Vegetation Dynamics and Crop Stress An Earth-Observation Perspective

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.

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

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.
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.