Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface - 6

This volume is a synthesis of the NASA funded workunder the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program.Hundreds of scientists have worked for the past 8 years to understand one of the most important forces that is changing our planet - human impacts on land cover, that is land use.

Itscontributions span the natural and the social sciences, and apply state-of-the-art techniques for understanding the earth: satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems, modeling, and advanced computing.

It brings together detailed case studies, regional analyses, and globally scaled mapping efforts.This is the most organized effortmade to understand the dominant force that has been responsible for changing the Earth's biosphere.Audience:This publication will be of interest to students, scientists, and policy makers.CD-ROM includedThis volume includes a CD-ROM containing full color images of a selection of illustrations which are printed in black-and-white in the book