Jane Southworth – författare

Remote Sensing, Big Data, and GeoAI: Exploring Applications with Geospatial Insights is an in-depth analysis of the transformative power of AI and Big Data in remote sensing. This book provides readers with the knowledge and tools to utilize these technologies to enhance decision-making and analysis. Starting from fundamental concepts, it progresses to advanced applications, offering accessible explanations and real-world examples to bridge the gap between theory and practice. The book uses a structured format to balance theoretical knowledge with immersive case studies, giving readers a deeper understanding of practical implications.It also covers ethical and legal considerations, making it an invaluable resource for researchers, professionals, and students keen on using AI and Big Data techniques in remote sensing to solve complex geospatial challenges.Provides a full review of the development of Big Data and AI for remote sensing technologies, elucidating on how we have begun to incorporate data and methods, and highlighting potential areas of growthApproaches the content from a practical but immersive angle, allowing readers to understand common data and methodological approaches with real world examplesIncludes chapters on emerging topics of consideration, including the ethics/legality of using AI in remote sensing and how we teach such complex topics to students

Evidence shows that global climate change is occurring. Research and debate continue on the role of increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases in influencing climate change. Many sectors are, or will be, influenced by changing climate and climate variability, including increasing global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and increased frequency of unusual weather events. Agriculture and the world's supply of food and fibre are particularly vulnerable to such climate change. This text provides an integrated assessment of global climate change's impact on agriculture at the farm level, in the context of farm level adaptation decisions. Ten agricultural areas in the Upper Midwest region - the heart of the United States' corn belt - were subjected to climate change and changing climate variability scenarios through simulations of future climate using results from general circulation models. Crop growth models, calibrated to the study sites, were used to simulate yields under varying climate conditions.Farm level production and economic analyses were performed to determine what adaptation strategies might be best utilized to maintain production and profitability for producers under conditions of global climate change and changing climate variability. Similar integrated analyses from Australia and Argentina provide comparisons from different regions. The robust integrated systems methodology for assessing impacts and adaptation opportunities in several different major agricultural regions provides the reader with an example for similar endeavours. Also discussed are guidelines and useful analytical options for input suppliers, agricultural researchers, and agricultural producers to enable risk averting strategies and adaptations as global climate change plays out.

The 21st century has seen the beginnings of a great restoration effort towards the world’s forests, accompanied by the emergence of an increasing literature on reforestation, regeneration and regrowth of forest cover. Yet to date, there is no volume which synthesises current knowledge on the extent, trends, patterns and drivers of reforestation.This edited volume draws together research from leading researchers to explore reforestation and forest regrowth across the world, from multiple dimensions – including ecosystem services, protected areas, social institutions, economic transitions, remediation of environmental problems, conservation and land abandonment – and at different scales.Detailing the methods and analyses used from across a wide range of disciplines, and incorporating research from North, South and Central America, Africa, Asia and Europe, this groundbreaking book provides a global overview of current trends, explores their underlying causes and proposes future forest trajectories. The first of its kind, the book will provide an invaluable reference for researchers and students involved in interdisciplinary research and working on issues relevant to the biophysical, geographic, socioeconomic and institutional processes associated with reforestation.

Effects of Climate Change and Viarability on the Agricultural Production Systems provides an integrated assessment of global climate change's impact on agriculture at the farm level, in the context of farm level adaptation decisions.