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Vegetation Dynamics and Crop Stress

An Earth-Observation Perspective

  • 1st Edition - July 10, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Dipanwita Dutta, Arnab Kundu, N.R. Patel
  • Language: English

Vegetation Dynamics and Crop Stress: An Earth-Observation Perspective focuses on vegetation dynamics and crop stress at both the regional and country levels by using earth observ… Read more

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Description

Vegetation Dynamics and Crop Stress: An Earth-Observation Perspective focuses on vegetation dynamics and crop stress at both the regional and country levels by using earth observation (EO) data sets. The book uniquely provides a better understanding of natural vegetation and crop failure through geo-spatial technologies. This book covers biophysical control of vegetation, deforestation, desertification, drought, and crop-water efficiency, as well as the application of satellite-derived measures from optical, thermal, and microwave domains for monitoring and modeling crop condition, agricultural drought, and crop health in contrasting monsoon/weather episodes.

Key features

  • Provides a quantitative analysis of vegetation and crop stress based on EO datasets
  • Offers descriptions of the spatially explicit vegetation and crop model development, implementation, and validation
  • Covers the impact of soil-water stress on crop performance and vegetation response to climate change using earth observation techniques

Readership

Advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in the fields of agriculture, crop science, agronomy, environmental sciences, geography, remote sensing and GIS, ecology

Table of contents

1. Multispectral EO sensors for monitoring vegetation dynamics

2. Microwave EO sensors for monitoring vegetation dynamics

3. Hyperspectral EO sensors for monitoring vegetation dynamics

4. Forest vegetation dynamics and its response to climate change

5. Prediction of vegetation dynamics under the background of climate change

6. Vegetation water content and water stress treatments in response to climate change

7. Climate change impacts on crop productivity, and food security

8. The impact of climate change on farmland ecosystem

9. Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change

10. EO quantitative inversion of crop and relevant environmental parameters

11. EO for monitoring crop growth, health and yield

12. EO for pests and diseases

13. Spatially-explicit crop model development, implementation, and validation

14. Soil moisture for crop water-stress detection

15. Extreme weather events and their impact on the crop yields

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 10, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Dipanwita Dutta

Dr. Dipanwita Dutta is Assistant Professor in the Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, Vidyasagar University (India). She completed her M. Sc. in Geography from the University of Calcutta and obtained her second M. Sc. degree in Remote Sensing and GIS under a joint collaboration program of Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente (The Netherlands), and Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun (India). She was Senior Research Fellow at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa and received her Ph. D. degree from the Jamia Millia Islamia in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Her broad area of research includes vegetation dynamics, agricultural drought, dryland issues, crop monitoring, land-use dynamics, urban green space. Dr. Dutta has published in reputed international journals. She has also edited one book published by CRC Press/ Taylor and Francis and published 12 chapters in national and international books.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Remote Sensing and GIS Vidyasagar University Midnapore, West Bengal, India

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Arnab Kundu

Dr. Arnab Kundu is a Faculty member in the Department of Geo-Informatics at P.R.M.S. Mahavidyalaya, Bankura University (India). Before joining there, he was working as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at DST-Mahamana Centre of Excellence in Climate Change Research, Banaras Hindu University (India). He holds an M. Sc. in Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation from the University of Twente (ITC), the Netherlands, and an M. Sc. degree in Geography from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata (India). He completed his Ph.D. (Technology) in GIS and Remote Sensing from the Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (ISRO), Dehradun (India). His main research interests are drought, desertification and dryland issues, application of geospatial techniques for environmental monitoring and management. Also, he works on multi-criteria decision-making methods in natural resources management.
Affiliations and expertise
Faculty, Department of Geo-Informatics P.R.M.S. Mahavidyalaya Bankura University, West Bengal, India

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N.R. Patel

Dr. N. R. Patel, a senior scientist- Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, has 25 years’ experience with space applications in the field of agriculture and allied sciences. He obtained his Master's degree in Agronomy and Ph. D. in Agrometeorology and has received recognition in the field of agriculture and agrometeorology including the National award Hari OM Ashram Prerit Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for his contribution in the field of space applications to agrometeorology. He serves as council member/secretary/editor of professional scientific societies and is a Fellow of the Earth Science Foundation. An Associate Editor of the Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing and Journal of Agrometeorology, he has more than 100 published papers in peer-reviewed International and National Journals. His specific research contribution is to promote space applications in the field of agrometeorology and provide new insights into regional monitoring, modeling, and assessment of Indian agro-ecosystems.
Affiliations and expertise
Scientist (SG), Department of Agriculture and Soil, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Uttarakhand, India

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