Wessels, Konrad J2011-09-232011-09-232011Observations on environmental change in South Africa, edited by Larry Zietsman, Published SUN MeDIA Stellenbosch978-1-920338-24-4http://www.africansunmedia.co.za/Portals/0/files/Promotion/Observations-on-Environmental-Change-in-SA-e-version-Section-3.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/5167Copyright: 2011 Authors and SUN MeDIA StellensboschIn South Africa, land degradation in rangelands has been regarded as a major environmental problem for many years. During the last ten years, attention focussed on the land degradation in the former homelands, now communal lands. There is an urgent need for a standardised, quantitative and spatially-explicit measures of ecosystem functions to map and monitor land degradation, especially in the light of land redistribution and restitution. The authors investigated the long-term vegetation production of these degraded areas with 18 years of satellite data which provided an objective and repeatable, regional monitoring tool.enDesertificationLand degradationVegetation productionSAEONDroughtEnvironmental change iClimate changeEnvironmentBook ChapterWessels, K. J. (2011). Monitoring land degradation with long-Term satellite data., <i>Workflow request;7231</i> SUN MeDIA Stellenbosch. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5167Wessels, Konrad J. "Monitoring land degradation with long-term satellite data" In <i>WORKFLOW REQUEST;7231</i>, n.p.: SUN MeDIA Stellenbosch. 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5167.Wessels KJ. Monitoring land degradation with long-term satellite data.. Workflow request;7231. [place unknown]: SUN MeDIA Stellenbosch; 2011. [cited yyyy month dd]. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5167.TY - Book Chapter AU - Wessels, Konrad J AB - In South Africa, land degradation in rangelands has been regarded as a major environmental problem for many years. During the last ten years, attention focussed on the land degradation in the former homelands, now communal lands. There is an urgent need for a standardised, quantitative and spatially-explicit measures of ecosystem functions to map and monitor land degradation, especially in the light of land redistribution and restitution. The authors investigated the long-term vegetation production of these degraded areas with 18 years of satellite data which provided an objective and repeatable, regional monitoring tool. DA - 2011 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Desertification KW - Land degradation KW - Vegetation production KW - SAEON KW - Drought KW - Environmental change i KW - Climate change KW - Environment LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2011 SM - 978-1-920338-24-4 T1 - Monitoring land degradation with long-term satellite data TI - Monitoring land degradation with long-term satellite data UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5167 ER -