Advancements in Urban Environmental Studies

Chapter 1. Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence for Urban Environmental Studies.- Chapter 2. A Systematic Review on the Application of Geospatial Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Urban Growth Modeling.- Chapter 3. Urban Expansion Monitoring Using Machine Learning Algorithms on Google Earth Engine Platform and Cellular Automata Model: A Case Study of Raiganj Municipality, West Bengal, India.- Chapter 4. Multi-Temporal Dynamics of Land Use Land Cover Change and Urban Expansion in the Tropical Coastal District of Kozhikode.- Chapter 5. Land Use Land Cover Change Modeling and Forecasting in Mumbai City by Integrating Cellular Automata and Artificial Neural Network.- Chapter 6. Monitoring Urban Sprawl Using Geo-Spatial Technology: A Case Study of Kanpur City, India.- Chapter 7. Studying Urban Growth Dynamics in Indo-Gangetic Plain.- Chapter 8. Monitoring and Prediction of Spatiotemporal Land Use Land Cover Change Using Markov Chain Cellular Automata Model in Barisal, Bangladesh.- Chapter 9. Urban Change Detection Analysis Using Big Data and Machine Learning: A Review.- Chapter 10. Urban Green and Blue Spaces Dynamics - A Geospatial Analysis using Remote Sensing, Machine Learning and Landscape Metrics in Rajshahi Metropolitan City, Bangladesh.- Chapter 11. Quantifying the Impact of Urban Greenspace Pattern to Land Surface Temperature: Evidence from an Urban Agglomeration of Eastern India.- Chapter 12. Urban Effects on Hydrological Status and Trophic State in Peri-Urban Wetland.- Chapter 13. Integrated Urban Decarbonization Planning Tool for Global Cities.- Chapter 14. Perception of Ecosystem Services from Urban Green Space: A Case from An Urban and A Peri-Urban Green Space in English Bazar Urban Agglomeration, Eastern India.- Chapter 15. Monitoring Spatio-Temporal Reduction of An Urban Wetland Using Landsat Time Series Analysis: A Case Study of Deepor Beel, Assam, India.-

Dr. Atiqur Rahman is Professor of Geography at Dept. of Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia. He is Alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh. He completed B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from AMU, Aligarh. His research interest is urban environmental management, water resources, and use of remote sensing satellite data, GIS, and GPS. He was Post-doctoral Fellow (PDF) at UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany (1999). He was Co-PI of Indo-Germany DST-DAAD major project. He is Recipient of prestigious Young Scientist Project Grant Award (2001-2004) from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. He worked as Member of Scientific Research Team of NASA funded UEM project on Urban Ecology and Sustainability (2004-2007). He is Co-PI Indo-Canadian major research projects on Economic Transformation and Childhood Obesity funded by ICMR (India) and CHI (Canada) 2010-2015. He was Co-PI of a major research project funded by Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India. He was the collaborating Scientist of NASA funded major project on Impacts of Desert Urbanization on Climate using Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling (2012-2015). Prof. Rahman has also done professional development initiative training on Climate Change and Its Impacts: Resilience and Adaptation to Changes in Precipitation at Brown University, USA (2010). He served as Steering Committee (SC) Member (2009-2012) of Population and Environment Research Network (PERN), CISIN, Columbia University, USA. He was Advisor-Technical cum Consultant on Remote Sensing and GIS for the project (2013-18) in the PHFI & AIIMS, and Emory University, USA project. He was also Member of the National Steering Committee (NSC) on Technology Need Assessment (TNA) for Habitat Sector (TIFAC), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He also served as Member, GoverningBody (GB), of some colleges of