Time Series Analysis of Environmental Ecosystems: case of Morocco: Evidence from NOAA AVHRR Satellite Data - Couverture souple

Marzouk, Abdelkrim

 
9783639138726: Time Series Analysis of Environmental Ecosystems: case of Morocco: Evidence from NOAA AVHRR Satellite Data
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639138724 ISBN 13 : 9783639138726
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

The NOAA AVHRR is considered to be one of the largest image archives ever gathered in the history of remote sensing. Although designed to support meteorological applications, The NOAA AVHRR?s ability to produce an index of relatively green vegetation biomass, coupled with its ability to virtually produce cloud-free monthly composites has now yielded an extraordinary time series more than 20 years in length. This book looks at the potential of the archive as a tool for understanding environmental dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions. The principal tool used in this investigation was a Principal Components-based time series analysis (TSA). Using a set of 240 monthly composite multi- band AVHRR images for Morocco, a 20-year time series of monthly NDVI images was analyzed This analysis should help shed some light on this new approach and should be essentially useful to professionals in remote sensing, or to anyone who may be considering utilizing NOAA AVHRR data for environmental dynamics analysis.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The NOAA AVHRR is considered to be one of the largest image archives ever gathered in the history of remote sensing. Although designed to support meteorological applications, The NOAA AVHRR?s ability to produce an index of relatively green vegetation biomass, coupled with its ability to virtually produce cloud-free monthly composites has now yielded an extraordinary time series more than 20 years in length. This book looks at the potential of the archive as a tool for understanding environmental dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions. The principal tool used in this investigation was a Principal Components-based time series analysis (TSA). Using a set of 240 monthly composite multi- band AVHRR images for Morocco, a 20-year time series of monthly NDVI images was analyzed This analysis should help shed some light on this new approach and should be essentially useful to professionals in remote sensing, or to anyone who may be considering utilizing NOAA AVHRR data for environmental dynamics analysis.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Abdelkrim Marzouk earned his Ph.D from Clark University Worcester, USA in 2005. His expertise is in GIS and remote sensing. Currently he is an assistant professor at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane Morocco. He worked as a GIS analyst at Viewpoint Company in Boston (1999)and a GIS software tester at Clark Labs (2000) in Worcester, USA.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639138724
ISBN 13 
9783639138726
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
116
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