advances in geoinformatics technologies: facilities and utilities optimization and management for smart city applications

There are many GIS products for smart cities to implement smart city projects or activities. Most of the Geoinformatics Technologies and its application books are theoretical and lack of examples with real world data and step by step explanations to understand the facilities and utilities optimization and management for smart city applications and socio-economic aspects.

This book focuses and discusses topics related to how technological advances in Geoinformatics can help in the management operations of smart city applications to help our environment to be smart. Specifically, the volume focuses on how these advancements can help optimize and manage facilities and utilities. This book focuses on geoinformation modelling, geo-smart city applications, geoinformation technology, information system and computer science, and geolocation and positioning as its five primary areas of discussion. Each of these primary subjects delves into the application that uses geoinformatics technology in greater depth. This covers the use of Geoinformatics technology in the prevention of crime, coastal erosion, carbon emission modelling, landslide modelling, urban farming, and various other applications linked to the field. This book’s objective is to provide a comprehensive review of the accomplishments that geoinformatics has made in a number of different application areas for smart cities. It covers Geoinformation Technologies, Geoinformation Modelling, Information System and Computer Science, Geolocation & Positioning, and Geo-Smart City Applications.

The book will be useful to graduate students, university faculty, and researchers in Geoinformatics sciences/engineering and architecture and town planning. It will also be useful to entrepreneurs, professionals, and planners in policy and decision making at the local, state and national levels.

Prof. Ram Narayan Yadava holds position of Director of Research and International Affairs in Madhyanchal Professional University, Bhopal, (M.P.) India; and Director of Patel Group of Institutions, India. He has worked as a advisor of AISECT Group of Universities and a founding Vice Chancellor of the AISECT University, Hazaribag (Jharkhand), India. Prof. Yadava is also a founding member of a premier scientific research organization named as Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI) under the umbrella of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. His research interests include Solid Mechanics, Environmental Quality and Water Resources, Hydrologic Modeling, Environmental Mldelling, and R&D Planning and Management. Dr. Yadava has executed a variety of research/consultancy projects in the area of Water Resources Planning and Management, Environment, Remote Sensing, Mathematical Modeling, Technology Forecasting, etc. He has adequate experience in establishing institutes / organizations. In addition, he has adequate experience in planning, formulating, executing and managing of R&D programs including organizing seminars / symposia / conferences at national and international levels. He has got to his credit guiding a number of M. Tech. and Ph.D. students in the area of Mathematical Sciences and Earth Sciences. Dr. Yadava has visited and delivered invited lectures at different institutes/universities in India as well as in abroad in the various countries such as USA, Canada, UK, France, Thailand, Germany, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Costa Rica, The Netherlands, France, China, Tunisia and Australia. He is Recipient of Raman Research Fellowship and other awards. Dr. Yadava has been recognized for four decades of leadership in research and service to the hydrologic, environment and water resources profession. Dr. Yadava’s contribution to the state of the art has been significant in many different specialty areas, including water resources management, environmental sciences, irrigation science, soil and water conservation engineering, and mathematical modeling. He has published more than 100 journal articles; four text books; sixteen edited reference books. He is reviewer of scientific journals and member of the scientific committee of international conferences. He also holds position of Vice President of International Association of Water, Environment, Energy and Society.

Prof. Muhamad Uznir Ujang is an associate professor and is the head of the 3D GIS research group at the Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). UTM is a government-funded institution that has reached the top spot in Malaysia’s rankings for engineering and technology. He is making consistent progress in a number of different research fields related to spatial applications, including 3D city modelling, 3D GIS, Building Information Modelling (BIM), nD topology, and spatial data structures. In addition, he and his group are collaborating closely with academic institutions and private companies (local and international). He has worked as an academician in research university for many years and is a skilled in many areas linked to GIS research and development, including research planning, research publication, professional consultation, and research project management. He has authored more than 100 scholarly articles, many of which have appeared in highly regarded international journals and conferences. With over 340 citations and an H-Index of 12, he is an active member of the scientific community, serving on the programme scientific committee for a wide range of international conferences and as a reviewer for numerous academic publications.