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Part 1: Setting the scene: principles in remote sensing and spatial scene modelling for land degradation assessment<br/><br/>Coupled human-environment system approaches to desertification: Linking people to pixels<br/>ByEric F. Lambin, Helmut Geist, James F. Reynolds & D. Mark Stafford-Smith<br/><br/>Remote sensing based assessment of biophysical indicators for land degradation and desertification<br/>BySusan L. Ustin, Alacia Palacios-Orueta, Michael L. Whiting, Stéphane Jacquemoud & Lin Li<br/><br/>Integrated environmental modelling to characterise processes of land degradation and desertification for policy support<br/>ByMark Mulligan<br/><br/>Estimating area-averaged surface fluxes over contrasted agricultural patchwork in a semi-arid region<br/>ByAbdelghani Chehbouni, Jamal Ezzahar, Christopher J. Watts, Julio-César Rodriguez & Jaime Garatuza-Payan<br/><br/>Part 2 The global perspective: strategies for large area mapping<br/><br/>Potential of long time series of FAPAR products for assessing and monitoring land surface changes: Examples in Europe and the Sahel<br/>ByNadine Gobron, Michel M. Verstraete, Bernard Pinty, Malcolm Taberner & Ophélie Aussedat<br/><br/>Inter-comparison of MEDOKADS and NOAA/NASA pathfinder AVHRR land NDVI time series<br/>ByKarsten Friedrich & Dirk Koslowsky<br/><br/>Change detection in Syria’s rangelands using long-term AVHRR data (1982–2004)<br/>ByThomas Udelhoven & Joachim Hill<br/><br/>‘Hot spot’ assessment of land cover change in the CWANA region using AVHRR satellite imagery<br/>ByDavid Celis & Eddy De Pauw<br/><br/>Fuzzy integration of satellite data for detecting environmental anomalies across Africa<br/>ByPietro Alessandro Brivio, Mirco Boschetti, Paola Carrara, Daniela Stroppiana & Gloria Bordogna<br/><br/>The spatial uncertainty of desiccation in the West African Sahel and its implications for land degradation<br/>ByAndrew Chappell & Clive T. Agnew<br/><br/>Onogoing desertification processes in the sahelian belt of West Africa: An evidence from the rain-use efficiency<br/>ByYvon Carmen Hountondji, Nestor Sokpon, Jacques Nicolas & Pierre Ozer<br/><br/>Part 3 Taking a closer look: biophysical indicators of vegetation and soils<br/><br/>Vegetation cover and biomass along climatic gradients: The synergy of remote sensing and field studies in two Eastern Mediterranean sites<br/>ByMaxim Shoshany<br/><br/>Modelling species distributions with high resolution remote sensing data to delineate patterns of plant diversity in the Sahel zone of Burkina Faso<br/>ByKonstantin König, Marco Schmidt & Jonas V. Müller<br/><br/>Retrieving rangeland vegetation characteristics through constrained inverse reflectance modelling of earth observation satellite imagery<br/>ByJoachim Hill, Achim Röder, Wolfgang Mehl & Georgios M. Tsiourlis<br/><br/>Using reflectance spectroscopy and Landsat data to assess soil inorganic carbon in the Judean Desert (Israel)<br/>ByThomas Jarmer, Hanoch Lavée, Pariente Sarah & Joachim Hill<br/><br/>Simulating Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MISR) sampling and retrieval of soil surface roughness and composition changes using a bi-directional soil spectral reflectance model<br/>ByAndrew Chappell, John F. Leys, Grant H. McTainsh, Craig Strong & Ted M. Zobeck<br/><br/>Mapping land degradation risk: Potential of the non-evaporative fraction using Aster and MODIS data<br/>ByMónica García, Sergio Contreras, Francisco Domingo & Juan Puigdefábregas<br/><br/>Part 4 Stories behind pixels: process-based assessment of geospatial data<br/><br/>Geomatics-based characterization of spatial and temporal trends in heterogeneous Mediterranean rangelands of Northern Greece<br/>ByAchim Röder, Joachim Hill, Tobias Kuemmerle, Gabriel del Barrio, Vasilios P. Papanastasis & Georgios M. Tsiourlis<br/><br/>Integrating GPS technologies in dynamic spatio-temporal models to monitor grazing habits in dry rangelands<br/>ByTal Svoray, Rakefet Shafran-Nathan, Eugene D. Ungar, Amir Arnon & Avi Perevolotsky<br/><br/>Satellite image processing and geo-statistical methods for assessing land degradation around watering points in the Ust-Urt Plateau, Kazakhstan<br/>ByArnon Karnieli, Uri Gilad & Tal Svoray<br/><br/>Landscape analysis using multi-scale segmentation and object-oriented classification<br/>ByBarnaby J.F. Clark & Petri K.E. Pellikka<br/><br/>Land use and carbon stock capacity in slash-and-burn ecosystems in mountainous mainlands of Laos<br/>ByYoshio Inoue, Jiaguo Qi, Yoshiyuki Kiyono, Yukinori Ochiai, Takeshi Horie, Tatsuhiko Shiraiwa, Hidetoshi Asai, Kazuki Saito, Linkham Dounagsavanh & Albert Olioso<br/> |
