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Author:   Joseph Awange
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2nd ed. 2018
Weight:   8.336kg
ISBN:  

9783319584171

ISBN 10:   3319584170
Pages:   452
Publication Date:   12 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Environmental monitoring.- Modernization of GNSS.- The Global Positioning System.-Mathematical modelling.- Environmental surveying and surveillance.- Data processing and adjustment.- Basics of Galileo satellites.- GNSS maps in environmental monitoring.- GNSS remote sensing of the environment.- GNSS Reflectometry and Applications.- Climate change and weather related impacts.- GNSS Sensing of Climate Variability.- GNSS Sensing of the Tropopause.- Water resources.- Coastal resources.- Land management.- Disaster management.- Environmental pollution.-Animals and vegetation protection and conservation.- Environmental impact assessment.- Applications to Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles/Drones (UAV). 

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Professor Joseph Awange joined the Department of Spatial Sciences (Curtin University, Australia) in 2006 under a Curtin Research Fellowship and concurrently undertook the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship at the Geodetic Institute (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) having been awarded the Australian 2008-2011 Ludwig Leichhardt Memorial Fellowship for experienced researchers. In 2015, he won all the three major Fellowship Awards: Alexander von Humboldt (Germany), Japan Society of Promotion of Science (Japan) and Brazil Frontier of Science (Brazil) to carry out research in those countries. At Curtin University, he is currently engaged in teaching and research having attracted more than $1.5M worth of research grants. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Surveying from the University of Nairobi (Kenya), and was also awarded a merit scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD), which facilitated his obtaining a second MSc degree and PhD in Geodesy at Stuttgart University (Germany). In 2002-2004, he was awarded the prestigious Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship to pursue postdoctoral research at Kyoto University (Japan). Prof Awange attained International Editorial role in Springer Earth Science Books and has authored 11 scholarly books with the prestigious Springer publishers and more than 130 peer-reviewed high impact journal publications (in e,g., Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Climate, Climatic Change, Advances in Water Resources, International Journal of Climatology, and Journal of Hydrology among others).  

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