Desertification and Risk Analysis Using High and Medium Resolution Satellite Data: Training Workshop on Mapping Desertification

by Alberto Marini (Editor), Mohamed Talbi (Editor)

Overview

Results of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Desertification and Risk Analysis Using High and Medium Satellite Data, Tozeur, Tunisia, 9-19 December 2006

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402089367
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/02/2008
Series:	NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

General Aspects of Desertification.- Anthropic Actions And Desertification In Algeria.- Climate Change And The Need For Renewable Energy Sources.- Changes In The Resources Management And Their Environmental Consequences In A Saharan Arid Environment.- Quality Management in Information Systems for Combating Desertification and Dry Lands Management.- Remote Sensing Of Aeolian Dust Production And Distribution.- Space For The Unccd And The Desertwatch Project.- The New Thematic Strategy For Protecting Soils In Europe.- Application of Remote Sensing Techniques to Desertification Mapping.- Aeolian Morphogenesis And Strategy Of Fight Against Desertification In Algeria (Hodna And Zibans Basin).- Estimating Soil Moisture Using Optical and Radar Satellite Remote Sensing Data.- Monitoring Sensitive Areas To Desertification In Sardinia: The Contribute Of The Regional Agrometeorological Service.- Contribution Of SAR Interferometry (From Ers1/2) In The Study Of Aeolian Transport Processes: The Cases Of Niger, Mauritania And Morocco.- Data Bank Of Territorial Spectral Signatures For Sardinia And North Africa.- Geosites And Touristic Development Of The Northwestern Tabular Middle Atlas Of Morocco.- Monitoring Land Degradation in Drylands by Remote Sensing.- Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of a Project to Combat Desertification in Drylands (Case Study in Centre Western Tunisia).- Remote Sensing Technology Applications For Desertification Mapping: A Case Study, Oudia Area, Tunisia.- Sand Dunes Evolution And Desertification In Southeastern Morocco: A New Approach To An Old Problem.- Thematic Mapping Using Quickbird Multispectral Imagery In Oung El-Jemel Area, Tozeur (Sw Tunisia).- Use Of Remote Sensing And Gis For Monitoring Agro-Ecological System In Tunisian Arid Regions (Study Case Of Menzel Habib).- Very High Resolution Satellites.- Vulnerability Of The Lower Sahara And The Human Impact On The Increase Of Desertification (The Case Of Oued Righ And Oued Souf Region).- General Presentation Of The Al Jerid Area In Tozeur, Tunisia, As Test Area In The Arid Landscapes For The Fight Against Desertification.- Mapping Desertification, A High Education Course In Remote Sensing.