Land Change Science
Gutman, Garik / Janetos, Anthony C. / Justice, Christopher O. / Moran, Emilio F. / Mustard, John F. / Rindfuss, Ronald R. / Skole, David / Turner II, Billy Lee / Cochrane, Mark A.
This volume is a synthesis of the NASA funded work under the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program. Hundreds of scientists have worked for the past eight years to understand one of the most important forces that is changing our planet-human impacts on land cover, that is land use. Its contributions span the natural and the social sciences, and apply state-of-the-art techniques for understanding the earth: satellite remote sensing, geographic ...