Environmental Sciences Proceedings, Volume 5, Issue 1

The availability of very high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery (<1 m) has opened new vistas in large-scale mapping and information management in urban environments. Buildings are the most essential dynamic incremental factor in the urban environ...

Geochemical risk is caused by the release of hazardous chemicals to the earth surface. Primary diamond deposits are located in difficult mining and geological conditions. They represent natural geochemical anomalies associated with the mineral compos...

Cities in the last century have been suffering from the disorderly and unplanned growth of urban centers. Consequently, innumerable environmental problems started to plague these regions, one of them is the alteration of the surface temperature throu...

Wildland fires frequently happen and develop in hard-to-reach regions, fast covering large areas due to the presence of ignitable matters together with beneficial meteorological circumstances. Human actions and natural events are the main reasons for...

Sand is a common construction material used for various purposes, e.g., concrete, mortar, render, screed, and asphalt. The usage depends on its fineness, and its fineness is controlled by its mineralogical composition and physical-mechanical properti...

The correct representation of the topography of terrain is an important requirement to generate photogrammetric products such as orthoimages and maps from high-resolution (HR) or very high-resolution (VHR) satellite datasets. The refining of the digi...

Entering the European Union, the Republic of Croatia took over the INSPIRE directive called the National Spatial Data Infrastructure. A large amount of spatial data can be found through the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Geoportal. Data are ava...

Water has always been a critical resource for humans and climate change could aggravate supply problems. In this context, groundwater could be an important reservoir of water, especially given the dispersion of places where it can be obtained and the...

The current COVID-19 pandemic has created havoc in the regular workings of many institutions, such as those dedicated to teaching; therefore, there is an urge for alternatives to traditional face-to-face teaching. However, for certain subjects, such...

Crystallography concepts are usually among the most demanding subjects for Mineralogy students. Traditional onsite teaching of Mineralogy starts with physical models of crystal polyhedra and frequently also includes the observation of models of cryst...

Groundwater is considered one of the essential natural resources stored beneath the earth's surface by infiltration through various rock layers. Groundwater potential supplies almost 30% of fresh water globally, and in general, 65% of groundwater is...

The Lorraine–Saar Basin is one of the largest geologically and commercially important Paleozoic coal-bearing basins in Western Europe and has considerable coal reserves in numerous coal beds. The basin stands out due to its sedimentary column of up t...

In this work, the view of a series of practical research-and-educational activities and mentorship within the institute Research Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Bishkek (RS RAS) are presented. STEM learning on-site, specifically related...

Biosphere Reserves are laboratories of sustainability that provide local solutions to global challenges. They promote research, education and the creation of communities of practice that jointly generate knowledge that may be applicable in decision-m...

In this work, we present a series of educational activities that rely on geological tools to dive into the science of core standards. In this sense, Geology is not the subject to be studied, but the educational resource: we learn with Geology, rather...

Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world with around 718,000 deaths in the past fifty years. This country is especially in danger for cyclones because of its location in the triangular-shaped Bay of Bengal. The scientific scena...

Groundwater can be considered a non-polluting, renewable energy source. It can be used as a fluid in industrial, commercial, and residential building heating and air-conditioning systems. Usually, the water table is deep enough, so atmospheric condit...

Change detection (CD) is an essential tool for the accurate understanding of land surface changes using Earth observation data and is extremely important for detecting the interactions between social and natural occurrences in geoscience. Binary chan...

One of the numerous fundamental tasks to perform rescue operations after an earthquake is to check the status of buildings that have been destroyed. The methods to obtain the damage map are in two categories. The first group of methods uses data befo...

Owing to the effect on people, livestock, and materials, air pollution is a global hazard. To this end, stakeholders have taken on the challenge of quantifying the environment with the use of tools and eventually using the data produced to provide so...

This paper aims at addressing the potential of polarimetric indices derived from C-band Radarsat-2 images to estimate the surface soil moisture (SSM) over bare agricultural soils. Images have been acquired during the Multispectral Crop Monitoring (MC...

In order to prevent serious damages from a possible earthquake and to determine the possible losses, in settlements under earthquake risk, it is very important to extract building inventory information for further determination of the performance of...

The objective of this study is to analyze the capabilities of multi-temporal TerraSAR-X images to estimate the fine-scale SSM variability over bare agricultural plots (at a spatial scale ranging from 80 to 2800 m²). Time series of X-band satellite im...

Assessment of forest above ground biomass (AGB) is critical for managing forest and understanding the role of forest as source of carbon fluxes. Recently, satellite remote sensing products offer the chance to map forest biomass and carbon stock. The...