Part 1: Setting the scene: principles in remote sensing and spatial scene modelling for land degradation assessment

Coupled human-environment system approaches to desertification: Linking people to pixels
ByEric F. Lambin, Helmut Geist, James F. Reynolds & D. Mark Stafford-Smith

Remote sensing based assessment of biophysical indicators for land degradation and desertification
BySusan L. Ustin, Alacia Palacios-Orueta, Michael L. Whiting, Stéphane Jacquemoud & Lin Li

Integrated environmental modelling to characterise processes of land degradation and desertification for policy support
ByMark Mulligan

Estimating area-averaged surface fluxes over contrasted agricultural patchwork in a semi-arid region
ByAbdelghani Chehbouni, Jamal Ezzahar, Christopher J. Watts, Julio-César Rodriguez & Jaime Garatuza-Payan

Part 2 The global perspective: strategies for large area mapping

Potential of long time series of FAPAR products for assessing and monitoring land surface changes: Examples in Europe and the Sahel
ByNadine Gobron, Michel M. Verstraete, Bernard Pinty, Malcolm Taberner & Ophélie Aussedat

Inter-comparison of MEDOKADS and NOAA/NASA pathfinder AVHRR land NDVI time series
ByKarsten Friedrich & Dirk Koslowsky

Change detection in Syria’s rangelands using long-term AVHRR data (1982–2004)
ByThomas Udelhoven & Joachim Hill

‘Hot spot’ assessment of land cover change in the CWANA region using AVHRR satellite imagery
ByDavid Celis & Eddy De Pauw

Fuzzy integration of satellite data for detecting environmental anomalies across Africa
ByPietro Alessandro Brivio, Mirco Boschetti, Paola Carrara, Daniela Stroppiana & Gloria Bordogna

The spatial uncertainty of desiccation in the West African Sahel and its implications for land degradation
ByAndrew Chappell & Clive T. Agnew

Onogoing desertification processes in the sahelian belt of West Africa: An evidence from the rain-use efficiency
ByYvon Carmen Hountondji, Nestor Sokpon, Jacques Nicolas & Pierre Ozer

Part 3 Taking a closer look: biophysical indicators of vegetation and soils

Vegetation cover and biomass along climatic gradients: The synergy of remote sensing and field studies in two Eastern Mediterranean sites
ByMaxim Shoshany

Modelling species distributions with high resolution remote sensing data to delineate patterns of plant diversity in the Sahel zone of Burkina Faso
ByKonstantin König, Marco Schmidt & Jonas V. Müller

Retrieving rangeland vegetation characteristics through constrained inverse reflectance modelling of earth observation satellite imagery
ByJoachim Hill, Achim Röder, Wolfgang Mehl & Georgios M. Tsiourlis

Using reflectance spectroscopy and Landsat data to assess soil inorganic carbon in the Judean Desert (Israel)
ByThomas Jarmer, Hanoch Lavée, Pariente Sarah & Joachim Hill

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
ByAndrew Chappell, John F. Leys, Grant H. McTainsh, Craig Strong & Ted M. Zobeck

Mapping land degradation risk: Potential of the non-evaporative fraction using Aster and MODIS data
ByMónica García, Sergio Contreras, Francisco Domingo & Juan Puigdefábregas

Part 4 Stories behind pixels: process-based assessment of geospatial data

Geomatics-based characterization of spatial and temporal trends in heterogeneous Mediterranean rangelands of Northern Greece
ByAchim Röder, Joachim Hill, Tobias Kuemmerle, Gabriel del Barrio, Vasilios P. Papanastasis & Georgios M. Tsiourlis

Integrating GPS technologies in dynamic spatio-temporal models to monitor grazing habits in dry rangelands
ByTal Svoray, Rakefet Shafran-Nathan, Eugene D. Ungar, Amir Arnon & Avi Perevolotsky

Satellite image processing and geo-statistical methods for assessing land degradation around watering points in the Ust-Urt Plateau, Kazakhstan
ByArnon Karnieli, Uri Gilad & Tal Svoray

Landscape analysis using multi-scale segmentation and object-oriented classification
ByBarnaby J.F. Clark & Petri K.E. Pellikka

Land use and carbon stock capacity in slash-and-burn ecosystems in mountainous mainlands of Laos
ByYoshio Inoue, Jiaguo Qi, Yoshiyuki Kiyono, Yukinori Ochiai, Takeshi Horie, Tatsuhiko Shiraiwa, Hidetoshi Asai, Kazuki Saito, Linkham Dounagsavanh & Albert Olioso