In landscape and urban planning, public participation and interactivity become more and more an issue. Real-time virtual 3D landscapes represent communication tools that allow experts as well as non-experts to use, explore, analyze, and understand landscape information. In our contribution, we describe the architecture and functionality of an interactive, participatory system, Lenné3D, which fa...

The so-called Vegetation Red-Edge (VRE), a sharp increase in the reflectance around 700 nm, is a characteristic of vegetation spectra, and can therefore be used as a biomarker if it can be detected in an unresolved extrasolar Earth-like planet integrated reflectance spectrum. Here we investigate the potential for detection of vegetation spectra during the last Quaternary climatic extrema, the L...

RESUME In this paper, two different methods for fractional vegetation cover (FVC) retrieval from CHRIS (Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) data based on vegetation indices have been analyzed. The first method uses NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) values, as suggested, among others, by Carlson and Ripley (1997) and Gutman and Ignatov (1998), and the second method uses VAR...

knowledge on habitat characteristics and nature of regional vegetation inrangelands is a prerequisite for any planning and proper range management along withsustainable development of renewable natural resources. rangelands in southern andwestern highlands of kashan, iran are of good vegetation diversity but unfortunately,palatable and desirable species are endangered in recent years. this rese...

drought is a major environmental disaster in many parts of the world. knowledge about the timing, severity and extentof drought can aid planning and decision-making. drought indices derived from in-situ meteorological data have coarsespatial and temporal resolutions, thus, obtaining a real-time drought condition over a large area is difficult. this studyused advanced very high resolution radiom...

sabzkouh protected area, with the variety of natural ecosystems and landscapes, is very rich from the point of diversity in climate, topography, habitats and wildlife that is located in central zagros. evidences show that its ecosystems such as other iranian semiarid natural ecosystems, undergone changes in their vegetation structure over the past years. obtaining multi-spectral and multi-tempo...

Burned forested areas have patterns of varying burn severity as a consequence of various topographic, vegetation, and meteorological factors. These patterns are detected and mapped using satellite data. Other ecological information can be abstracted from satellite data regarding rates of recovery of vegetation foliage and variation of burn severity on different vegetation types. Middle infrared...

The spatial variabi]Lity and co-variability of two different types of remote sensing derivatives that portray vegetation and geomorphic patterns are analyzed in the context of estimating regional-scale CO 2 flux from land surfaces in the arctic tundra. For a study area encompassing the Kuparuk River watershed of the North Slope of Alaska, we compare satellite-derived maps of the normalized diff...

A classification map is an image that provides a low-level content description of a corresponding remote-sensing image. Each “pixel” in the map is the index of a class that represents some type of content, such as a type of vegetation or mineral, in the corresponding spatial location of the remote-sensing image. Classification maps generated onboard a spacecraft may be used as part of a region-...

Maps are extremely useful for displaying information on the biological, physical, geographical, or cultural resources of an area. Additionally, maps can serve as the basis for designing and conducting resource inventory and monitoring programs. The fi rst part of this chapter focuses on the process of preparing a vegetation map, including a discussion of certain issues that need to be considere...