About this book
This book collates traditional and modern applications of remote sensing in aquatic ecosystem monitoring. It covers conventional assessment methods like sampling, surveying, macroinvertebrates, and chlorophyll estimation for aquatic ecosystem health assessment. Advanced remote sensing technology provides timely spectral information for quantitative and qualitative assessment of water quality, shoreline changes, coral bleaching, and vegetation monitoring. The book covers different types of aquatic ecosystems like wetlands, rivers, lakes, saline, and the brackish lake. It also:
- Reviews the latest applications of remote sensing in the monitoring and assessment of aquatic ecosystems
- Includes traditional methods like cartography, sampling, surveying, phytoplankton assessment, river interlinking, and chlorophyll estimation
- Discusses the application of multi-source data and machine learning in monitoring aquatic ecosystems
- Discusses aquatic ecosystem management, services, threats, and sustainability
- Explores challenges, opportunities, and prospects of future Earth observation applications for aquatic ecosystem monitoring
The book discusses space-borne, airborne, and drone geospatial data. The parts broadly cover aquatic ecosystem monitoring, vegetation management, advanced modeling practices, and challenges. It is meant for scientists, professionals, and policymakers working in environmental sciences, remote sensing, and geology.
Contents
Part I: General
1. Introduction – Editorial Message / Prem C. Pandey, Prashant K Srivastava and Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava
Part II: Conventional Aquatic Ecosystems Monitoring
2. Freshwater Ecosystem Monitoring: Conventional Assessment of Macroinvertebrates / Catherine M. Yule and Darshanaa Chellaiah
3. Evaluating Aquatic Ecosystem Health in the Indian River Linking Program: Diatoms and Macroinvertebrates as Biomonitoring Tools / Jyoti Verma, Prateek Srivastava, Rakesh Kumar Dwivedi and Anuradha Yadav
4. Multiproxy (Calcareous Nannofossil, Benthic Foraminiferal, and Total Organic Carbon) Records from the Eastern Arabian Sea: Implications for Monsoon-Induced Nutrients and Primary Productivity Changes during the Holocene / Abha Singh, Prem Raj Uddandam, Abhijit Mazumder, and MC Manoj
Part III: Advanced Aquatic Ecosystems Monitoring
5. Aquatic Ecosystems Monitoring with Remote Sensing Perspective / Soudani Leila, Arabi Zohra, Bouacha Mohamed Islem, Safa Omar and Azzaoui Mohamed Essalah
6. Monitoring of Water Quality of Asia’s Largest Brackish Water System, Chilika Lagoon / Pradipta R. Mudulia and Prasannajit Acharya
7. Stream Channel Dynamics over Alluvial Fan Systems: An Overview / Manish Pandey and Pinkey Bisht
8. Mapping Shoreline Changes in Two River Deltas of Greece Exploiting Geoinformation technologies / George P. Petropoulos, Spyridon E. Detsikas and Ioanna Tzanavari
Part IV: Aquatic Vegetation Monitoring and Assessment
9. Application of Remote Sensing for Monitoring Aquatic Vegetation: A Case Study of Egyptian Coastal Wetlands Using MODIS/Terra Data / Heba Bedair, Asmaa M. El-Makawy, Haidy Nasser and Marwa Waseem A. Halmy
10. Monitoring Coastal Chlorophyll-a Concentration in the Coast of North Africa Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning / Mubaraka S. Alghariani, Nezha Mejjad, Ehab M. Sagar and Heba Bedair
11. Aquatic Vegetation Species Identification and Mapping Using Multisource Data-Review / Smrutisikha Mohanty, Prem C. Pandey and Prashant K. Srivastava
12. Investigation of Seasonal Variability of Chlorophyll-a in the Arabian Sea / Suchita Pandey, Suneet Dwivedi and Sudhir Kumar Singh
Part V: Aquatic Ecosystem Management, Services, Threats, and Sustainability
13. Management of Aquatic Ecosystems and Aquatic Vegetation for Environmental Sustainability / Shilky, Subhashree Patra, Purabi Saikia and Amit Kumar
14. Potential Fishing Zones Estimation along the Coast of India Using Geospatial Technology / Md. Wasim, Smrutisikha Mohanty, Prem C. Pandey and Arvind Chandra Pandey
15. Impact of Climate Change and Land Use Land Cover Dynamics on Wetland Ecosystem in Punjab Using Geospatial Technology / Mohit Arora, Sashikanta Sahoo, Isha Swati and Parag Roy
16. Coral Reefs Threat Assessment and Comparative Analysis of Neil and Agatti Island, India, Using Multispectral Approach / Md. Wasim, Smrutisikha Mohanty, Prem C. Pandey, Basheer Ahammed KK, Arvind Chandra Pandey
17. Plastic pollution is a Serious Menace to Ecosystem Health with Special Reference to Aquatic Ecosystems and its Associated Challenges, Opportunities, and Mitigations / Anannya Dahiya, Dasputre Yash Sanjay Kumar, Suthar Shubham Kumar, Ashutosh K Pandey and Chongtham Allayley Devi
Part VI: Challenges and Future Opportunities in Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring
18. Challenges and Future Implications in Monitoring and Assessment of Aquatic Ecosystems / Smrutisikha Mohanty, Prem C. Pandey, Prashant K. Srivastava and Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava
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Biography
Dr Prem Chandra Pandey is an Assistant Professor at the Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (Deemed to be University), Greater Noida, India. He was associated with Tel Aviv University as Research Scientist and with Banaras Hindu University as Post-Doctoral Scientist. Dr Pandey received his PhD degree from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, Association of Commonwealth Universities. Dr Pandey has been the recipient of several international and national awards, such as the Inspire, Malviya Gold medal, DST-SERB, UGC-MHRD, and Tel Aviv University fellowships. He is serving as editorial member for the journals, International (Taylor & Francis), Sustainable Development (IF- 12.5 Wiley), and is associated with Remote Sensing (MDPI) as topic editor. He has authored over 60 research articles and edited more than eight books and 25 book chapters.
Dr Prashant K. Srivastava is a faculty member at the Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University. He was previously affiliated with the Hydrological Sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a research scientist on the SMAP satellite soil moisture retrieval algorithm development, instrumentation, and simulation for various applications. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Prashant was the recipient of several awards, such as the NASA Fellowship, USA; University of Maryland Fellowship, USA; Commonwealth Fellowship, U.K. He has published over 140 research articles, seven books, and over 100 chapters.
Dr Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava is a Senior Lecturer, Geospatial Analysis, University of Sunshine, Australia. He teaches and coordinates spatial science courses, which include geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing and surveying courses that are part of the Geospatial Analysis Minor. He obtained his PhD degree in Geographical Sciences from The Australian National University, where he tested several spatial models for predicting fish species' distribution in the inland aquatic ecosystem. Dr. Srivastava has worked with different organizations, including the Australian Defence Force Academy, Bureau of Rural Sciences, The World Fish Centre, National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, and several locations at the Australian National University.
