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Desertification and Risk Analysis Using High and Medium Resolution Satellite Data

Training Workshop on Mapping Desertification

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Alberto Marini

    1. University of Cagliari, Italy

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  2. Mohamed Talbi

    1. IRA Remote Sensing Laboratory, Institut des Regions Arides, Medenine, Tunisia

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  • The description of the effects of desertification in arid lands
  • The feeling about desertification from North African people
  • The modern techniques to map from high resolution satellite data

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Table of contents (23 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. General Aspects of Desertification

    1. Anthropic Actions And Desertification In Algeria

      • Mohamed Tahar, Lamia Boureboune
      Pages 3-18

    2. Climate Change And The Need For Renewable Energy Sources

      • Amina Malaki, Abdelilah El Ghannouchi, Mohamed El Wartiti
      Pages 19-26

    3. Changes In The Resources Management And Their Environmental Consequences In A Saharan Arid Environment

      • Mohamed Talbi, Najet Ben-Mansour, Khaled Talbi, Nabil Gasmi
      Pages 27-46

    4. Quality Management in Information Systems for Combating Desertification and Dry Lands Management

      • Mounir Sellami, Mohamed Talbi
      Pages 47-57

    5. Remote Sensing Of Aeolian Dust Production And Distribution

      • Kevin White
      Pages 59-69

    6. Space For The Unccd And The Desertwatch Project

      • Gaetano Pace, Gaia Vaglio Laurin, Lucio Pires Do Rosario, Maurizio Sciortino
      Pages 71-82

    7. The New Thematic Strategy For Protecting Soils In Europe

      • GiosuÈ Loj
      Pages 83-88

  3. Application of Remote Sensing Techniques to Desertification Mapping

    1. Aeolian Morphogenesis And Strategy Of Fight Against Desertification In Algeria (Hodna And Zibans Basin)

      • L. Boureboune, M.T. Benazzouz
      Pages 91-103

    2. Estimating Soil Moisture Using Optical and Radar Satellite Remote Sensing Data

      • Stefano Natali, Loreto Pellegrini, Gianluigi Rossi, Ludovica Giordano, Massimo Iannetta, Gabriele Schino et al.
      Pages 105-116

    3. Monitoring Sensitive Areas To Desertification In Sardinia: The Contribute Of The Regional Agrometeorological Service

      • Andrea Motroni, Simona Canu, Giuseppe Bianco, Giosu È Loj
      Pages 117-128

    4. Contribution Of SAR Interferometry (From Ers1/2) In The Study Of Aeolian Transport Processes: The Cases Of Niger, Mauritania And Morocco

      • Catherine Bodart, Jean Gassani, Marc Salmon, AndrÉ Ozer
      Pages 129-136

    5. Data Bank Of Territorial Spectral Signatures For Sardinia And North Africa

      • Alberto Marini, Paolo Colandrea
      Pages 137-142

    6. Geosites And Touristic Development Of The Northwestern Tabular Middle Atlas Of Morocco

      • Mohamed El Wartiti, Amina Malaki, Mohamed Zahraoui, Felice Di Gregorio, Jo De Waele
      Pages 143-156

    7. Monitoring Land Degradation in Drylands by Remote Sensing

      • Weicheng Wu
      Pages 157-170

    8. Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of a Project to Combat Desertification in Drylands (Case Study in Centre Western Tunisia)

      • Boubaker Raddaoui
      Pages 171-182

    9. Remote Sensing Technology Applications For Desertification Mapping: A Case Study, Oudia Area, Tunisia

      • Mohamed Osman Arnous, Mohamed Ahmed Sidi Cheikh, Ben Zaied Mongi, Riadh Aliout, Rabah Hadj-Ali, Yassine Garouni et al.
      Pages 183-197

    10. Sand Dunes Evolution And Desertification In Southeastern Morocco: A New Approach To An Old Problem

      • Amina Malaki, Mohamed El Wartiti, Abdelilah El Ghannouchi
      Pages 199-206

    11. Thematic Mapping Using Quickbird Multispectral Imagery In Oung El-Jemel Area, Tozeur (Sw Tunisia)

      • Francesco G. DessÃŒ, Abdoul Jelil Niang
      Pages 207-212

    12. Use Of Remote Sensing And Gis For Monitoring Agro-Ecological System In Tunisian Arid Regions (Study Case Of Menzel Habib)

      • Hanen Dhaou, A. Belghith, Mohamed Ouessar
      Pages 213-215
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This work becomes with methodological rigor a part of the innovative proposals for the characterization of the areas at risk of desertification. The complexity of the phenomenon of desertification, which involves extended surfaces in all continents, is one of the most alarming processes of the environmental degradation of our Planet and threatens the health and the living conditions of over a billion of persons. The food crisis, in continuous increase, ask for the world of research to urgently supply reassuring solutions concerning the acquisition of indicators, which are easy to monitor and concur to control the phenomenon in order to fight its acceleration. The constant but different combination that determines the diffusion of deserti- cation in the territories, attributable mostly to climatic changes and the activities of the man, makes our job challenging and complicated, since it varies from region to region. We are aware of all this and therefore we think that the methodological approach of survey of the data is an extremely important element to locate of the phenomenon and to monitor its course. This work, which is characterized for its multi-disciplinary approach, suggests solutions that we wish will quickly find concrete applications at international level. Prof. Bruno Dettori President CNLSD (Comitato Nazionale per la Lotta alla Siccità e alla Desertificazione) v

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Cagliari, Italy

    Alberto Marini

  • IRA Remote Sensing Laboratory, Institut des Regions Arides, Medenine, Tunisia

    Mohamed Talbi

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