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 map** 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