nicobar Island, water quality changes, and the perspectives of citizens and NGOs involved in tsunami relief and rehabilitation efforts. Furthermore, it covers the responses and actions taken by Tamil Nadu in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster, as well as a case study on a landslide-triggered tsunami in Norway.

“Precision Surveying: The Principles and Geomatics Practice” Book Review: This book is specifically designed for students with engineering and geoscience backgrounds, covering precision surveys and properties, as well as techniques. It includes information on observables, measuring instruments, and theory of observation errors. The book further provides standards and specifications for precision surveys and analyzes and evaluates angle measurement systems, distance measurement systems, elevation and coordinate difference measurement systems, network design and solution approach, angular measurement, and traverse measurement under survey design and analysis. It also covers concepts of three-dimensional coordinating systems, including coordinate systems, navigation satellite systems, and laser systems. Additionally, this book provides comprehensive information on deformation monitoring and analysis of geodetic techniques, high-definition survey, remote sensing techniques, deformation monitoring, and analysis of geotechnical and structural techniques, mining survey, tunneling survey, and precision alignment surveys, including direct laser alignment techniques, conventional survey techniques, optical-tooling techniques, metrology, alignment by polar measurement, and main sources of error in alignment surveys.