Land Resources Monitoring, Modeling, and Mapping with Remote Sensing

With more than 100 leading global contributors, this book is the most comprehensive documentation of the scientific and methodological advances that have taken place in understanding remote sensing data, methods, and applications over last 50 years. In a very practical way the book demonstrates the experience, utility, methods and models used in

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A volume in the three-volume Remote Sensing Handbook series, Land Resources Monitoring, Modeling, and Mapping with Remote Sensing documents the scientific and methodological advances that have taken place during the last 50 years. The other two volumes in the series are Remotely Sensed Data Characterization, Classification, and Accuracies, and Remote Sensing of Water Resources, Disasters, and Urban Studies.



In true handbook style, the chapters in the volume have been carefully selected, organized, and designed to be self-contained so that you can focus on a chapter and read it through without having to be overly dependent on other chapters. This volume provides comprehensive theoretical and practical coverage of remote sensing of land resources that include vegetation and biomass, agricultural croplands, rangelands, phenology and food security, forests, biodiversity, ecology, land use/land cover, carbon, and soils.



Highlights include:










Global terrestrial carbon and carbon budgets



Precision farming



Agricultural systems studies and soil studies



Global croplands, agricultural croplands, and rangelands



Food security analysis



Biodiversity



Land use and land cover mapping



Measuring photosynthesis from space



Vegetation characterization and above ground biomass measurements and modeling



Hyperspectral remote sensing



Ecological studies



Tropical forest characterization



Habitat mapping and monitoring






In a very practical way, the book demonstrates the experience, utility, methods, and models used in studying a wide array of land applications. Considered magnum opus on the subject, the three-volume Remote Sensing Handbook is edited by Dr. Prasad S. Thenkabail, a renowned interna