Use of Satellite and In-Situ Data to Improve Sustainability

Preface.- Part 1. Large-Scale Weather Disasters: Early Detection & Monitoring From Space & In Situ Data.- Monitoring Droughts and Impacts on Crop Yield in UKRAINE from Weather and Satellite Data.- Early Detection and Monitoring Droughts form NOAA Environmental Satellite.- Flood Monitoring from SAR Data.- Satellite Rainfall Information for Flood Preparedness and Response.- Monitoring Severe Weather in UKRAINE with Satellite Data.- Daily Fire Occurrence in Ukraine from 2002 to 2008.- Satellite-Based Systems for Agro-Meteorological Monitoring.- Part 2. Environment and Food Security: Diagnosis and Prediction.- Monitoring Droughts and Pastures Productivity in MONGOLIA Using NOAA-AVHRR Data.- Satellite-Derived Information on Snow Cover for Agriculture Applications in Ukraine.- Grain Yield Prediction in Russia.-Satellite-Based Crop Production Monitoring in Ukraine and Regional Food Security.- New Regression Models for Prediction of Grain Yield Anomalies from Satellite-based Vegetation Health Indices.- Phytosanitary Situation of Agrocenosis in Ukraine and New Technologies for Monitoring Harmful Organisms.- Part 3. Climate Change, Environment and Socioeconomics.- 30-Year Land Surface Trend from AVHRR-based Global Vegetation Health Data.- Global Warming, Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation, Thermohaline Catastrophe and their Impact on Climate of the North Atlantic Region.- Global Warming and Possible Changes in the Recurrences of Grain Crops Anomalies.- Regime Shifts in the Atmosphere and their Relationship to Abrupt Ocean Changes.- Glacier Degradation from GIS and Remote Sensing Data.- ENSO Impact on Vegetation.- Bio-Climatic Potential of Russia and Climate Change.-Part 4. Marine Ecosystem, Land Cover, Atmosphere & Anthropogenic Activities.-Consequences of Land and Marine Ecosystems Interaction for the Black Sea Coastal Zone.- Utilizing Satellite Data to Highlight High Ozone Concentration Events During Fire Episodes.- Geomagnetic Disturbances and Seismic Events in the Vrancea Zone from in Situ Data.- First Step towards Monitoring Surface Ozone Dynamics in Ukrainian.-Satellite Monitoring of Nitrogen Oxide Emissions.- Detection of Desertification Zones Using Multi-Year Remote Sensing Data.- Satellite Desertification Monitoring in Sahara.-
Part 5. Satellite & In Situ Long Records for Trend Analysis, Modeling & Monitoring.- Global Vegetation Health: Long-Term Data Records.- Aero-Space Radar On-line Monitoring of Disasters in Ukraine.- Comparison of AVHRR-based Global Data Records.- Merging remote sensing and in situ data for estimation of energy balance components under climate change conditions: Ukrainian steppe zone.- Atmosphere aerosol properties measured with AERONET/PHOTONS sun-photometer over Kyiv during 2008-2009.- Global Distribution of Magnetic Storm Fields and Relativistic Particles Fluxes.- Appendix 1.- Appendix 2.- Appendix 3.- Appendix 4.- Appendix 5.