Description
Earth Observation of Ecosystem Services
Earth Observation of Global Changes Series
Coordinators: Alcaraz-Segura Domingo, Bella Carlos Marcelo Di, Straschnoy Julieta Veronica
Language: EnglishSubjects for Earth Observation of Ecosystem Services:
Keywords
Photochemical Reflectance Index; Energy Balance; Ecosystem services; Remote Sensing; Earth observation; Maximum NDVI; Provisioning services; Ecosystem Services Assessment; Regulating services; NDVI Dynamic; Carbon cycle; Object Based Image Analysis; Biodiversity conservation; LST; ANPP; NDVI Value; Quantify Ecosystem Services; SUHI Effect; MODIS Snow Product; Remote Sensing Data; MODIS Product; UHI; Monitor Snow Cover; Hydrologic Model; Meris Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index; National Park Networks; Peak NDVI; MODIS Snow; Land Cover Type Classification; 57W 54W 51W 48W 45W
Publication date: 10-2017
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 11-2013
520 p. · 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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A balanced review of differing approaches based on remote sensing tools and methods to assess and monitor biodiversity, carbon and water cycles, and the energy balance of terrestrial ecosystem. Earth Observation of Ecosystem Services highlights the advantages Earth observation technologies offer for quantifying and monitoring multiple ecosystem functions and services. It provides a multidisciplinary reference that expressly covers the use of remote sensing for quantifying and monitoring multiple ecosystem services.
Rather than exhaustively cover all possible ecosystem services, this book takes a global look at the most relevant remote sensing approaches to estimate key ecosystem services from satellite data. Structured in four main sections, it covers carbon cycle, biodiversity, water cycle, and energy balance. Each section contains a review of conceptual and empirical methods, techniques, and case studies linking remotely sensed data to the biophysical variables and ecosystem functions associated with key ecosystem services.
The book identifies relevant issues and challenges of assessment, presents cutting-edge sensing techniques, uses globally implemented tools to quantify ecosystem functions, and presents examples of successful monitoring programs. Covering recent developments undertaken on the global and national stage from Earth observation satellite data, it includes valuable lessons and recommendations and novel ways to improve current global monitoring systems. The book delineates the use of Earth observation data so that it can be used to quantify, map, value, and manage the valuable goods and services that ecosystems provide to societies around the world.
Introduction. Ecosystem Services Related to Biodiversity Conservation. Ecosystem Services Related to the Carbon Cycle. Ecosystem Services Related to the Water Cycle. Ecosystem Services Related to the Land-Surface Energy Balance. Challenges and Conclusions.