Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing for Land Degradation Assessment

by Roeder; Achim

• ISBN13: 9780415397698
• ISBN10: 0415397693
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134152421
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-22
• Publisher: CRC Press
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Summary

Land degradation and desertification are amongst the most severe threats to human welfare and the environment, as they affect the livelihoods of some 2 billion people in the world's drylands, and they are directly connected to pressing global environmental problems, such as the loss of biological diversity or global climate change. Strategies to combat these processes and mitigate their effects at the land-management and policy level require spatially explicit, up-to-date information, which can be provided based on remote sensing data and using geoinformation processing techniques.

Author Biography

Achim Roder is a senior scientist and lecturer with the Remote Sensing Department, University of Trier, and has been involved in research on desertification and land degradation for more than 10 years. His present research focuses on the characterization of landscape trends using time series analysis, and the derivation of biophysical indicators under consideration of scaling effects and transitions. Joachim Hill has been head of the Remote Sensing Department, University of Trier, since 1994. His research focuses on the application of hyper- and multispectral remote sensing techniques to derive biophysical vegetation parameters and their assimilation in ecosystem models, and on mapping and monitoring land degradation phenomena in dryland ecosystems.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. IX
Contributors	p. XI
Remote sensing and geoinformation processing in land degradation assessment-an introduction	p. XVII
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	p. 3
Remote sensing based assessment of biophysical indicators for land degradation and desertification	p. 15
Integrated environmental modelling to characterise processes of land degradation and desertification for policy support	p. 45
Estimating area-averaged surface fluxes over contrasted agricultural patchwork in a semi-arid region	p. 73
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	p. 89
Inter-comparison of MEDOKADS and NOAA/NASA pathfinder AVHRR land NDVI time series	p. 103
Change detection in Syria's rangelands using long-term AVHRR data (1982-2004)	p. 117
`Hot spot' assessment of land cover change in the CWANA region using AVHRR satellite imagery	p. 133
Fuzzy integration of satellite data for detecting environmental anomalies across Africa	p. 147
The spatial uncertainty of desiccation in the West African Sahel and its implications for land degradation	p. 161
Onogoing desertification processes in the sahelian belt of West Africa: An evidence from the rain-use efficiency	p. 173
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	p. 189
Modelling species distributions with high resolution remote sensing data to delineate patterns of plant diversity in the Sahel zone of Burkina Faso	p. 199
Retrieving rangeland vegetation characteristics through constrained inverse reflectance modelling of earth observation satellite imagery	p. 211
Using reflectance spectroscopy and Landsat data to assess soil inorganic carbon in the Judean Desert (Israel)	p. 227
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	p. 243
Mapping land degradation risk: Potential of the non-evaporative fraction using Aster and MODIS data	p. 261
Stories behind pixels: process-based assessment of geospatial data
Geomatics-based characterization of spatial and temporal trends in heterogeneous Mediterranean rangelands of Northern Greece	p. 281
Integrating GPS technologies in dynamic spatio-temporal models to monitor grazing habits in dry rangelands	p. 301
Satellite image processing and geo-statistical methods for assessing land degradation around watering points in the Ust-Urt Plateau, Kazakhstan	p. 313
Landscape analysis using multi-scale segmentation and object-oriented classification	p. 323
Land use and carbon stock capacity in slash-and-burn ecosystems in mountainous mainlands of Laos	p. 343
Author index	p. 359
Subject index	p. 361
ISPRS Book Series	p. 367
Colour plates	p. 369
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