Optical Remote Sensing for Soil Mapping and Monitoring

Soil Mapping and Process Modeling for Sustainable Land Use Management

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 87-125

  Escribano, Paula ^a   Schmid, Thomas ^b   Chabrillat, Sabine ^c   Rodríguez Caballero, Emilio ^a,d   García, Mónica ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b Environmental Department Soil Degradation Research Unit Av Complutense   (Spain)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological soil crust; Field spectroscopy; Hyperspectral; Imaging spectroscopy; Laboratory spectroscopy; Land degradation; Soil erosion; Soil properties; Soil spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014963835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-805200-6.00004-9     Document Type: Chapter

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