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This volume is a synthesis of the NASA funded work under the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program. Hundreds of scientists have worked for the past eight years to understand one of the most important forces that is changing our planet-human impacts on land cover, that is land use. Its contributions span the natural and the social sciences, and apply state-of-the-art techniques for understanding the earth: satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems, modeling, and advanced computing. It brings together detailed case studies, regional analyses, and globally scaled mapping efforts.

This is the most organized effort made to understand the dominant force that has been responsible for changing the Earth’s biosphere.

Audience: This publication will be of interest to students, scientists, and policy makers.




This volume is a synthesis of the NASA funded work under the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program. Hundreds of scientists have worked for the past eight years to understand one of the most important forces that is changing our planet-human impacts on land cover, that is land use. Its contributions span the natural and the social sciences, and apply state-of-the-art techniques for understanding the earth: satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems, modeling, and advanced computing. It brings together detailed case studies, regional analyses, and globally scaled mapping efforts.

This is the most organized effort made to understand the dominant force that has been responsible for changing the Earth’s biosphere.

Audience: This publication will be of interest to students, scientists, and policy makers.




This volume is a synthesis of the NASA funded work under the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program. Hundreds of scientists have worked for the past eight years to understand one of the most important forces that is changing our planet-human impacts on land cover, that is land use. Its contributions span the natural and the social sciences, and apply state-of-the-art techniques for understanding the earth: satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems, modeling, and advanced computing. It brings together detailed case studies, regional analyses, and globally scaled mapping efforts.

This is the most organized effort made to understand the dominant force that has been responsible for changing the Earth’s biosphere.

Audience: This publication will be of interest to students, scientists, and policy makers.


Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Development of the International Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC) Research Program and Its Links to NASA’s Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Initiative....Pages 1-15
The NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change Program....Pages 17-29
Meeting the Goals of GOFC....Pages 31-55
Front Matter....Pages 55-59
Forest Change and Human Driving Forces in Central America....Pages 57-76
Pattern to Process in the Amazon Region....Pages 77-95
Towards an Operational Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa....Pages 97-110
Land Use and Land Cover Change in Southeast Asia....Pages 111-122
Northern Eurasia....Pages 123-138
Land Cover Disturbances and Feedbacks to the Climate System in Canada and Alaska....Pages 139-161
Mapping Desertification in Southern Africa....Pages 163-184
Woodland Expansion in US Grasslands....Pages 185-208
Arid Land Agriculture in Northeastern Syria....Pages 209-222
Changes in Land Cover and Land Use in the Pearl River Delta, China....Pages 223-236
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
The Effects of Land Use and Management on the Global Carbon Cycle....Pages 237-256
Land Use and Hydrology....Pages 257-276
Land Use Change and Biodiversity....Pages 277-299
Land Use and Climate....Pages 301-314
Urbanization....Pages 315-328
Land Use and Fires....Pages 329-350
Land Cover / Use and Population....Pages 351-366
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
Trends in Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring....Pages 367-377
Linking Pixels and People....Pages 379-394
Modeling Land Use and Land Cover Change....Pages 395-409
Front Matter....Pages 419-419
Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Pathways and Impacts....Pages 411-429
Integrated Land-Change Science and Its Relevance to the Human Sciences....Pages 431-447
Research Directions in Land-Cover and Land-Use Change....Pages 449-457
Back Matter....Pages 459-459
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