Desertification and risk analysis using high and medium resolution satellite data: Training Workshop on Mapping Desertification, Results of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Desertification and Risk Analysis Using High and Medium Satellite Data, Tozeur, Tunisia, 9-19 December 2

This publication collects the results of a practical experience of survey, through the direct control of satellite images from high to medium resolution, over areas subjected to desertification problems. The problems of the local population are closely tied to the equilibrium in the management of the territory, which is compromised by the difficulties of maintaining traditional methodologies of management. The new survey technologies, based on the Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System, allow analyzing the details of the present situation and point out the dynamism of the phenomena and the impacts with anthropogenic activities. Training has been carried out in the Tozeur area, in central Tunisia, where participants had the chance to analyze on the field a series of different aspects. It has also been possible to discuss similar experiences in distant territories and the importance of the physical processes of desertification. The description of the effects of desertification in arid landsThe feeling about desertification from North African people The modern techniques to map from high resolution satellite data INDICE: From the contents Mapping Desertification, A High Education CourseIn Remote Sensing .- Tozeur Declaration.- Cartographie des paysages arides pour la lutte contre la désertification: La région de Tozeur.- General Aspects Of Desertification.- Anthropic Actions And Desertification In Algeria.- ClimateChange And The Need For Renewable Energy Sources.- Changes In The Resources Management And Their Environmental Consequences In A Saharan Arid Environment: The Case Of The Jeffara Plain, The Nefzaoua Oases And The Sehib Area In Southern Tunisia.- Quality Management In Information Systems For Combating Desertification And Dry Lands Management.- Remote Sensing Of Aeolian Dust Production And Distribution.- Space For The Unccd And The Desertwatch Project.- The New Thematic Strategy For Protecting Soils In Europe.- Application Of Remote Sensing Techniques To Desertification Mapping.- Aeolian Morphogenesis And Strategy Of Fight Against Desertification In Algeria (Hodna And Zibans Basin).

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-8936-7
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 258
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés