Importance and application of GIS for environmental sustainability

1. Abdulla - Al Kafy
Urban Planner & Project Officer
ICLEI South Asia
Rajshahi City Corporation
M.Phil (Running ), Institute of Environment,
University of Rajshahi.
Bachelor of Urban & Regional Planning,
Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology
Local Pathway Fellow (2018-2019),
UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
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2. Importance and application of GIS for environmental sustainability
Environmental sustainability
• Responsible interaction with the environment to avoid depletion or
degradation of natural resources
• Ensure long-term environmental quality.
• helps to ensure the needs of today's population without threatening the
ability of future generations to meet their needs.
Environmental Sustainability in SDGs
SDG 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
SDG 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
SDG 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of ecosystems, etc.
SDG16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development
Important Issues for ensuring environmental sustainability
• air and water pollution,
• solid waste management,
• ecosystem management,
• maintenance of biodiversity, and
• the protection of natural resources, wildlife and endangered species.

3. 1. Environnemental Impact Analysais (EIA)
2. Urban planning
3. Transportation planning
4. Community development
5. Space utilization planning
6. Disaster Management
7. Zoning of Landslides hazard
8. Determination of land cover and land use
9. Estimation of flood damage
10. Management of Natural Resources
11. Soil Mapping
12. Wetland Mapping
Importance of GIS for environmental sustainability

4. Importance and application of GIS for environmental sustainability
Some major fields in what can GIS & remote sensing be used for
 Weather
 Land surface temperature
 Air Quality/particles
 Rainfall
 Forestry
 Forest canopy density
 Forest fire monitoring
 Gap analysis for Protected Area Network/ biological
exploration
 Agriculture
 Crop identification and crop conditions/health analysis
 Agricultural Drought Monitoring
 soil moisture content
 Crop production forecasting
 Determining crop damage and crop progress
 Surface changes
 Land cover change
 Land use index assessment
 Biodiversity
 Biodiversity assessment – Landscape to species
 Temporal Monitoring (deforestation, habitat change)
 Wildlife Management
 Species distribution patterns and modelling
 Vegetation status

5. Application of GIS for Environmental Monitoring
Some major tools used in GIS for Remote sensing Data Analysis
 Maximum likelihood supervised and ISO cluster supervised
Classification
 Principle component analysis
 Spatial analyst tool ( Extraction, Local, Map algebra, Interpolation,
Overlay, Reclass, Surface, zonal statistics )
 Advance Editing tool
 3D analyst tool (Profile graph, contour)
 Model Builder
Importance and application of GIS for environmental sustainability

6. Application Machine Learning Environmental Monitoring
Some major Machine Learning approach
 Regression Algorithms
 Decision Tree Algorithms
 Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)
 Cellular Automata (CA)
 Support Vector Machine (SVM)
Useful Software for Machine Learning Application
Useful Software for Remote sensing application
 QGIS MOLUSCE PLUGIN (Applicable in version 2)
 IDRISI Selva land change modeller
 ERDAS Imagine
 QGIS
 IDRISI Selva
 ENVI
 ARC GIS

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Lists of RS and GIS journals
** Remote Sensing
4.77 (6.07, 5.28) Remote Sensing of Environment
2.90 (4.20, 3.44) ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing
2.93 (3.39, 3.30) IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote
Sensing
2.54 (2.81, 2.33) Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
2.83 (2.96, 1.68) IEEE Applied Earth Observations and Remote
Sensing
2.62 (2.73, -) Remote Sensing
2.07 (2.11, 1.73) Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote
Sensing
1.81 (1.91, 1.85) IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
1.36 (1.72, 1.62) International Journal of Remote Sensing
1.43 (1.56, 0.70) Remote Sensing Letters
1.09 (1.46, 1.08) Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
1.48 (1.40, 1.02) GIScience & Remote Sensing
1.38 (1.31, 1.49) The Photogrammetric Record
0.89 (1.03, -) Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
0.53 (-, -) Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing
** GIS
1.48 (1.95, 1.85) International Journal of Geographical
Information Science
? (?) The Geographical Journal
? (?, 2.12) Geoforum
1.12 (1.41, -) Journal of Geographical Sciences
0.73 (0.79, 0.49) Chinese Geographical Science
1.0 (?, ?) Transactions in GIS
1.56 (1.95, 1.71) Computers & Geosciences
0.41 (1.03, -) Journal of Spatial Science
2.06 (2.24, 1.43) International Journal of Digital Earth
1.29 (1.18, 1.08) GeoInformatica
Journal of Geographical Systems
Geocarto International
Journal of Geographic Information System
Geo-spatial Information Science
GeoJournal
Geographical Research
Geography Compass
GeoJournal

8. Lists of Some universities providing Masters and PhD
degree in Remote sensing and Earth Science around
the world
1. Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) | Netherlands
2. Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
3. Utrecht University | Netherlands
4. Technical University of Munich | Germany
5. The University of Southampton | Southampton, England
6. University of Southampton ; | Southampton, England
7. University of Cambridge ; | Cambridge, England
8. University of Eastern Finland | Finland
9. The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) | Norway |
10. Technical University of Denmark | Denmark
11. Tremblay en France, le de France | France
12. American Geophysical Union | Model City, New York |
13. University of Twente (UT) | Netherlands
14. University College London | London, England
15. Universitat de Barcelona | Spain
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