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Use of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to Assess Land Degradation at Multiple Scales

Author : Genesis T. Yengoh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319241125
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis Use of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to Assess Land Degradation at Multiple Scales by : Genesis T. Yengoh

Download or read book Use of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to Assess Land Degradation at Multiple Scales written by Genesis T. Yengoh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the scientific basis for the use of remotely sensed data, particularly Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), primarily for the assessment of land degradation at different scales and for a range of applications, including resilience of agro-ecosystems. Evidence is drawn from a wide range of investigations, primarily from the scientific peer-reviewed literature but also non-journal sources. The literature review has been corroborated by interviews with leading specialists in the field. The report reviews the use of NDVI for a range of themes related to land degradation, including land cover change, drought monitoring and early warning systems, desertification processes, greening trends, soil erosion and salinization, vegetation burning and recovery after fire, biodiversity loss, and soil carbon. This SpringerBrief also discusses the limits of the use of NDVI for land degradation assessment and potential for future directions of use. A substantial body of peer-reviewed research lends unequivocal support for the use of coarse-resolution time series of NDVI data for studying vegetation dynamics at global, continental and sub-continental levels. There is compelling evidence that these data are highly correlated with biophysically meaningful vegetation characteristics such as photosynthetic capacity and primary production that are closely related to land degradation and to agroecosystem resilience.

The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

Author : Nathalie Pettorelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199693161
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index by : Nathalie Pettorelli

Download or read book The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index written by Nathalie Pettorelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a coherent review of NDVI including its origin, its availability, its associated advantages and disadvantages, and its possible applications in ecology, environmental monitoring, wildlife management, and conservation.

Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development

Author : Ephraim Nkonya
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319191683
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Book Synopsis Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development by : Ephraim Nkonya

Download or read book Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development written by Ephraim Nkonya and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation due to land use and cover change (LUCC) and lower cropland and rangeland productivity is estimated to be about 300 billion USD. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for the largest share (22%) of the total global cost of land degradation. Only about 38% of the cost of land degradation due to LUCC - which accounts for 78% of the US$300 billion loss – is borne by land users and the remaining share (62%) is borne by consumers of ecosystem services off the farm. The results in this volume indicate that reversing land degradation trends makes both economic sense, and has multiple social and environmental benefits. On average, one US dollar investment into restoration of degraded land returns five US dollars. The findings of the country case studies call for increased investments into the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands, including through such institutional and policy measures as strengthening community participation for sustainable land management, enhancing government effectiveness and rule of law, improving access to markets and rural services, and securing land tenure. The assessment in this volume has been conducted at a time when there is an elevated interest in private land investments and when global efforts to achieve sustainable development objectives have intensified. In this regard, the results of this volume can contribute significantly to the ongoing policy debate and efforts to design strategies for achieving sustainable development goals and related efforts to address land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

Environmental Degradation in Asia

Author : Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031121120
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Degradation in Asia written by Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book focuses on environmental degradation in Asian countries including land degradation and soil erosion. The land degradation covers assessing environmental degradation using geospatial technology, land use land cover mapping, environmental and anthropogenic degradation, assessment of land degradation vulnerability, evaluation of the impact of earthquake and the environmental control of the sand dunes. It also addresses the soil degradation and environmental pollution and presents several case studies such as tectonic activity and erosion, assessment of aircraft sound, soil degradation assessment for the arid territories, soil pollution, waste engine oil contamination, soil degradation, soil erosion modelling, land use and land cover change and its effect on soil erosion changes. Additionally, the book discusses the impact of climate change, and human activities including urban environmental quality, air pollution and the impact of armed conflict on the environment. Moreover, topics such as vegetation degradation including forest changes, hydrological and agricultural drought are presented. The book includes authors and scientists from Egypt, Iraq, Iran, India, Mongolia, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Republic of Kazakhstan, USA, Turkey, South Africa, Italy, China, Malaysia, Poland and Russia. Graduate students, researchers, engineers, policy planners, policymakers and stockholders could benefit from the information and the knowledge in this book.

Overview of land degradation neutrality (LDN) in Europe and Central Asia

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251354928
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)

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Book Synopsis Overview of land degradation neutrality (LDN) in Europe and Central Asia by : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Download or read book Overview of land degradation neutrality (LDN) in Europe and Central Asia written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land degradation neutrality (LDN) has been defined by the Parties to the Convention as: A state whereby the amount and quality of land resources, necessary to support ecosystem functions and services and enhance food security, remains stable or increases within specified temporal and spatial scales and ecosystems. The present report is an overview of the status of land degradation neutrality (LDN) in the region including a national overview for the 17 programme countries.

Remote Sensing of Above Ground Biomass

Author : Lalit Kumar
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039212095
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (392 download)

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Book Synopsis Remote Sensing of Above Ground Biomass by : Lalit Kumar

Download or read book Remote Sensing of Above Ground Biomass written by Lalit Kumar and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Above ground biomass has been listed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as one of the five most prominent, visible, and dynamic terrestrial carbon pools. The increased awareness of the impacts of climate change has seen a burgeoning need to consistently assess carbon stocks to combat carbon sequestration. An accurate estimation of carbon stocks and an understanding of the carbon sources and sinks can aid the improvement and accuracy of carbon flux models, an important pre-requisite of climate change impact projections. Based on 15 research topics, this book demonstrates the role of remote sensing in quantifying above ground biomass (forest, grass, woodlands) across varying spatial and temporal scales. The innovative application areas of the book include algorithm development and implementation, accuracy assessment, scaling issues (local–regional–global biomass mapping), and the integration of microwaves (i.e. LiDAR), along with optical sensors, forest biomass mapping, rangeland productivity and abundance (grass biomass, density, cover), bush encroachment biomass, and seasonal and long-term biomass monitoring.

Multisensor Data Fusion and Machine Learning for Environmental Remote Sensing

Author : Ni-Bin Chang
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351650637
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Multisensor Data Fusion and Machine Learning for Environmental Remote Sensing by : Ni-Bin Chang

Download or read book Multisensor Data Fusion and Machine Learning for Environmental Remote Sensing written by Ni-Bin Chang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last few years the scientific community has realized that obtaining a better understanding of interactions between natural systems and the man-made environment across different scales demands more research efforts in remote sensing. An integrated Earth system observatory that merges surface-based, air-borne, space-borne, and even underground sensors with comprehensive and predictive capabilities indicates promise for revolutionizing the study of global water, energy, and carbon cycles as well as land use and land cover changes. The aim of this book is to present a suite of relevant concepts, tools, and methods of integrated multisensor data fusion and machine learning technologies to promote environmental sustainability. The process of machine learning for intelligent feature extraction consists of regular, deep, and fast learning algorithms. The niche for integrating data fusion and machine learning for remote sensing rests upon the creation of a new scientific architecture in remote sensing science that is designed to support numerical as well as symbolic feature extraction managed by several cognitively oriented machine learning tasks at finer scales. By grouping a suite of satellites with similar nature in platform design, data merging may come to help for cloudy pixel reconstruction over the space domain or concatenation of time series images over the time domain, or even both simultaneously. Organized in 5 parts, from Fundamental Principles of Remote Sensing; Feature Extraction for Remote Sensing; Image and Data Fusion for Remote Sensing; Integrated Data Merging, Data Reconstruction, Data Fusion, and Machine Learning; to Remote Sensing for Environmental Decision Analysis, the book will be a useful reference for graduate students, academic scholars, and working professionals who are involved in the study of Earth systems and the environment for a sustainable future. The new knowledge in this book can be applied successfully in many areas of environmental science and engineering.

International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2016

Author : Harald Ginzky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319425080
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2016 written by Harald Ginzky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy includes an important discussion on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that are the basis for the post-2015 development agenda up to the year 2030; the Yearbook focuses in particular on Goal 15, which includes achieving a “land degradation-neutral world.” It also provides a comprehensive and highly informative overview of the latest developments at the international level, important cross-disciplinary issues and different approaches in national legislation. The book is divided into four sections. Forewords by internationally renowned academics and politicians are followed by an analysis of the content and structure of the Sustainable Development Goals with regard to soil and land as well as the scientific methods for their implementation. In addition, all relevant international regimes are discussed, including the latest developments, such as the decisions made at the 12th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The next section deals with cross-disciplinary issues relevant to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals like the right to food, land tenure, migration and the “Economics of Land Degradation” initiative. The last section gathers reports on the development of national legislation from various nations and supra-national entities, including Brazil, China, the European Union, Mongolia, Namibia and the United States. Addressing this broad range of key topics, the book offers an indispensible tool for all academics, legislators and policymakers working in this field. The “International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy” is a book series that discusses the central questions of law and politics with regard to the protection and sustainable management of soil and land – at the international, national and regional level.

ICEL 2019

Author : Sony Sukmawan
Publisher : European Alliance for Innovation
ISBN 13 : 1631901885
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book ICEL 2019 written by Sony Sukmawan and published by European Alliance for Innovation. This book was released on with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are delighted to introduce the proceedings of the first edition of the 2019 International Conference on Advances in Education, Humanities, and Language (ICEL). The aim of ICEL (International Conference on Advances in Humanities, Education and Language) is to provide a platform for researchers, professionals, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Education, humanities, and Language. The theme of ICEL 2019 was “Mainstreaming the Influences on Higher Order of Thinking Skills in Humanities, Education, and Language in Industrial Revolution 4.0”. The technical program of ICEL 2019 consisted of 77 full papers, including invited papers in oral presentation sessions at the main conference tracks. Aside from the high quality technical paper presentations, the technical program also featured six keynote speeches, Hamamah, Ph.D (Univeritas Brawijaya, Indonesia), Prof. Dr. Nuraihan binti Mat Daud (UIIM, Malaysia), Dr. Edith Dunn (Conservator/Cultural Specialist, USA), Prof. Yoshihiko -Sugimura (university of Mizaki, Japan), Prof. Park Yoonho (Sunchon National University, Korea) and Prof. Su Keh Bow (Soochow University, Taiwan). We strongly believe that ICEL conference provides a good forum for all researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss various advances that are relevant to education, humanities, and language. We also expect that the future ICEL conference will be as successful and stimulating, as indicated by the contributions presented in this volume

Remote Sensing of Hydrometeorological Hazards

Author : George P. Petropoulos
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351650971
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Remote Sensing of Hydrometeorological Hazards by : George P. Petropoulos

Download or read book Remote Sensing of Hydrometeorological Hazards written by George P. Petropoulos and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme weather and climate change aggravate the frequency and magnitude of disasters. Facing atypical and more severe events, existing early warning and response systems become inadequate both in scale and scope. Earth Observation (EO) provides today information at global, regional and even basin scales related to agrometeorological hazards. This book focuses on drought, flood, frost, landslides, and storms/cyclones and covers different applications of EO data used from prediction to mapping damages as well as recovery for each category. It explains the added value of EO technology in comparison with conventional techniques applied today through many case studies.

The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

Author : Nathalie Pettorelli
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191512729
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index by : Nathalie Pettorelli

Download or read book The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index written by Nathalie Pettorelli and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index), a simple numerical indicator and powerful tool that can be used to assess spatio-temporal changes in green vegetation. The NDVI opens the possibility of addressing questions on scales inaccessible to ground-based methods alone; it is mostly freely available with global coverage over several decades. This novel text provides an authoritative overview of the principles and possible applications of the NDVI in ecology, environmental and wildlife management, and conservation. NDVI data can provide valuable information about temporal and spatial changes in vegetation distribution, productivity, and dynamics; allowing monitoring of habitat degradation and fragmentation, or assessment of the ecological effects of climatic disasters such as drought or fire. The NDVI has also provided ecologists with a promising way to couple vegetation with animal distribution, abundance, movement, survival and reproductive parameters. Over the last few decades, numerous studies have highlighted the potential key role of satellite data and the NDVI in macroecology, plant ecology, animal population dynamics, environmental monitoring, habitat selection and habitat use studies, and paleoecology. The chapters are organised around two sections: the first detailing vegetation indices and the NDVI, the principles behind the NDVI, its correlation with climate, the available NDVI datasets, and the possible complications and errors associated with the use of this satellite-based vegetation index. The second section discusses the possible applications of the NDVI in ecology, environmental and wildlife management, and conservation.

Remote Sensing of Geomorphology

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0444641785
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Remote Sensing of Geomorphology written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remote Sensing of Geomorphology, Volume 23, discusses the new range of remote-sensing techniques (lidar, structure from motion photogrammetry, advanced satellite platforms) that has led to a dramatic increase in terrain information, and as such provided new opportunities for a better understanding of surface morphology and related Earth surface processes. As several papers have been published (including paper reviews and special issues) on this topic, this book summarizes the major advances in remote sensing techniques for the analysis of Earth surface morphology and processes, also highlighting future challenges. Useful for MSc and PhD students, this book is also ideal for any scientists that want to have a single volume guideline to help them develop new ideas. In addition, technicians and private and public sectors working on remote sensing will find the information useful to their initiatives. Provides a useful guideline for MSc and PhD students, scientists, technicians, and land planners on the use of remote sensing in geomorphology Includes applications on specific case studies that highlight issues and benefits of one technique compared to others Presents future trends in remote sensing and geomorphology

International Journal of Advanced Remote Sensing and GIS

Author : Cloud Publications
Publisher : Cloud Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3465 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Journal of Advanced Remote Sensing and GIS written by Cloud Publications and published by Cloud Publications. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 3465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Journal of Advanced Remote Sensing and GIS (IJARSG, ISSN 2320 – 0243) is an open-access peer-reviewed scholarly journal publishes original research papers, reviews, case study, case reports, and methodology articles in all aspects of Remote Sensing and GIS including associated fields. This Journal commits to working for quality and transparency in its publishing by following standard Publication Ethics and Policies.

Remote Sensing for Natural Resources Management & Monitoring

Author : Mahesh Gaur
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9387307468
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Remote Sensing for Natural Resources Management & Monitoring written by Mahesh Gaur and published by Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book attempts to match user need to the level of technology required for management, planning and monitoring of natural resources. It provides clear guidance on the reliability, accuracy and cost of applications. Editors believe that this endeavour shall provide a valuable scientific basis to students and researchers to address the future challenges in natural resources monitoring and management. Accurate inventory, assessment and periodic monitoring of resources will enable the policy makers to keep an eye on optimal utilization of resources and development process to take timely interventions. We further hope this book will be a valuable reference and provide practical guidance for all who work towards the goal of the sustainable and judicious use of resources.

Computer vision in plant phenotyping and agriculture

Author : Valerio Giuffrida
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832510655
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Computer vision in plant phenotyping and agriculture written by Valerio Giuffrida and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in remote sensing: 2022

Author : Jane Southworth
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832547079
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Women in remote sensing: 2022 written by Jane Southworth and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vegetation Monitoring

Author : Caryl L. Elzinga
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780788148378
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Vegetation Monitoring written by Caryl L. Elzinga and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography documents literature addressing the design and implementation of vegetation monitoring. It provides resources managers, ecologists, and scientists access to the great volume of literature addressing many aspects of vegetation monitoring: planning and objective setting, choosing vegetation attributes to measure, sampling design, sampling methods, statistical and graphical analysis, and communication of results. Over half of the 1400 references have been annotated. Keywords pertaining to the type of monitoring or method are included with each bibliographic entry. Keyword index.