TY  - BOOK
TI  - Land Degradation Assessment with Earth Observation
SN  - 9783036542270
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Basel
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - Research & information: general
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Amu Darya delta (ADD)
KW  - archetypes
KW  - arid and semi-arid areas
KW  - aridity index
KW  - AVHRR
KW  - bfast
KW  - BFAST
KW  - Botswana
KW  - breakpoint analysis
KW  - breakpoints and timeseries analysis
KW  - browning
KW  - central Asia
KW  - developing countries
KW  - drivers
KW  - drought
KW  - drought adaptation
KW  - drought impacts
KW  - drought index
KW  - drought vulnerability
KW  - Earth observation
KW  - East Africa
KW  - ecosystem structural change
KW  - Gaofen satellite
KW  - GEE
KW  - geographically weighted regression (GWR)
KW  - Google Earth Engine
KW  - greenhouse gas emissions
KW  - greening
KW  - gully mapping
KW  - high temporal resolution
KW  - irrigated systems
KW  - Kenya
KW  - Kobresia pygmaea community
KW  - Kyrgyzstan
KW  - land cover
KW  - land degradation
KW  - land degradation neutrality
KW  - land productivity
KW  - land surface phenology
KW  - land use
KW  - land use-land cover
KW  - Landsat
KW  - Landsat time series analysis
KW  - machine learning
KW  - Mann-Kendall
KW  - mining development
KW  - MODIS
KW  - monitoring and reporting
KW  - n/a
KW  - NDVI
KW  - Niger River basin
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
KW  - pastures
KW  - precipitation
KW  - random forest
KW  - REDD+
KW  - reference levels
KW  - remote sensing
KW  - remote sensing index
KW  - RWEQ
KW  - salinity index
KW  - salinization
KW  - salinized land degradation index (SDI)
KW  - satellite imagery
KW  - satellite-based aridity index
KW  - savannah
KW  - SDG
KW  - self-organizing maps
KW  - semi-arid areas
KW  - semi-arid environment
KW  - Sen's slope
KW  - Sentinel-1
KW  - Sentinel-2
KW  - Sentinel-2 images
KW  - shrub encroachment
KW  - slangbos
KW  - Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI)
KW  - soil organic carbon
KW  - South Africa
KW  - spatial distribution
KW  - spatial heterogeneity
KW  - spatial-temporal variation
KW  - standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index
KW  - support vector machines
KW  - sustainable land management programmes
KW  - Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
KW  - TI-NDVI
KW  - time series
KW  - trend analysis
KW  - Uganda
KW  - unmanned aerial vehicle
KW  - Vegetation Condition Index (VCI)
KW  - vegetation index
KW  - vegetation resilience
KW  - vegetation trends
KW  - vegetation-precipitation relationship
KW  - wind erosion modeling
KW  - Xishuangbanna
N1  - Open Access
N2  - This Special Issue (SI) on "Land Degradation Assessment with Earth Observation" comprises 17 original research papers with a focus on land degradation in arid, semiarid and dry-subhumid areas (i.e., desertification) in addition to temperate rangelands, grasslands, woodlands and the humid tropics. The studies cover different spatial, spectral and temporal scales and employ a wealth of different optical and radar sensors. Some studies incorporate time-series analysis techniques that assess the general trend of vegetation or the timing and duration of the reduction in biological productivity caused by land degradation. As anticipated from the latest trend in Earth Observation (EO) literature, some studies utilize the cloud-computing infrastructure of Google Earth Engine to cope with the unprecedented volume of data involved in current methodological approaches. This SI clearly demonstrates the ever-increasing relevance of EO technologies when it comes to assessing and monitoring land degradation. With the recently published IPCC Reports informing us of the severe impacts and risks to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and the ecosystem services they provide, the EO scientific community has a clear obligation to increase its efforts to address any remaining gaps-some of which have been identified in this SI-and produce highly accurate and relevant land-degradation assessment and monitoring tools
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/84553
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/5537
ER  -