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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Marini, Alberto (Editor), Talbi, Mohamed (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security,
• Subjects: Geography.; Geographical information systems.; Remote sensing.; Physical geography.; Climate change.; Physical Geography.; Climate Change.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.

This work becomes with methodological rigor a part of the innovative proposals for the characterization of the areas at risk of desertification. The complexity of the phenomenon of desertification, which involves extended surfaces in all continents, is one of the most alarming processes of the envir...