Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface (Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing)

Gutman, Garik (Editor) / Janetos, Anthony C. (Editor) / Justice, Christopher O. (Editor) / Moran, Emilio F. (Editor) / Mustard, John F. (Editor) / Rindfuss, Ronald R. (Editor) / Skole, David (Editor) / Turner II, Billy Lee (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9400743068 / ISBN 13: 9789400743069

Editore: Springer, 2012

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• Titolo: Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface (Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing)
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9400743068
• ISBN 13: 9789400743069
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Brand New

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Riassunto

<p>This volume is a synthesis of the NASA funded work under the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program. Hundreds of scientists have worked for the past eight years to understand one of the most important forces that is changing our planet-human impacts on land cover, that is land use. Its contributions span the natural and the social sciences, and apply state-of-the-art techniques for understanding the earth: satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems, modeling, and advanced computing. It brings together detailed case studies, regional analyses, and globally scaled mapping efforts. </p><p>This is the most organized effort made to understand the dominant force that has been responsible for changing the Earth’s biosphere.</p><p>Audience: This publication will be of interest to students, scientists, and policy makers.</p><p>This volume includes a CD-ROM containing full color images of a selection of illustrations which are printed in black-and-white in the book.</p>

Contenuti

LCLUC Concepts; National and International Programs.- The Development of the International Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC) Research Program and Its Links to NASA’s Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Initiative.- The NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change Program.- Meeting the Goals of GOFC.- Observations of LCLUC: Case Studies.- Forest Change and Human Driving Forces in Central America.- Pattern to Process in the Amazon Region.- Towards an Operational Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa.- Land Use and Land Cover Change in Southeast Asia.- Northern Eurasia.- Land Cover Disturbances and Feedbacks to the Climate System in Canada and Alaska.- Mapping Desertification in Southern Africa.- Woodland Expansion in US Grasslands.- Arid Land Agriculture in Northeastern Syria.- Changes in Land Cover and Land Use in the Pearl River Delta, China.- Cross Cutting Themes, Impacts and Consequences.- The Effects of Land Use and Management on the Global Carbon Cycle.- Land Use and Hydrology.- Land Use Change and Biodiversity.- Land Use and Climate.- Urbanization.- Land Use and Fires.- Land Cover / Use and Population.- Methodological Issues, Modeling.- Trends in Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring.- Linking Pixels and People.- Modeling Land Use and Land Cover Change.- Synthesis and Lessons: Biophysical Change and Beyond.- Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Pathways and Impacts.- Integrated Land-Change Science and Its Relevance to the Human Sciences.- Research Directions in Land-Cover and Land-Use Change.