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Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing for Land Degradation Assessment (Hardcover)
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Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing for Land Degradation Assessment (Hardcover)
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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.Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and Geoinformation
Processing for Land Degradation Assessment introduces the current
state of the art in this field and provides an overview of both
conceptual and technological advances of the recent past. With a
specific focus on desertification and land degradation, the volume
covers the assessment of related biophysical indicators, as well as
complementary qualitative information at different spatial and
temporal scales. It is shown how remote sensing data may be
utilized in the context of assessing and monitoring affected
ecosystems and how this information may be assimilated into
integrated interpretation and modelling concepts. In addition,
different case studies are provided to demonstrate the
implementation of these methods in the frame of different local
settings.The volume will be of interest to scientists and students
working at the interface of ecosystem services, land
degradation/desertification, spatial ecology, remote sensing and
spatial modelling, as well as to land managers and policy makers.
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