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List of contents
Background and History of Global Irrigated Area Maps (GIAM). Global Irrigated Area Mapping (GIAM) Using Remote Sensing. GIAM Mapping Section for Selected Global Regions. Evapotranspiration Models, Water Use, and Irrigated Areas. Rain-Fed Cropland Areas of the World. Methods of Mapping Croplands Using Remote Sensing. Accuracies and Errors. Way Forward in Mapping Global Irrigated and Rain-Fed Croplands.
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Prasad Thenkabail, John G. Lyon, Hugh Turral, Chandrashekhar Biradar
Summary
A complete review of practical mapping technologies based on advanced remote sensing data and methods, this book provides approaches for estimating irrigated and rainfed cropland areas and their water use on a national, continental, or global basis. It offers case studies from a variety of continents highlighting the subtle requirements of each.
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… provides unique means for understanding and comparing different cropland mapping strategies by utilizing different satellite sensors and ancillary data sets. The chapters are well written for entry level through advanced level remote sensing or agricultural specialists, and each chapter can be read sequentially or separately. … thoroughly documents the techniques and error assessment methods utilized to develop the world's first global irrigated map derived from remote sensing data. … the numerous international authors, color plates, and national cropland statistical tables makes the book an attractive and authoritative reference for mapping global croplands from remote sensing data.
—Curt A. Reynolds, Crop Analyst, Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA, Washington, D.C., in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, June 2010
