Disha Thakur, PhD is an assistant professor in civil engineering at the University Institute of Technology (UIT), Shimla, India. She has published 13 research and conference papers and book chapters in reputed journals and national and international Conferences. Her research interests include geotechnical engineering and solid waste management.Sanjay Kumar, PhD is working an assistant professor at the University Institute of Technology, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India. He has research experience in various areas of electrical engineering. He has published 24 research papers in reputed national and international journals and 18 research papers in national and international conferences. He has 8 years of teaching and has delivered expert lectures at many colleges and universities in India.Har Amrit Singh Sandhu, PhD is part of the faculty in the Civil Engineering Department at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India. He is also president of the American Society of Civil Engineers' Indian Chapter (North) and the coordinator at the Centre of Geospatial Technologies and a Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme cell. He has more than 20 years of experience in working, teaching, and researching in the geospatial field and has published various research papers in reputed national and international journals.Chander Prakash, PhD is an assistant professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Hamirpur, India. He has published more than 25 research papers in reputed national and international journals and conferences and has completed a number of research and development projects.

• Preface xvii 1 Development of a Two-Layer Meta-Classifier–Based Drought Stress Detection System for Wheat Crop Sustainability 1Ankita Gupta, Lakhwinder Kaur and Gurmeet Kaur2 Comparison of Geo-Statistical Techniques: A Study Based on Mapping Soil Properties for a Lower Himalayan Watershed 41Sahil Sharma, Shankar Yadav, Vinay Meena and Deepak Swami3 Monitoring Crop Conditions of Punjab State Using Big Data Analytics 59Harpinder Singh, Ajay Roy, Shashikant Patel and Brijendra Pateriya4 An Investigation into Use of Ethereum Blockchain Technology to Validate the Reliability and Quality of Stored Satellite Images 73Lince Mathew, Hamid Jahankhan and Sumesh Dadwal5 Urban Expansion and Traffic Congestion: A Geographical Study of Shimla 107Akshat Sharma and Amardeep Boora6 Landslide Susceptibility Analysis for Sustainable Development in the Indian Himalayas 129Ankur Sharma and Har Amrit Singh Sandhu7 Application of Geospatial Tools in Glacial Lake Outburst Floods: Mapping and Monitoring 155Anita Sharma, Vansheika and Chander Prakash8 Dynamic Coastal Flood Risk Assessment of a Coastal Island in West Bengal, India 181Praneta, N., Aishwarya, N. and Bharath, H. A.9 A Review of Methods for Studying Glacier Dynamics Due to Climate Change in the Himalayas 217Shanta Kumar and Anurag Linda10 Geospatial Techniques for Flash Flood Hazard Assessment and Management 241Nitesh Godara, Amit Challana, Tarun Bansal and Arun Bawa11 Prediction of Water Hardness Using Machine Learning and Model Interpretation 263Aarti Kochhar, Harpinder Singh, Shashikant Patel, P.K. Litoria and Brijendra Pateriya12 Air Quality Mapping Using GIS for Kanpur City, India 285Varun Yadav and Rajiv Ganguly13 Geospatial Modeling Approach and Characteristics Study of Graphene-Anchored Cu-Nanoferrites and Their Potential in Arsenic Containing Wastewater Treatment 299G. Murtaza and Ahmad Ayyaz14 Managing Construction and Demolition Waste Illegal Dumping through GIS: A Case Study of Urban Metropolitan 327Shubhi Nuna, Bharath H. Aithal and Brajesh Dubey15 Assessment of Human Health Risk in Baitarani Basin, Odisha Using Water Quality Index (WQI), Cluster Analysis (CA), and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 365 Abhijeet Das16 Drone Mapping for Agricultural Sustainability: Applications and Benefits 411Arun Bawa, Gurjinder Baath, Pulkit Juneja and Jaiveer Brar17 Advanced Use of Drones in Irrigation and Water Management 437Swati Sharma and Pragya SinghIndex 455