Some Insights on Grassland Health Assessment Based on Remote Sensing
Grassland ecosystem is one of the largest ecosystems, which naturally occurs on all continents excluding Antarctica and provides both ecological and economic functions. The deterioration of natural grassland has been attracting many grassland researchers to monitor the grassland condition and dynami...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:30cb6225b9cc4aaa87f389ac48262c44 2023-05-15T14:01:58+02:00 Some Insights on Grassland Health Assessment Based on Remote Sensing Dandan Xu Xulin Guo 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/s150203070 https://doaj.org/article/30cb6225b9cc4aaa87f389ac48262c44 EN eng MDPI AG http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/2/3070 https://doaj.org/toc/1424-8220 1424-8220 doi:10.3390/s150203070 https://doaj.org/article/30cb6225b9cc4aaa87f389ac48262c44 Sensors, Vol 15, Iss 2, Pp 3070-3089 (2015) ecosystem grassland health assessment grassland monitoring remote sensing Chemical technology TP1-1185 article 2015 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/s150203070 2022-12-30T23:45:48Z Grassland ecosystem is one of the largest ecosystems, which naturally occurs on all continents excluding Antarctica and provides both ecological and economic functions. The deterioration of natural grassland has been attracting many grassland researchers to monitor the grassland condition and dynamics for decades. Remote sensing techniques, which are advanced in dealing with the scale constraints of ecological research and provide temporal information, become a powerful approach of grassland ecosystem monitoring. So far, grassland health monitoring studies have mostly focused on different areas, for example, productivity evaluation, classification, vegetation dynamics, livestock carrying capacity, grazing intensity, natural disaster detecting, fire, climate change, coverage assessment and soil erosion. However, the grassland ecosystem is a complex system which is formed by soil, vegetation, wildlife and atmosphere. Thus, it is time to consider the grassland ecosystem as an entity synthetically and establish an integrated grassland health monitoring system to combine different aspects of the complex grassland ecosystem. In this review, current grassland health monitoring methods, including rangeland health assessment, ecosystem health assessment and grassland monitoring by remote sensing from different aspects, are discussed along with the future directions of grassland health assessment. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Sensors 15 2 3070 3089 |
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Grassland ecosystem is one of the largest ecosystems, which naturally occurs on all continents excluding Antarctica and provides both ecological and economic functions. The deterioration of natural grassland has been attracting many grassland researchers to monitor the grassland condition and dynamics for decades. Remote sensing techniques, which are advanced in dealing with the scale constraints of ecological research and provide temporal information, become a powerful approach of grassland ecosystem monitoring. So far, grassland health monitoring studies have mostly focused on different areas, for example, productivity evaluation, classification, vegetation dynamics, livestock carrying capacity, grazing intensity, natural disaster detecting, fire, climate change, coverage assessment and soil erosion. However, the grassland ecosystem is a complex system which is formed by soil, vegetation, wildlife and atmosphere. Thus, it is time to consider the grassland ecosystem as an entity synthetically and establish an integrated grassland health monitoring system to combine different aspects of the complex grassland ecosystem. In this review, current grassland health monitoring methods, including rangeland health assessment, ecosystem health assessment and grassland monitoring by remote sensing from different aspects, are discussed along with the future directions of grassland health assessment. |
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