Overview
- The study of land use is needed to provide scientific underpinning for improved land use decision making
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing (RDIP, volume 6)
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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.
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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LCLUC Concepts; National and International Programs
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Observations of LCLUC: Case Studies
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Cross Cutting Themes, Impacts and Consequences
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Land Change Science
Book Subtitle: Observing, Monitoring and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth’s Surface
Editors: Garik Gutman, Anthony C. Janetos, Christopher O. Justice, Emilio F. Moran, John F. Mustard, Ronald R. Rindfuss, David Skole, Billy Lee Turner, … Mark A. Cochrane
Series Title: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2562-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4306-9Published: 24 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2562-4Published: 11 December 2007
Series ISSN: 1567-3200
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1842
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 459
Number of Illustrations: 159 b/w illustrations
Topics: Physical Geography, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Environmental Physics