The application of GIS and RS in Environmental Monitoring.

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.

2. Application of Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring
Some major fields in what can 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

3. 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

4. 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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