Land Change Science
Observing, Monitoring and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth’s Surface
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Beschreibung
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.
This is the most organized effort made to understand the dominant force that has been responsible for changing the Earth’s biosphere.
Audience: This publication will be of interest to students, scientists, and policy makers.
The study of land use is needed to provide scientific underpinning for improved land use decision making
Autor*in
Garik Gutman
Themen in »Land Change Science«
Monitoring biodiversity biosphere climate desertification global change human ecology land degradation landscape ecology remote sensing remote sensing of the environment satellite