Geospatial Science for Smart Land Management in Asia

This book on geospatial science for smart land management in Asia addresses the variety of geospatial theories, concepts, models, technologies, applications, and utilisations to execute land management projects and interventions in a smart manner in the geographical context of Asia. It bridges two specific knowledge domains, namely geospatial science and land management science. This combination of domains is needed because land management in Asia becomes increasingly complex and dynamic, whilst needing to adhere to multiple contradictory interests and contributions of stakeholders and regulatory agencies. Asia experiences a broad plethora of problems and opportunities in the land and property sector, such as rapid socio-economic development and population growth, urbanisation and rural de-population, land scarcity and competition in cities and in fertile rural areas, housing complex developments, natural and human-induced disasters, and effects of climate change. Understanding and analysing geospatial properties and phenomena and choosing and utilising the associated (big) data is therefore of utmost importance to support land managers and spatial planners on the one hand, and administrative and regulatory agencies (such as land and spatial planning ministries, cadastres and land registers, regional and local governments, mobility, transport and infrastructure agencies) on the other hand.