Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Landsat satellites --- Soil erosion --- Vegetation mapping --- Plant mapping --- Plants --- Cartography --- Accelerated erosion --- Soils --- Erosion --- Satellites, Landsat --- Scientific satellites --- Remote sensing --- Mapping --- Geology. Earth sciences --- Ardèche (Dept.)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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.

Vegetation mapping --- Plants --- Plant ecology --- Remote sensing. --- Botany --- Ecology --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Plant mapping --- Cartography --- Mapping --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Environmental Geography. --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Environmental monitoring. --- Environmental geography. --- Geography --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Environmental quality --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Pollution --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Measurement --- Monitoring

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Flore. Botanic determination guides --- Warwickshire --- 57.087.2 --- 581.9 <41 WARWICKSHIRE> --- Graphic recording techniques. Charting, mapping techniques (in biology) --- Geographic botany. Plant geography (phytogeography). Floras. Geographic distribution of plants--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--WARWICKSHIRE --- BRI British Isles --- British Isles --- England --- autecology --- bryophytes --- checklists --- distribution maps --- eco history --- flora statistics --- flora survey --- floristics --- geology --- habitats --- history of botany --- land use --- pedology --- physical factors --- regio survey --- 581.9 <41 WARWICKSHIRE> Geographic botany. Plant geography (phytogeography). Floras. Geographic distribution of plants--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--WARWICKSHIRE --- 57.087.2 Graphic recording techniques. Charting, mapping techniques (in biology) --- Botany --- Phytogeography --- Vegetation mapping --- Plant mapping --- Plants --- Cartography --- Botanical geography --- Geobotany --- Geographical distribution of plants --- Plant distribution --- Plant geography --- Plant species --- Biogeography --- Disjunct plants --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Maps --- Data processing --- Mapping --- Geographical distribution --- Floristic botany