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020 _a978-0-203-87544-5
040 _cDepartment of Geology
100 _aRoeder, Achim
245 0 _aRecent Advances in Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing for Land Degradation Assessment/
260 _c2009.
505 _aPart 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
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1201/9780203875445
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