Selected Satellite Images of Our Changing Environment

Livre Livre Selected Satellite Images of Our Changing Environment eng 2003 author Singh Ashbindu author Fosnight Eugene author Ernste Mark author Giese Kim author Peduzzi Pascal 0000-0003-0665-9490 43229 author Smith Jane author Hossain Nazmul author Peneva Elitsa author Raghavan Anil author Partow Hassan 49406 author Prince Sandra author Strub Nicole author Del Pietro Dominique 122938 author Lambrechts Christian author Poppen Michael author Lamb Rynn 141 92-807-2272-5 http://na.unep.net/siouxfalls/publications/selected/Selected.pdf Many countries face multiple challenges arising from rapid degradation of critical natural resources, and many other environmental constraints. Unsustainable increase in the pressure on available resources owing to a rapidly burgeoning human population. Since the launch of the first Meteorological Satellite in 1960, satellite remote sensing has emerged to be a cost-effective method for conducting time-series, large-scale observations of the Earth's systems. Satellite images can be used to map the entire world and to generate a number of global datasets needed for various thematic applications. This publication directly addresses these issues by focus- ing on a number of “hot spots” (i.e., locations that have undergone very rapid environmental change) by using state-of-the-art remote sensing and spatial data integration techniques to analyze and document these changes over a 30-year period (1972–2001). The hotspots cover major and diverse themes across the world, ranging from forest cover change in Rondonia (South America), urban sprawl in Las Vegas (North America), drying of Lake Chad (Africa), demise of wetlands in Mesopotamia (West Asia), emerging urban growth centers in Asia, to the ice shelf collapse in Polar regions. Remote sensing Satellite images Global environmental changes Deforestation Dessiccation Urbanisation Unsustainable development Dewey 333.7-333.9 Dewey 910 Sioux Falls UNEP, USGS, NASA 18 Institut des sciences de l'environnement 0DB 120 Département de géographie et environnement T2 false 859 Global Resource Information Database (GRID) 939 Pôle/Institut Gouvernance de l'environnement et développement territorial (PI-GEDT) fdbed2dd-5fb2-482e-85a7-76d313da7f09 Book (Published version) Public Selected satellite images of our changing environment.pdf 13690315 application/pdf openAccess Centres et instituts / Institut des sciences de l'environnement Faculté des sciences de la société / Département de géographie et environnement

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