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1.2 Land Degradation in the UNCCD and GEF |
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1.3 Concepts, Processes, and Scales of Land Degradation |
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1.4 Assessment of Resilience of Agroecosystems |
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2 The Potential for Assessment of Land Degradation by Remote Sensing |
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2.1 Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
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2.2 Remote Sensing Features That Characterize NDVI-Based Assessments of Land Degradation |
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2.3 Other Vegetation Indices Closely Related to NDVI |
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2.3.1 Indices Closely Related to NDVI |
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2.3.2 Comparing NDVI to EVI |
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3 Applications of NDVI for Land Degradation Assessment |
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3.1 Land-Use and Land-Cover Change |
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3.2 Drought and Drought Early Warning |
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19 | (1) |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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3.7 Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) |
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3.8 Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation |
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23 | (1) |
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3.9 Monitoring Ecosystem Resilience |
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24 | (3) |
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4 Limits to the Use of NDVI in Land Degradation Assessment |
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27 | (4) |
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5 Key Issues in the Use of NDVI for Land Degradation Assessment |
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5.1 NDVI, NPP, and Land Degradation |
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5.2 NDVI, RUE, and Land Degradation |
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5.3 Separating the Effects of Other Causes of NDVI Changes |
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33 | (2) |
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35 | (2) |
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6 Development of Land Degradation Assessments |
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37 | (4) |
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7 Experts' Opinions on the Use of NDVI for Land Degradation Assessment |
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7.1 NDVI: Rainfall Proportionality, an Important Consideration |
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41 | (1) |
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7.2 Building on the GLADA Assessment |
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42 | (3) |
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8 Main Global NDVI Datasets, Databases, and Software |
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45 | (6) |
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8.2 Quality-Related Considerations |
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8.3 Precipitation Datasets |
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9 Country-Level Use of Satellite Products to Detect and Map Land Degradation Processes |
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51 | (4) |
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10 Challenges to the Use of NDVI in Land Degradation Assessments |
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55 | (2) |
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11 Recommendations for Future Application of NDVI |
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11.1 In the Convention National Reporting |
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11.2 In a Revised GEF Resource Allocation Methodology |
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58 | (3) |
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Appendix A Inventory of Some Global and Sub-global Remote Sensing-Based Land Degradation Assessments |
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Appendix B Use of Remote Sensing-Derived Land Productive Capacity Dynamics for the New World Atlas of Desertification (WAD) |
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Appendix C Developments with GLADA |
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Appendix D China's Experiences on the Usefulness of GLADA |
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Appendix E Main Features of Image Products from the Different Sensors |
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Appendix F UNCCD Core Indicators for National Reporting: ICCD/COP(11)/CST/2 |
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Appendix G Current Cost of Selected Satellite Imagery |
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Appendix H Software for Processing Satellite Images to Develop the NDVI |
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References |
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