Remote Sensing for Vegetation Monitoring

Remote Sensing for Vegetation Monitoring: Technologies, Applications and Models provides insight on the pivotal role that remote sensing plays in vegetation monitoring. As traditional field assessments face challenges due to inaccessible study sites and lengthy data collection, this book offers a comprehensive view of remote sensing applications for monitoring various vegetation ecosystems, including forests, grasslands, mangroves, and agriculture. The book presents a coherent and consistent structure, across five sections that build upon prior knowledge and detail the quantitative and qualitative assessments made possible through remote sensing technologies. Remote Sensing for Vegetation Monitoring: Technologies, Applications and Models caters to a diverse audience, including researchers and practitioners seeking to navigate the evolving landscape of vegetation monitoring through case studies, new algorithms and state-of-the-art methods.

• Provides the latest remote sensing techniques applied in all aspects of vegetation monitoring including forests, agriculture, grassland, phytoplankton, and mangroves
• Chapters are well-integrated and interdisciplinary, with consistent quality and continuity
• Includes recent, practical case studies across major global geographies that are formatted to be easily understood and reproduced