Remote Sensing for Food Security

Description

This volume gathers a variety of applications for remote sensing of vegetation health (VH) and concretely shows how this information can be used in service of ending hunger and of ensuring future food security. In this book’s ten chapters, Dr. Felix Kogan, one of the most prolific scientists in this sphere, shows how a new VH method, designed from operational environmental satellite data, can be used to provide advanced predictions of agricultural losses, helping to enhance food security and reducing the number of hungry people. Topics covered include the scientific basis of the VH method, drought monitoring, prediction of short-term agricultural yield and crop insurance, and impacts of long term climate variability and change on food security. A short discussion on VH for human health-related topics such as detection and prediction of malaria and fire risk is included as well. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Why This Book? (Felix Kogan)....Pages 1-8 Food Security: The Twenty-First Century Issue (Felix Kogan)....Pages 9-22 Operational Satellites for Earth Monitoring (Felix Kogan)....Pages 23-50 Vegetation Health Method (Felix Kogan)....Pages 51-73 Monitoring Drought from Space and Food Security (Felix Kogan)....Pages 75-113 Vegetation Health-Based Modeling Crop Yield and Food Security Prediction (Felix Kogan)....Pages 115-162 Vegetation Health for Insuring Drought-Related Yield Losses and Food Security Enhancement (Felix Kogan)....Pages 163-173 Advanced VH-Based Long-Term Drought and Food Security Prediction (Felix Kogan)....Pages 175-189 Climate Change and Food Security Current and Future (Felix Kogan)....Pages 191-224 Application of Vegetation Health Data and Products for Monitoring Food Security (Felix Kogan)....Pages 225-241 Back Matter ....Pages 243-255