Download or read book Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing for Land Degradation Assessment written by Achim Roeder and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-04-23 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land degradation and desertification are amongst the most severe threats to human welfare and the environment, as they affect the livelihoods of some 2 billion people in the worlds drylands, and they are directly connected to pressing global environmental problems, such as the loss of biological diversity or global climate change. Strategies to co