Blue-Green Land Management and Smart Ecosystem Services

Dr. Praveen Kumar Rai is an associate professor and the head of Department of Geography, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Language University, Lucknow, India. He also served as an assistant professor in the Amity Institute of Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Amity University, Noida, and Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience in the field of remote sensing and GIS. He completed his Ph.D. in remote sensing form the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India. His research interests include remote sensing, GIS, glaciology, health and disease modelling, disaster management and water resource management, among others. He has published 8 books and more than 80 research papers in international and national journals. He also serves as an editorial board member of many international journals.Dr. Shalini Rai (Ph.D. in microbiology) is an assistant professor (temp.) in the Department of Microbiology, Dr. Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University, India. She obtained her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in microbiology from Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, India. Dr. Rai has more than 8 years of teaching and research experiences. She has engaged in various research activities on soil and agriculture microbiology, plant-microbe interactions, plant disease management, enzymology, biocontrol, molecular biology, and microbial diagnostics. She has published several book chapters, review articles, and research papers in prominent international journals. She has published various significant research paper in the national and national journals.

• Chapter 1. Geo spatial Approach; Identification of Soil Erosional Hazards Zone & Prioritizations of Gomukhi Watershed at Tamilnadu State, India; Through RUSLE Model.- Chapter 2. Efficient water resource management to enhance rice crop productivity and farm income under climate variability and change.- Chapter 3. Climate Resilient Agriculture Need of Future Food Production System and Green Resource Management.- Chapter 4. Impact of Climate Change on Study on Blue Resource and Hydrology.- Chapter 5. Management of acid soils for sustainable crop production under a changing climate.- Chapter 6. Exploring the Health Consequences of Air Pollution: A Comprehensive Systematic Review.- Chapter 7. Regional-Level Association of Anthropogenic Forcing Factors and Evapotranspiration Dynamics Over the Indian Agro-Ecosystem.- Chapter 8. Synergetic use of satellite imagery and dem for identification of hydrogeomorphic landforms.- Chapter 9. A Review on the Benefits and Environmental Risks of Using Nanopesticides in Agricultural Fields.- Chapter 10. Advanced Techniques for Paddy Acreage Mapping in Kurukshetra District, Haryana: A Comparative Analysis of Rule-Based and Random Forest Models Using Sentinel-1 SAR Data.- Chapter 11. A Remote Sensing GIS Based Evaluation of Urban Expansion and Land Use Land/Cover Change – A Case study of Ghaziabad District, India.- Chapter 12. Mango Orchard Inventory and Soil Suitability Analysis Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques in Kunda Tehsil, Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh.- Chapter 13. Prediction of Land use changes based on Land Change Modeler (LCM) using remote sensing: A case study of Varanasi City (U.P.), India.- Chapter 14. Integrating Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Crop Classification in Latur Using Google Earth Engine and Random Forest.- Chapter 15. Green Fuel Production from Waste: An Approach towards Environmental Cleanness and Smart Ecosystem Services.- Chapter 16. Satellite Data Based Study of Surge Characterization of Klutlan and Fisher Glaciers, St. Elias Mountains, North America.