Five chapters focus on the applications of remote sensing that support water resources
management in irrigated agriculture and summarize the major achievements. Chapter 1 …

A dynamic geo-referenced land use/cover model (clue-cr) which simulates simultaneous
local, regional and national land use/cover changes in Costa Rica is presented and …

This text provides a background view of the object approach, related geometric aspects, the
different level of data modelling and the role of geo-information theory. The rest of the book …

Forests, cattle, pastures and crops; The different" logics" of livestock production. The role of
market forces in the cattle-forest relationship. Government subsidies for livestock and public …

Costa Rican land use and cover (in 1973 and 1984) were investigated using a nested scale
analysis. Spatial distributions of potential biophysical and human land use/cover drivers …

Dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) inchronosequences of soils below forests that had
beenreplaced by grazed pastures 3–25 years ago, wereinvestigated for two contrasting soil …

Land cover mapping methodology should be governed by the attributes of the land cover
types. Since land cover types usually have significantly different interpretation …

This book presents a methodology to support the development of soil and water
management strategies for tidal lowlands in general and Indonesian tidal lowlands in …

This study analyses seven factors used to explain the conversion of forest to pasture in
Central America between 1979 and 1994: 1) favorable markets for livestock products, 2) …

Currently, rates of deforestation in the tropics are probably higher than ever before in the
past. As a consequence, changes in the earth's physical and chemical environments are …