Satellite remote sensing data has significant potential use in analysis of natural hazards such as landslides. Relying on the recent advances in satellite remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) techniques, this paper aims to map landslide susceptibility over most of the globe using a GIS-based weighted linear combination method. First, six relevant landslide-controlling factors ...

To improve the assessment of sustainability situation of production forest management a research project has been designed and being implemented jointly by the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation “ITC, TROPENBOS International foundation, and the Indonesian Watershed Management Technology Center, in collaboration with Indonesian Eco-Labeling Institute and th...

To promote sustainable forest management of production forest and improve sustainability assessment of its management, a research project has been designed and being implemented jointly by the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation “ITC, TROPENBOS International foundation, and a number of local institutions in Indonesia. The project is aiming at “ Design and d...

Geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems and remote sensing have been increasingly used in public health settings since the 1990s, but application of these methods in humanitarian emergencies has been less documented. Recent areas of application of GIS methods in humanitarian emergencies include hazard, vulnerability, and risk assessments; rapid assessment and survey met...

Flood disaster is one of the natural disasters those have the highest occurrence frequency. Remote sensing plays an active and important role in the flood disaster management such as monitoring, evaluation, emergency response and so on. Affected by the characteristics of flood disaster, emergency response for flood disaster must be guaranteed by a high quality and speedy remote sensing data res...

The use of geospatial data and geographic information technologies in the study of health outcomes such as mortality, morbidity, disease and well-being is gradually gaining popularity due to its ability to examine inter-relationships across data collections. This chapter aims to describe the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) to examine distribution and trends f...

Water is one of the most important natural resources and a physiological necessity to humankind. Freshwater necessities for sustenance life. The use development water in sustainable manner essential modern age due regular increase crises. Remote sensing GIS techniques are powerful tools analyzing manipulating resource management data. technology provides suitable alternatives efficient large co...