Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Investigations at Catie on the Potential of High- Resolution Radar Images for Monitoring of Agriculture in Central America
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Quantifying Sustainable Development
Author: Charles A.S. HallPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080492215
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Until recently, the phenomenal economic development of the Asian tigers, Chile, and Malaysia, as well as the sustained economic growth of the United States, painted a very desirable and optimistic picture of free markets, fiscal responsibility, and, more generally, the entire dogma of neoclassical economics. As of the fall of 1998, however, the economies of many tropical countries have contracted severely, and the enthusiasm of the developing tropics for the free market and all of its ancillary policies is decidedly cooler. Have our traditional approaches to economics been failing the developing world? This interdisciplinary book covers the conditions of the developing tropics, the resistance of some of their problems to earlier attempts at solutions, and the use of new tools to develop a much more comprehensive and empirical framework for analysis and decision making. It also presents the development of cutting edge technology that links GIS and modeling approaches with extensive databases on meteorology, soils, agricultural production, and land use. The book discusses whether development is sustainable through a synthesis of demographic, economic, and resource-specific considerations. Costa Rica is uniquely suited to this study because of its size, stage of development, democratic institutions, and national databases. A CD-ROM containing all data and programs, color images, animated models, large data tables, and references accompanies the book. Links economic and biophysical analyses of sustainability Presents new tools and approaches for analysis and decision-making Includes a CD-ROM containing data and programs, color images, animated models, and references
Annual Report 1994
Author: Costa Rica) CATIE (TurrialbaPublisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN: 9789977572062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Research, validation and transfer a ctivities; Subtainable tropical agriculture preogram; Integrated management of natural resources program; Biodiversity management and conservation area; Economics of production and conservation area; Education for development and conservation program; Financing; Administration; External cooperation; Publications; Master's degree thesis; Council of ministers.
Proceedings for the Twenty-seventh International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Satellite Radar in Agriculture
Author: M. G. WoodingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y EnseñanzaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Imaging Radar for Resources Surveys
Author: J.W. TrevettPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400940890
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The use of air photographs as an aid to understanding and mapping natural resources has long been an established technique. The advent of satellite imagery was, and indeed by many still is, regarded as a very high altitude air photograph, but with the introduction of digital techniques the full analysis of imagery has become very sophisticated. Radar imagery presents the resource scientist with a new imaging technique that has to be understood and used, a technique which, although in many respects still in its infancy, has considerable applications potential for resources studies. Remote sensing now forms an element in study courses in the earth sciences in many major universities and a number of universities offer specialist post-graduate courses in remote sensing. Nevertheless there are a large number of earth scientists already working with imagery who have progressed from the air photograph base to satellite imagery. Such scientists may find themselves confronted with microwave or radar imagery or wish to use the imagery for surveys and find themselves hindered by a lack of understanding of the differences between radar imagery and optical imagery. Unfortunately reference to much of the literature will not be of very great help, many excellent text books on the theory and interaction of microwaves, on instrument design and construction and on the research carried out on specific target types exist, most of these are however written for specialists who are usually physicists not earth scientists.
Radar Remote Sensing for Crop Biophysical Parameter Estimation
Author: Dipankar MandalPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811644241
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book presents a timely investigation of radar remote sensing observations for agricultural crop monitoring and advancements of research techniques and their applicability for crop biophysical parameter estimation. It introduces theoretical background of radar scattering from vegetation volume and semi-empirical modelling approaches that are the foundation for biophysical parameter inversion. The contents will help readers explore the state-of-the-art crop monitoring and biophysical parameter estimation using approaches radar remote sensing. It is useful guide for academicians, practitioners and policymakers.
Author: D.S. Simonett
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