VIII/6: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Bio-Diversity

• Amazon Landscape Phenology across Rainforest-Cerrado Ecotone with MODIS Observations
• Analysing and quantifying vegetation responses to rainfall with high resolution spatio-temporal time series data for different ecosystems and ecotones in Queensland
• Application of Digital Elevation Model : DEM for estimation of soil loss by Revised Morgan Morgan and Finney : RMMF and Universal Soil Loss Equation : USLE in GIS The case study of Mae Chan Watershed, Chiang Rai Province
• Assessing the Agricultural Systems of Punjab State of India using Geospatial Techniques and Simulation Model
• Assessment of Indian carbon cycle components using earth observation systems and ground inventory
• Detection of Rice Plant Disease Through Leaf Reflectance
• Does the improved spectral resolution of Worldview-2 multispectral imagery improve discrimination of invasive tussock, Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris)?
• Drought assessment in Rajasthan using meteorological and remote sensing based indicators
• Environmental impact assessment and management strategy of Meroe dam, Sudan
• Establishing Crop Productivity Using RADARSAT-2
• Estimating biochemical parameters of tea (Camellia sinensis (L.)) using hyperspectral techniques
• Estimation of Nitrogen Concentration from HyMap Imagery using Hyperspectral Indices and Multivariate Analyses
• Estimation of the area under sugarcane cultivation using multi-scene SLC-off ETM+ images
• Estimation of Vegetation Height through Satellite Image Texture Analysis
• Evaluating crop water stress and its relationship with maize yield
• Evaluation Model for Rice under Heavy Metal Cd Stress using Hyperspectral Data
• Evaluation of Wheat Growth Monitoring Methods based on Hyperspectral Data in Western Australia
• Exploiting the DMC Satellite Constellation for Applications in Agriculture, Forest Monitoring and Disaster Response
• Global Monitoring for Food Security and Sustainable Land Management – Recent Advances of Remote Sensing Applications to African and Siberian Show Cases
• Identification of potential habitat patches using Multi-Criteria Evaluation for Connectivity in Andhra Pradesh, India
• Identify Suitable sites for protected areas in the Eastern Steppe
• Impact Assessment of Watershed in Desert Region
• Impact of The Atatürk Dam Lake on Agro-Meteorological Aspects of the South-eastern Anatolia Region Using Remote Sensing and GIS Analysis
• Implementation of an Agricultural Environmental Information System (AEIS) for SanJiang Plain, NE-China
• Large area rice crop monitoring using SAR data
• Low-cost, Ultra-high Spatial Resolution Mapping of Intertidal Rock Platforms
• Macrotidal barrier island mapping in the eastern Amazon coast from objected classification: outcomes to Holocene geological evolution
• Mapping Seawater Intrusion in Coastal Farmlands Using Vegetation Indices and Electrical Resistivity Tomography
• Mapping Thermal Habitat of Ectotherms Based on Behavioral Thermoregulation in a Controlled Thermal Environment
• Mapping vegetation properties in rangeland ecosystems using iterative spectral mixture analysis
• MODIS time series for land use change detection in fields of the Amazon Soy Moratorium
• MODIS-based evapotranspiration for crop performance monitoring and drought early warning applications
• Monitoring of agricultural landscape in Norway
• Monitoring riparian vegetation status using satellite-based measures
• Monitoring spatial patterns of vegetation phenology in an Australian tropical transect using MODIS EVI
• Multi-sensor synergies provide new understanding of Great Artesian Basin wetlands
• Multi-temporal analysis of rice fields in South Korea using RapidEye satellite imagery
• NDVI from Active Optical Sensors as a Measure of Canopy Cover and Biomass
• Participatory Geographic Information System for Soil Conservation in Phewa Watershed of Nepal
• Plant species monitoring in the Canary Islands using WorldView-2 imagery
• Predicting crop nitrogen and biomass with spectral indices and crop modelling
• Regionalization of agricultural management by using the multidata approach (MDA)
• Remote Sensing Based Biophysical Models For Estimation Of LAI In Irrigated Agriculture
• Remote Sensing Canopy Conductance for Combined Water and Carbon Studies
• Response of actual evapotranspiration to crop transformations in Northeastern China
• Risk Assessment of Rice Hot Disaster of High Temperature in the Middle-Lower Yangtze Area Based on Information Diffusion Theory
• Satellite-based measurements for benchmarking regional irrigation performance in Goulburn-Murray Catchment
• Shifts in ANPP and Rainfall Use Efficiency Across Australian Savannas using MODIS and TRMM Data
• Significance of Urban Biodiversity Mapping for the Integration of Spatial Planning and Ecosystem Services
• Spectral Characteristics of Selected Hermatypic Corals from Gulf of Kachchh, India
• Status and distribution of mangrove forests of the world using earth observation satellite data
• Study of Rice Identification during Early Season using Multi-polarization TerraSAR-X Data
• Study on Index of the assessment of flood disaster on summer maize
• Subdivision of Pantanal Quaternary wetlands: MODIS NDVI time-series in the indirect detection of sediment granulometry
• Temporal indices data for specific crop discrimination using fuzzy based noise classifier
• The Concept of Short Period And High Amplitude Pixels – SPAHAP for Vegetation Dynamics Studies
• The Role of Remote Sensing for Sustainable Elephant Management in South Africa. Four Medium Sized Game Reserves as Case Studies
• The spatial sampling methods for crop area estimation
• The Survey of the Density of Vegetation Cover in Poyang Lake Wetland with Polarimetric Decomposition Parameters
• Two-way spatial extrapolation and validation on ecological patterns of Elaeocarpus japonicus between main watersheds in Huisun of central Taiwan
• Use of Satellite SAR Polarimetry in Crop inventory – A Case Study
• Using Remote Sensing data, Study the Ecological Status of Mangrove Forest in Beibu Gulf, China
• Using WSN To Provide Enhanced In Situ Image Validation Information
• Vegetation change in the Wet Tropics, Queensland, Australia
• Vegetation responses to climatic variability in the Southeast United States: an analysis of changes in greenness and primary productivity during the first decade of the 21^st century

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