Remote sensing of global croplands for food security

• Main Author: Thenkabail, Prasad Srinivasa
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton CRC Press 2009; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Remote Sensing Appliations Series
• Subjects: Agriculture; Agriculture > Security measures; Artificial satellites in agriculture; Crops; Crops > Remote sensing; Food supply; Food supply > Security measures; Irrigation farming; Irrigation farming > Remote sensing; Remote sensing; Security measures; Land Cover Class; Spot Vegetation; Data Set; Energy Balance; Fallow Cropland; National Agricultural Statistics Service; FAO Data; NDVI Cycle; Spot VGT; Land Cover Type; NBS Data; Cropland Areas; Da Ta; Rechna Doab; Cropland Mapping; Remote Sensing; Pe Rc; Land Cover; Data; USGS; MODIS Data; Irrigated Areas; Mapping Irrigated Area; United Nations Joint Logistics Centre; Groundtruth Data
• ISBN: 1420090097; 9781420090093
• DOI: 10.1201/9781420090109

A complete review of practical mapping technologies based on advanced remote sensing data and methods, this book provides approaches for estimating irrigated and rainfed cropland areas and their water use on a national, continental, or global basis. It offers case studies from a variety of continent...

Table of Contents:

• Global Map of Rainfed Cropland Areas (GMRCA) and Statistics Using Remote Sensing -- Section VI: Methods of Mapping Croplands Using Remote Sensing -- Multiangle Spectral Measurements: A Way to Distinguish Cropping Areas -- Applying Pattern Recognition to Satellite Data for Detecting Irrigated Lands: A Case Study for Georgia, United States -- Mapping Irrigated Crops from Landsat ETM -- Imagery for Heterogeneous Cropping Systems in Pakistan -- Section VII: Accuracies and Errors -- Accuracy and Error Analysis of Global and Local Maps: Lessons Learned and Future Considerations -- Section VIII: Way Forward in Mapping Global Irrigated and Rain-Fed Croplands -- Remote Sensing of Global Croplands for Food Security: Way Forward -- Back cover
• Front cover -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface Global Mapping of Irrigated and Rain-Fed Cropland Areas Using Remote Sensing -- Acknowledgments -- Editors -- Contributors -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Section I: Background and History of Global Irrigated Area Maps (GIAM) -- Context, Need: The Need and Scope for Mapping Global Irrigated and Rain-Fed Areas -- A History of Irrigated Areas of the World -- Section II: Global Irrigated Area Mapping (GIAM) Using Remote Sensing -- Global Irrigated Area Maps (GIAM) and Statistics Using Remote Sensing -- Section III: GIAM Mapping Section for Selected Global Regions -- Uncertainty of Estimating -- Irrigated Areas in China -- Irrigated Areas of India Derived from Satellite Sensors and National Statistics: A Way Forward from GIAM Experience -- Mapping Irrigated Lands across the United States Using MODIS Satellite Imagery -- Use of Remote Sensing to Map Irrigated Agriculture in Areas Overlying the Ogallala Aquifer, United States -- Assessing the Extent of Urban Irrigated Areas in the United States -- The Challenges of Mapping Irrigated Areas in a Temperate Climate: Experiences from England -- Irrigated Area Mapping in the CWANA Region and Its Use in Spatial Applications for Land Use Planning, Poverty Mapping, and Water Resources Management -- Subpixel Mapping of Rice Paddy Fields over Asia Using MODIS Time Series -- Section IV: Evapotranspiration Models, Water Use, and Irrigated Areas -- Assessment of Water Resources and Demands of Agriculture in the Semiarid Middle East -- Estimating Actual Evapotranspiration from Irrigated Fields Using a Simplified Surface Energy Balance Approach -- Satellite-Based Assessment of Agricultural Water Consumption, Irrigation Performance, and Water Productivity in a Large Irrigation System in Pakistan -- Section V: Rain-Fed Cropland Areas of the World