Volume 2 of Remote Sensing of LCLUC in South and Southeast Asia handbook explores the complex, dynamic interactions between land use, development, and the environment in the region. With contributions from NASA and regional experts, it highlights the transformative power of remote sensing and ML while calling stakeholders to action.
South and Southeast Asian countries are experiencing rapid land cover and land use changes (LCLUC) driven by urbanization, agricultural expansion, deforestation, and infrastructure development. These transformations have significant impacts on biodiversity, water resources, food security, and climate regulation. There is an urgent need to quantify LCLUC impacts to design effective management strategies that help understand, mitigate, and adapt to these changes. Remote sensing data plays a crucial role in providing diverse information essential for assessing land use patterns, quantifying changes, and evaluating both environmental and societal impacts.
Volume 2 explores the complex and dynamic interactions between land use and the environment in the region. It brings together expertise from U.S. contributors of the NASA-funded Southeast Asia Research Initiative (SARI) and collaborators from South and Southeast Asian countries.
Key Features
- Presents case studies on LCLUC impacts related to food security, heat stress, urbanization, agricultural intensification, water scarcity, forest transitions, and ecosystem health.
- Demonstrates the use of novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms for quantifying LCLUC impacts.
- Explores how satellite remote sensing can reveal hidden patterns, track environmental degradation, and support resource management.
- Highlights the integration of very high-resolution data with mid-resolution satellite data for effective LCLUC impact mapping and monitoring.
- Adopts a multidisciplinary approach, emphasizing the integration of biophysical and socio-economic data to address LCLUC impacts.
This book highlights the transformative power of remote sensing and geospatial technologies while calling researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to action. It offers valuable insights for scientists, geographers, ecologists, remote sensing specialists, and anyone interested in the intersection of land use, development, and environmental sustainability.
1. Factors Affecting Food Insecurity Across Under-Developed Regions of
India, Contrasting Indicators of Household-Scale Socioeconomics and Land
Cover Change.
2. Understanding Changes in Agricultural Land Use and Land
Cover in the Breadbasket Area of the Ganges Basin 2000-2015: A
Socioeconomic-ecological Analysis.
3. Spatiotemporal Distribution and Recent
Trends in Crop Water Use Across India.
4. Forest Transitions in Dry Tropical
Forests of Central India: Insights from Satellite Data and Socioeconomic
Surveys.
5. Remote Measures and Remote Policies: A Critique of Remote Sensing
in Indian Forests and Environmental Policy with Suggestions for Moving
Forward.
6. Ecological Evaluation and Assessment of Spatial Variables
Influencing the Urban Heat Island Effect in Bangalore, India.
7. Urbanization
and Settlement Growth in Forested Areas of South and Southeast Asia
Analysis Using Nighttime Satellite Datasets.
8. Urbanizations effects on
Heat Dynamics in Bangaluru City using UTCI and LCZ Classification.
9.
Assessment of Indian Flying Fox (Pteropus medius) Roosting Sites in Northern
Kerala using Landsat-derived NDVI.
10. Analysis of the Relationship Between
Cloud Fraction (CF) and Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) for Heterogeneous
Rainfall Regimes Over Peninsular India.
11. The Role of Land Cover/Land Use
in Malaria Transmission in Myanmar.
12. Ongoing Issues in Land Cover and Land
Use Change in Thailand and Priority Actions for Policy.
13. Understanding
Observed Agricultural Landscape Change in ng Thįp Province, Vietnam: Local
Perceptions and Drivers of Land Use and Land Cover Change around Trąm Chim
National Park.
14. Enhancing Agricultural Forecasting: Remote Sensing and
Climate Data Integration for Crop Yield Predictions in the Chi Basin,
Thailand.
15. Biomass Burning Emission Inventory and Modelling in the
Northern part of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (nASEAN).
16.
Estimates of Emissions from Open Biomass Burning in South-Southeast Asia:
Utilizing Fengyun-3D Fire Spot Monitoring Data.
Dr. Krishna Prasad Vadrevu is a remote sensing scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. His research focuses on land cover and land use change (LCLUC), fire dynamics, and biomass burning emissions. With 25 years of experience in satellite remote sensing, he has an extensive publication record. He is the Deputy Program Manager for NASA's LCLUC Program and leads the South/Southeast Asia Research Initiative.
Dr. Christopher Justice is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, with 45 years of experience in remote sensing research. He is a Project Scientist for the NASA LCLUC Program, the Land Discipline Lead for NASA MODIS, and a Suomi-NPP VIIRS Science Team member. Additionally, he is the Co-Chair of the GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM), Chief Scientist for NASA HARVEST, and Chair of the international Global Observations of Forest and Land Use Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) program.
Dr. Garik Gutman is Program Manager for the NASA Land-Cover/Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Program. After 14 years of research on deriving land surface variables from satellite data at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), he joined NASA Headquarters in 1999 and has been leading the LCLUC program, as well as Landsat-related activities, at NASA for over 25 years. He is the author of over 90 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and of several chapters in various climate- and land-cover related scientific volumes.
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