Computers in Earth and Environmental Sciences: Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technologies in Hazards and Risk Management (Paperback)

Part I: Natural Hazards 1. Landslides (susceptibility, hazards, and risks) 2. Earthquakes in Iran and the wider world 3. Snow avalanches 4. Flood spatial modeling 5. Drought and its spatial-temporal variability 6. Forest fires and hazard management 7. Land subsidence, mapping, and monitoring

Part II: Environmental Hazards 8. Greenhouse gases and global warming 9. Soil erosion?(water and wind) 10. Soil and water pollution 11. Land degradation 12. Heavy metals 13. Air quality 14. Landfill waste 15. Environmental and biological hazards

Part III: Advanced tools and technologies in risk management 16. Artificial intelligence 17. Machine learning and meta-heuristic algorithms 18. Multi-criteria decision-making tools 19. GIScience 20. Remote sensing and satellite imageries 21. Aerial robotics including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) 22. Web-GIS and hazard management 23. Land-based sensors 24. Social media and mobile apps in risk management 25. Internet of things (IoT),?and analyzing big data (BD) 26. Early warning systems 27. Open source?software tools

Part IV: Future challenges?in?the use of Computers in Environmental Science 28. Detection of change of vegetation cover 29. Urban sprawl 30. Surface and groundwater vulnerability 31. Species distributed modeling 32. Wind farm site selection 33. Digital soil mapping-DSM 34. Precision agriculture?