Project

Research on earth surface heat changes caused by land degradation in the Mediterranean by means of thermal satellite imagery

Code
01D29607
Duration
01 October 2007 → 01 April 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Physical geography and environmental geoscience
  • Engineering and technology
    • Communications technology
    • Geomatic engineering
Keywords
land degradation earth surface heat changes thermal satellite imagery Mediterranean
 
Project description

Many studies handled the fenomenon land degradation. The consequences of land degradation on the earth surface heat changes are not sufficiently understood. The heat fluxes will be studied by means of thermal satellite imagery. The time period that will be studied reaches from the first thermal images till now. The study area is the Mediterranean. This is an area of various landscape changes in the last decades.