Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Land Cover/Land Use Changes in South and Southeast Asian Countries
暫譯: 南亞及東南亞國家農業與土地覆蓋/土地使用變化的遙感技術

本書為南亞/東南亞（S/SEA）國家的農業遙感提供了新的見解。S/SEA國家在人口、工業化和城市化方面迅速增長。該地區面臨的一個關鍵挑戰是糧食安全。在S/SEA，儘管過去幾十年總糧食生產和生產力有所增加，但近年來糧食生產的增長率已放緩，主要是由於土地使用變化、市場力量和政策干預。此外，該地區的氣候系統主要受到季風變異的驅動，導致乾旱或洪水，影響農業生產。因此，定期監測作物，包括農業土地覆蓋變化，對於預測和準備S/SEA國家的糧食供應中斷至關重要。

本書捕捉了有關農業土地覆蓋/土地使用變化的最新研究，包括作物的映射和監測、作物產量、生物物理參數的檢索、農業應用的多源數據融合，以及有關糧食安全的決策和預警系統的章節。本書的作者是該領域的國際專家，他們的貢獻突顯了遙感和地理空間技術在南亞/東南亞農業研究和應用中的使用。

Dr. Krishna Vadrevu is the Deputy Program Manager for the Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program at the Earth Science Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. He is also leading the South/Southeast Research Initiative (www.sari.umd.edu), a regional initiative of the NASA LCLUC program. He has more than 20 years of research experience in satellite remote sensing. Dr. Vadrevu gained his Ph.D. in 2000 while working at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), India. He worked with the interdisciplinary team of agricultural scientists at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), the Ohio State University, USA, on remote sensing of agroecosystems and organic farming field experiments (2001-2010). He then focused on various LCLUC projects, including vegetation fires in developing countries at the University of Maryland, College Park (2010-2016). He joined NASA in 2016. Dr. Vadrevu served as PI and Co-I on projects funded by NASA, USDA, and NSF on LCLUC, biomass burning/greenhouse gas emissions, land-atmospheric interactions, agricultural carbon cycling, and ecosystem sustainability. He has more than a hundred publications in peer-reviewed journals and books.

Dr. Thuy Le Toan is the Head of the research team in Remote Sensing in the Center for the Study of the Biosphere from Space (CESBio), a joint research Centre of the University of Toulouse, the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), and the National Center of Spatial Studies (CNES), France. Her current interest is on the use of Radar Earth Observation data to monitor terrestrial ecosystems, focusing on their role in the carbon budget and climate change, particularly in the tropics. She is P.I. of the ESA Biomass mission and currently Co-chair of the Biomass Mission Advisory Group. Moreover, she has been co-lead of the Asia-Rice Initiative. Also, she is currently involved in projects on forest biomass and rice agriculture and the effects of climate change on these ecosystems. She has supervised numerous Ph.D. students and post-doc researchers at the University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, and international collaboration in Europe, the U.S., and Asia. In addition, she has been lecturing and conducting training courses on SAR Remote Sensing at Universities and Research organizations in Europe, South America, and many countries in Asia.

Dr. Shibendu Shankar Ray was the Director of the Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare, India. He worked for more than 20 years in the Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Remote Sensing Applications in Agriculture. He led a team of scientists and researchers on various national-level operational agricultural applications, including Crop Forecasting, Drought Assessment, Crop Insurance, Horticultural Assessment and Development, and Crop Intensification. His sudden demise on May 04th, 2021, extremely saddened us. Although he was a co-Editor in this book project, unfortunately, he couldn't see the project to fruition.

Dr. Christopher Justice is a Professor at the Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He has 40 years of research experience in remote sensing. His current research is on land cover and land-use change and global agricultural monitoring using remote sensing. He is the Chief Scientist for NASA HARVEST, NASA's Applied Sciences program on agricultural monitoring. He serves as Project Scientist for the NASA LCLUC Program, the Land Discipline Lead for the NASA MODIS, and the Suomi-NPP VIIRS Science Team. In addition, he is the Co-Chair of the international GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM), and Chair of the international Global Observations of Forest and Land Use Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) program.

克里希納·瓦德雷夫博士是美國國家航空暨太空總署（NASA）科學任務處地球科學部土地覆蓋/土地使用變化（LCLUC）計畫的副計畫經理。他同時領導南方/東南方研究倡議（www.sari.umd.edu），這是NASA LCLUC計畫的一個區域性倡議。他在衛星遙感方面擁有超過20年的研究經驗。瓦德雷夫博士於2000年在印度空間研究組織（ISRO）獲得博士學位。他曾在美國俄亥俄州立大學的俄亥俄農業研究與發展中心（OARDC）與農業科學家跨學科團隊合作，專注於農業生態系統的遙感和有機農業田野實驗（2001-2010）。隨後，他專注於各種LCLUC項目，包括在馬里蘭大學（University of Maryland, College Park）研究發展中國家的植被火災（2010-2016）。他於2016年加入NASA。瓦德雷夫博士擔任過NASA、USDA和NSF資助的LCLUC、生物質燃燒/溫室氣體排放、土地-大氣相互作用、農業碳循環和生態系統可持續性項目的首席研究員和共同研究員。他在同行評審的期刊和書籍上發表了超過一百篇論文。

雷·托安博士是法國圖盧茲大學、國家科學研究中心（CNRS）和國家空間研究中心（CNES）共同研究中心生物圈遙感研究團隊的負責人。她目前的研究興趣是利用雷達地球觀測數據來監測陸地生態系統，專注於它們在碳預算和氣候變化中的角色，特別是在熱帶地區。她是歐洲太空局（ESA）生物質任務的首席研究員，並目前擔任生物質任務諮詢小組的共同主席。此外，她曾共同領導亞洲稻米倡議。她目前參與有關森林生物質和稻米農業的項目，以及氣候變化對這些生態系統的影響。她在法國圖盧茲的保羅·薩巴提耶大學指導了許多博士生和博士後研究人員，並與歐洲、美國和亞洲的國際合作。除此之外，她還在歐洲、南美洲和亞洲的多個國家大學和研究機構講授和開展SAR遙感的培訓課程。

希本杜·香卡·雷博士曾是印度農業與農民福利部馬哈拉諾比斯國家作物預測中心的主任。他在印度空間研究組織（ISRO）的空間應用中心從事農業遙感應用工作超過20年。他領導了一個科學家和研究人員團隊，專注於各種國家級的農業應用，包括作物預測、乾旱評估、作物保險、園藝評估與發展以及作物強化。他於2021年5月4日的突然去世讓我們感到非常悲痛。儘管他是本書項目的共同編輯，但不幸的是，他未能看到該項目的完成。

克里斯多福·賈斯提斯博士是美國馬里蘭大學地理科學系的教授。他在遙感領域擁有40年的研究經驗。他目前的研究專注於土地覆蓋和土地使用變化以及利用遙感進行全球農業監測。他是NASA HARVEST的首席科學家，該計畫是NASA的農業監測應用科學計畫。他擔任NASA LCLUC計畫的項目科學家，並是NASA MODIS的土地學科負責人以及Suomi-NPP VIIRS科學團隊的成員。此外，他還是國際GEO全球農業監測倡議（GEOGLAM）的共同主席，以及國際全球森林和土地使用動態觀測（GOFC-GOLD）計畫的主席。