Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences, Clemson University, 105 Sikes Hall, Clemson, SC 29634, United States of America
Research Article
Gradual Development of Different Image Analyzing Tools for Natural Resources Management
Author(s): Sanjeev Sharma*, Churamani Khanal and Puskar Khanal
Remote sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) offers an abundant opportunity to monitor and manage
natural resources at multi-temporal, multi-spectral and multi-spatial resolution. It is an urgent need to understand the
specialized capabilities of an ever-expanding array of image sources and analysis techniques for natural resource
managers. In this article, we compile the various image analysis tools that can be used for natural resource
management (agriculture, water, forest, soil, natural hazards). Comparative study of different tools was done, and
importance of each tool was highlighted. The bibliographic study of the tools shows that the Google Earth Engine is
being used nowadays for the image analysis because of its wide area of coverage. Finding shows that Global Mapper is
used mainly for the 3D analysis, ENVI (The Environment for Visualizing Ima.. View more»