ADVANCES IN REMOTE SENSING FOR LAND DEGRADATION

By LINDA THOMAS

SETTING THE SCENE: PRINCIPLES IN REMOTE SENSING AND SPATIAL SCENE MODELLING FOR LAND DEGRADATION ASSESSMENT COUPLED HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM APPROACHES TO DESERTIFICATION: LINKING PEOPLE TO PIXELS REMOTE SENSING BASED ASSESSMENT OF BIOPHYSICAL INDICATORS FOR LAND DEGRADATION AND DESERTIFICATION INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING TO CHARACTERISE PROCESSES OF LAND DEGRADATION AND DESERTIFICATION FOR POLICY SUPPORT ESTIMATING AREA-AVERAGED SURFACE FLUXES OVER CONTRASTED AGRICULTURAL PATCHWORK IN A SEMI-ARID REGION PART THE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: STRATEGIES FOR LARGE AREA MAPPING POTENTIAL OF LONG TIME SERIES OF FAPAR PRODUCTS FOR ASSESSING AND MONITORING LAND SURFACE CHANGES: EXAMPLES IN EUROPE AND THE SAHEL INTER-COMPARISON OF MEDOKADS AND NOAA/NASA PATHFINDER AVHRR LAND NDVI TIME SERIES CHANGE DETECTION IN SYRIA’S RANGELANDS USING LONG-TERM AVHRR DATA (1982–2004) ‘HOT SPOT’ ASSESSMENT OF LAND COVER CHANGE IN THE CWANA REGION USING AVHRR SATELLITE IMAGERY FUZZY INTEGRATION OF SATELLITE DATA FOR DETECTING ENVIRONMENTAL ANOMALIES ACROSS AFRICA THE SPATIAL UNCERTAINTY OF DESICCATION IN THE WEST AFRICAN SAHEL AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR LAND DEGRADATION ONOGOING DESERTIFICATION PROCESSES IN THE SAHELIAN BELT OF WEST AFRICA: AN EVIDENCE FROM THE RAIN-USE EFFICIENCY TAKING A CLOSER LOOK: BIOPHYSICAL INDICATORS OF VEGETATION AND SOILS VEGETATION COVER AND BIOMASS ALONG CLIMATIC GRADIENTS: THE SYNERGY OF REMOTE SENSING AND FIELD STUDIES IN TWO EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SITES MODELLING SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING DATA TO DELINEATE PATTERNS OF PLANT DIVERSITY IN THE SAHEL ZONE OF BURKINA FASO RETRIEVING RANGELAND VEGETATION CHARACTERISTICS THROUGH CONSTRAINED INVERSE REFLECTANCE MODELLING OF EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITE IMAGERY USING REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY AND LANDSAT DATA TO ASSESS SOIL INORGANIC CARBON IN THE JUDEAN DESERT (ISRAEL) SIMULATING MULTI-ANGLE IMAGING SPECTRO-RADIOMETER (MISR) SAMPLING AND RETRIEVAL OF SOIL SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND COMPOSITION CHANGES USING A BI-DIRECTIONAL SOIL SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE MODEL MAPPING LAND DEGRADATION RISK: POTENTIAL OF THE NON-EVAPORATIVE FRACTION USING ASTER AND MODIS DATA STORIES BEHIND PIXELS: PROCESS-BASED ASSESSMENT OF GEOSPATIAL DATA GEOMATICS-BASED CHARACTERIZATION OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL TRENDS IN HETEROGENEOUS MEDITERRANEAN RANGELANDS OF NORTHERN GREECE INTEGRATING GPS TECHNOLOGIES IN DYNAMIC SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELS TO MONITOR GRAZING HABITS IN DRY RANGELANDS SATELLITE IMAGE PROCESSING AND GEO-STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSING LAND DEGRADATION AROUND WATERING POINTS IN THE UST-URT PLATEAU, KAZAKHSTAN LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS USING MULTI-SCALE SEGMENTATION AND OBJECT-ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION LAND USE AND CARBON STOCK CAPACITY IN SLASH-AND-BURN ECOSYSTEMS IN MOUNTAINOUS MAINLANDS OF LAOS