Land degradation is caused by multiple forces, including extreme weather conditions particularly drought, and human activities that pollute or degrade the quality of soils and land utility negatively affecting food production, livelihoods, and the production and provision of other ecosystem goods an
Geospatial technologies for land degradation assessment and management
โ Scribed by Dwivedi, R. S
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 431
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Content: 1 An Introduction to Geospatial Technology. 2 Passive Remote Sensing. 3 Active Remote Sensing. 4 Digital Image Processing. 5 An Introduction to Land Degradation. 6 Water Erosion. 7 Wind Erosion. 8 Soil Salinization and Alkalinization. 9 Soil Acidification. 10 Waterlogging. 11 Land Degradation due to Mining, Aquaculture, and Shifting Cultivation. 12 Drought. 13 Land Degradation Information Systems.
โฆ Subjects
Soil conservation;Remote sensing;Soil erosion;Remote sensing
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