Remote Sensing for Monitoring Sustainable Development - Theory and Practice

This contributed volume presents a focused orientation on the use of remote sensing-based indicators and monitoring tools for sustainable development reporting. The book offers cases studies that illustrate methodological approaches for providing timely information across scales. The contents her primarily focuses on remote sensing applications for land use and land cover change in the context of climate change and sustainable development, but chapters also cover topics such as urban forestry, landslides and glaciological hazards, desertification and land degradation, carbon stock monitoring, and more.