Ulf Helldén
Professor emeritus
Desertification-A global monitoring approach
Författare
Summary, in English
The study so far was carried out within the frames of the Integrated Project DeSurvey (A Surveillance System for Assessing and Monitoring Desertification; 2005-2010), FP6. The study is still in progress.
The areas under study include the Mediterranean basin with Southern Europe and Northern Africa, the Sahel (East and West Sahel), major parts of Southern Africa, China and the drylands of South America, i.e. important parts of the reported desertification prone areas of the world.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
Publiceringsår
2008
Språk
Engelska
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Ämne
- Physical Geography
Nyckelord
- Land degradation
- Global change
- Desertification
- NOAA AVHRR NDVI
- Remote sensing
Conference name
Wengen Workshop on Global Change Research: Edition 2007; Climate Change and Desertification: Monitoring, Modelling and Forecasting
Conference date
2007-09-10 - 2007-09-13
Conference place
otel Regina, Wengen, Switzerland
Status
Submitted
Projekt
- FP6, DeSurvey IP 2005-2010, A Surveillance System for Assessing and Monitoring Desertification
Forskningsgrupp
- EU FP6 DeSurvey WP 1.5.1: RS & Geomatics-Land condition assessment, Regional trends
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
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