Designing an integrated global monitoring system for drylands

Proceedings, 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 898-901

  Verstraete, M M ^a   Smith, M S ^b   Scholes, R J ^c  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

DDP; Desertification; Drylands; GCOS; GEO BON; Global observing systems; Remote sensing; UNCCD

Indexed keywords

DDP; DESERTIFICATION; DRY LAND; GCOS; GLOBAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS; UNCCD;

CLIMATE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING;

MONITORING;

EID: 84879955129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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