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http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC56818| Title: | Land Degradation Addressed by Satellite Based Long Term Vegetation Phenological Trends over Africa: Preliminary Results |
| Authors: | IVITS-WASSER Eva; CHERLET Michael; SOMMER Stefan; MEHL Wolfgang |
| Citation: | Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISBN 978-0-932913-13-5 |
| Publisher: | Omni-Press |
| Publication Year: | 2009 |
| JRC N°: | JRC56818 |
| URI: | http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC56818 |
| Type: | Articles in periodicals and books |
| Abstract: | Land degradation is the reduction of the capacity of land to sustain its ecosystem functions and services that support society and development. In this study we derive phenological indices from time series of Spot VEGETATON images. For the African continent, we illustrate that such metrics show observable trends that can help explaining the state and evolution of vegetative land cover due to climatic and/or anthropogenic influences and can be considered a large scale proxy adding to assessment of land degradation |
| JRC Directorate: | Sustainable Resources |
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