We focussed on the assessment and monitoring of land change processes using two scales of remote sensing data.
The detailed, peer-reviewed analysis was based on data from environmental monitoring stations on land, sea, and ice and from sensors on satellites and planes.
In this article, we suggest that the analysis and monitoring of land-use intensity should follow an integrative conceptual framework that focuses on three dimensions of land-use intensity: inputs to the land, outputs from the land, and the human-induced, but unintended outcomes of land-use intensification that are best measured at the system level.
Moreover, all involved farmers were asked to grant permission for monitoring on their land.
In the wild, monitors hunt on land or in the water, climbing trees, digging up burrows, or simply chasing down their prey: an adult monitor can outrun a human, though it will usually attack only when cornered.
Quantifying methane release across the Arctic is an active area of research, with several countries despatching missions to monitor sites on land and sea.
Given tree recipients' demand for smaller flowering or fruiting trees, as well as lack of resources for tree survival monitoring on private lands, program leaders appeared to have turned to social measures of success − spreading a positive message about trees and urban greening − as opposed to biophysical performance metrics.
An additional data need is refined C stock monitoring on non-forest lands and better coordination among land use categories to ensure complete accounting and avoidance of double counting.
The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan continues the monitoring of crustal deformation on land using the GPS network and estimates the distribution of the afterslip.
The GRACE TVG data have been used extensively in monitoring mass redistribution phenomena on land and, to a lesser extent but increasingly, over oceans, in particular in studying ocean dynamics as exemplified in the present analysis of the ACC variations.
These models combine available data on monitoring concentrations, land use, meteorology, time activity patterns, and emissions.
