Global Changes and Natural Disaster Management ― Geo-information Technologies

This book is a collection of carefully selected, edited and peer reviewed contributions resulting from the 7th GiT4NDM- 5th EOGC 2015. The book aims to transfer ideas from academicians to professionals, politicians, and decision makers. Thus, the main audience can be found at academic and research institutes, NGOs, etc. The book is designed to advance research and development as well as to encourage innovative applications of Geomatics technologies in global change studies, and to specifically address the international aspects of the coupled social, land and climate systems in global change studies using advanced geospatial tools, spatiotemporal models, and earth observation systems. 

He obtained his Bachelor (1998), Master (2000), and PhD in 2004 from Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has supervised 14 PhD and MSc students internationally. He is also pursuing his second PhD in geography and environmental management (Applied LiDAR and Mobile Laser Scanning Systems) at the University of Waterloo. He is author/co-author of more than 150 publications in refereed journals, conference proceedings and books. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International Geoinformatics Research and Development Journal (IGRDJ); and the founder of the International Association of Geo-information and Communication Technologies (GeoICT) Ontario, as well as International Conference on Geo-information Technologies for Natural Disaster Management (GiT4NDM).