Wetlands are recognized as one of the world’s most valuable natural resources. With the increasing world population, human demands on wetland resources for agricultural expansion and urban development continue to increase. In addition, global climate change has pronounced impacts on wetland ecosystems through alterations in hydrological regimes. To better manage and conserve wetland resources, ...

Space technology has made substantial contribution in all the three phases such as preparedness, prevention and relief phases of drought and flood disaster management. The Earth Observation satellites which include both geostationary and polar orbiting satellites provide comprehensive, synoptic and multi temporal coverage of large areas in real time and at frequent intervals and ‘thus’ have bec...

Land use suitability assessment is an important fundamental work in urban-rural planning. Be restricted by technology and means, qualitative analysis methods be wider used in evaluating land use suitability in most districts of China. This method can’t impersonally and Quantitatively indicate the difference in land use suitability, and make urban-rural planning more subjectively because the inf...

Soil Conservation Service (SCS) and overland flow models have been used for runoff modeling over major land mass of India. Remote sensing derived daily rainfall data (Climate Prediction Centre), high temporal NDVI data (SPOT VGT), DEM (GTOPO30) and soil texture maps were used as input for the runoff modeling. SCS model setup was done in GIS (Arc GIS) environment. In general the reported and mod...

EDITORIAL article Front. Earth Sci., 22 July 2022Sec. Geohazards and Georisks https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.964753