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 dynamics2. Microwave EO sensors for monitoring vegetation dynamics3. Hyperspectral EO sensors for monitoring vegetation dynamics4. Forest vegetation dynamics and its response to climate change5. Prediction of vegetation dynamics under the background of climate change6. Vegetation water content and water stress treatments in response to climate change7. Climate change impacts on crop productivity, and food security8. The impact of climate change on farmland ecosystem9. Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change10. EO quantitative inversion of crop and relevant environmental parameters11. EO for monitoring crop growth, health and yield12. EO for pests and diseases13. Spatially-explicit crop model development, implementation, and validation14. Soil moisture for crop water-stress detection15. Extreme weather events and their impact on the crop yields