Vegetation Dynamics and Crop Stress: An Earth-Observation Perspective focuses on vegetation dynamics and crop stress at both the regional and country levels by using earth observation (EO) data sets. The book uniquely provides a better understanding of natural vegetation and crop failure through geo-spatial technologies. This book covers biophysical control of vegetation, deforestation, desertification, drought, and crop-water efficiency, as well as the application of satellite-derived measures from optical, thermal, and microwave domains for monitoring and modeling crop condition, agricultural drought, and crop health in contrasting monsoon/weather episodes.

Provides a quantitative analysis of vegetation and crop stress based on EO datasets
Offers descriptions of the spatially explicit vegetation and crop model development, implementation, and validation
Covers the impact of soil-water stress on crop performance and vegetation response to climate change using earth observation techniques

Table of Contents:

1. Multispectral EO sensors for monitoring vegetation dynamics
2. Microwave EO sensors for monitoring vegetation dynamics
3. Hyperspectral EO sensors for monitoring vegetation dynamics
4. Forest vegetation dynamics and its response to climate change
5. Prediction of vegetation dynamics under the background of climate change
6. Vegetation water content and water stress treatments in response to climate change
7. Climate change impacts on crop productivity, and food security
8. The impact of climate change on farmland ecosystem
9. Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change
10. EO quantitative inversion of crop and relevant environmental parameters
11. EO for monitoring crop growth, health and yield
12. EO for pests and diseases
13. Spatially-explicit crop model development, implementation, and validation
14. Soil moisture for crop water-stress detection
15. Extreme weather events and their impact on the crop yields

Agriculture in general

Crop production

Mechanical Engineering Sciences

Theory of computing, computing in general

Office softwares, spreadsheets

Ecology

Agribusiness

Environmental protection

Agriculture in general (charity campaign)

Crop production (charity campaign)

Mechanical Engineering Sciences (charity campaign)

Theory of computing, computing in general (charity campaign)

Office softwares, spreadsheets (charity campaign)

Ecology (charity campaign)

Agribusiness (charity campaign)

Environmental protection (charity campaign)

Vegetation Dynamics and Crop Stress