Military Geosciences and Desert Warfare

Chapter 1 An Unfortunate Accident of Geography: Badlands and the ANZAC Sector, Gallipoli, April–December 1915

Chapter 2 From Army Outpost to Military Training Installations for Worldwide Operations: How WWII Transformed the Military Presence in the Southwestern United States

Chapter 3 Preparing for War in the Desert Southwest; From the California—Arizona Maneuver Area to the Yuma Test Branch (and Beyond)

Chapter 4 The Influence of Physical Geography on the Battle of Kasserine Pass, Tunisia 1943

Chapter 5 The Influence of Geology and Geography on the Indian Wars in Eastern Washington Territory

Chapter 6 Teaching Military Geoscience in the Twenty-first Century Classroom: Virtual Field Explorations of the Gettysburg Battlefield

Chapter 7 Fort Fisher, NC Past and Present: A Geospatial Analysis using LiDAR and GIS

Chapter 8 There’s Uranium in Them Hills: The Archaeology of Nevada’s Uranium Boom

Chapter 9 Military Development and Geographic Change on San Diego Bay

Chapter 10 High Density Metal Contaminant Transport in Arid Region Ephemeral Channels

Chapter 11 Comparing Playa Inundation Estimates from Landsat and LiDAR Data to a Doppler Radar-Based Hydrologic Model

Chapter 12 Environmental Security and Trans-Boundary Water Resources

Chapter 13 Environmental Reporting in the South African Department of Defense and Military Veterans

Chapter 14 Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and the Use of Forwarding Operating Bases (FOBs)

Chapter 15 U.S. Army Agriculture Development Teams, Afghanistan: The Role of the Geoscientist

Chapter 16 Regional Distribution of Salt-Rich Dust Across Southwest Asia Based on Predictive Soil-Geomorphic Mapping Techniques

Chapter 17 Digital Elevation Models to Support Desert Warfare

Chapter 18 Military Test Site Characterization and Training Future Officers—An Integrated Terrain Analysis Approach

Chapter 19 Use of Ground-Based LiDAR for Detection of IED Command Wires on Typical Desert Surfaces

Chapter 20 Parent Material Mapping of Geologic Surfaces Using ASTER in Support of Integrated Terrain Forecasting for Military Operations

Chapter 22 Integrated Terrain Forecasting for Military Operations in Deserts: Geologic Basis for Rapid Predictive Mapping of Soils and Terrain Features