Mapping and Spatial Analysis of Socio-economic and Environmental Indicators for Sustainable Development: Case Studies from North Africa

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This book presents most recent research studies on mapping and spatial analysis of socio-economic and environmental indicators used by various national and international contributors to regional development projects. It gathers the best contributions to the 1st International Conference on Mapping and Spatial Analysis of Socio-Economic and Environmental Indicators for the Local and Regional Sustainable Development. The conference was held in southern Tunisia, Tataouine in March 2015.The research studies focused on generating and analyzing indicators in various domains of Agriculture, Energy, Industry, Tourism, Transport, Urban Planning, Exploitation of Natural Resources, Infrastructure, Health, Environment, Education, Information and Communication Technologies, Social Affairs and Employability, and Culture and Sport. Socio-economic and environmental indicators are important in regional development plans and strategies as they allow to observe and analyze changes in the economic growth and to measure their impact on the environment and on social networks/daily life of citizens. On the basis of well-defined geomatic approaches, and particularly, through sophisticated digital mapping and spatio-temporal analyses, authors focused on retrieving indicators to evaluate the exploitation rate of natural resources, intensity of the energy consumption in various economic sector, net migratory flows, quality checking of the air in urban areas, adaptation to climate change, and vulnerability of the coastal domain and risk of marine submersion due to sea-level rise. The book is of interest not only to investors and contributors to regional development projects, but also to all relevant policy makers. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Mapping and Spatial Analysis of Sustainable Development Indicators to Optimize the Quality of Life Using AHP Methods: A Case Study Tataouine, Tunisia (Zeineb Ben Cheikh, Noamen Rebai)....Pages 3-12 A Qualitative Study of the Relevance of the WikiGIS Functionalities to the Collaborative Dimension of the Geodesign Process (Wided Batita, Stephane Roche, Claude Caron)....Pages 13-25 Predicting and Assessing Journey Time Through the Application of Itinerary Selection in an Emergency Context (Mohamed Ayet Allah Bilel Soussi, Jean-Michel Follin, Chamseddine Zaki)....Pages 27-36 Multi-source Object-Based Approach for Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Land Cover (Mohamed Mastere, Abdelkrim Achbun, Salma El Fellah, Bouchta El Fellah)....Pages 37-49 Comparative Analysis of the Classification of Maximum Reality (MVS) and the Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM) of an Aster Image. Case Study: Soil Occupancy in the Main Area (Tunisia) (Sonia Gannouni, Noamen Rebai)....Pages 51-62 Assessment Approach for the Automatic Lineaments Extraction Results Using Multisource Data and GIS Environment: Case Study in Nefza Region in North-West of Tunisia (Slimene Sedrette, Noamen Rebai)....Pages 63-69 Front Matter ....Pages 71-71 Mass Movement Hazard Assessment at a Medium Scale Using Weight of Evidence Model and Neo-predictive Variables Creation (Mohamed Mastere)....Pages 73-85 Evaluation of Morphometric Indices SL, LP, AD for the Spatial Analysis of Neotectonics and Recent Crustal Deformations Case study: Atlas Central, Tunisia (Noamen Rebai, Ali Chaieb, Abdelkader Moussi, Slimene Sedrette)....Pages 87-93 Hydrological Response to Snow Cover Changes Using Remote Sensing over the Oum Er Rbia Upstream Basin, Morocco (Abdelghani Boudhar, Hamza Ouatiki, Hafsa Bouamri, Youssef Lebrini, Ismail Karaoui, Mohammed Hssaisoune et al.)....Pages 95-102 A Topo-Bathymetric Survey of the Morphological Evolution of a Microtidal Barred Beach. Case Study: The Coastal Prism of Korba (Mediterranean Coast; Northeast of Tunisia) (Zouhour Yahyaoui, François Sabatier, Noamen Rebai, Saâdi Abdeljaouad)....Pages 103-116 Front Matter ....Pages 117-117 Using Aerial Photography for Semi-automatic Extraction of Road Network at a Scale of 1:25000 (Karim Mansouri, Noamen Rebai, Sahar Gaaloul, Murad Salhi)....Pages 119-132 Methodology of Updating Touristic Map Using Open Source and Open Spatial Data (OSOD). A Case Study of Ben Arous City, Tunisia. (Abdelkader Moussi, Noamen Rebai)....Pages 133-147 Open Remote Sensing Image Classification Using NDVI and Thermal Bands (Mohamed Mastere, Abdelkrim Achbun, Bouchta El Fellah)....Pages 149-161 Analysis of Noisy Satellite Image Using Statistical Approach (Salma El Fellah, Salwa Lagdali, Mohammed Rziza, Younes El Fellah)....Pages 163-167