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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b style=""><span style=""><span style="">2011-07-17</span></span></b><b
style=""><span style=""> NRMI: NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS
OF
INTEREST</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.5in;
text-align: center; text-indent: -0.5in;" align="center"><span
style="">This Issue:</span><b style=""><i style=""><span
style=""> REMOTE SENSING AND MONITORING RICE
CROPS (Part 3/3) </span></i></b><span style="">and </span><span
style="">Some Other Good Things</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b
style=""><span style="">REMOTE SENSING AND MONITORING RICE CROPS
(Part 3/3)
-</span></b><span style="">
Recently we had an inquiry about rice crop monitoring of small
areas. Here are
some sites that may be of interest: If you know of others,
please contact Hamid
Dashti at </span><span style=""><a
href="mailto:ahangar.hamid@GMAIL.COM"><span style="">ahangar.hamid@GMAIL.COM</span></a></span><span
style="">. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in;
text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="">Panigrahy, S. et al. 1997. <b
style="">Early
estimation of rice area using temporal ERS-1 synthetic
aperture radar data - a
case study for the Howrah and Hughly districts of West Bengal,
India</b>. Int.
J. Remote Sensing 18(8): 1827± 1833. </span><span style=""><a
href="http://www.fao.org/gtos/doc/ECVs/T09/ECV-T9-landcover-ref20-Panigrahy.pdf"><span
style="">http://www.fao.org/gtos/doc/ECVs/T09/ECV-T9-landcover-ref20-Panigrahy.pdf</span></a></span><span
style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in;
text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="">Panse, V.G. et al. 1966. <b
style="">Estimation
of crop yields for small areas</b>. Biometrics 22(2). 1<sup>st</sup>
page. </span><span style=""><a
href="http://www.jstor.org/pss/2528527"><span style="">http://www.jstor.org/pss/2528527</span></a></span><b
style=""><span style=""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in;
text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="">Pratt, N.D. et al. 1997. <b
style="">Estimating
Areas of Land under Small-Scale Irrigation Using Satellite
Imagery and Ground
Data for a Study Area in N.E. Nigeria.</b> The Geographical
Journal 163(1):
65-77. </span><span style=""><a
href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/3059687"><span style="">http://www.jstor.org/stable/3059687</span></a></span><span
style="">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in;
text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="">Rai, Anil et al. 2007. <b
style="">Small area
estimation of crop production using spatial models.</b>
Journal Model Assisted
Statistics and Applications 2(2): 89-98. Abstract. </span><span
style=""><a
href="http://iospress.metapress.com/content/6r023716416m1v31/"><span
style="">http://iospress.metapress.com/content/6r023716416m1v31/</span></a></span><span
style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in;
text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="">Rai, Anil. n.d. <b style="">Crop
Area and
Production Surveys</b>. 9 p. </span><span style=""><a
href="http://www.iasri.res.in/ebook/EB_SMAR/e-book_pdf%20files/Manual%20III/17-Crop%20Estimation.pdf"><span
style="">http://www.iasri.res.in/ebook/EB_SMAR/e-book_pdf%20files/Manual%20III/17-Crop%20Estimation.pdf</span></a></span><span
style=""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in;
text-indent: -0.5in;"><b style=""><span style="">Rangeland
Assessment and Monitoring Methods Guide</span></b><span
style=""> </span><span style=""><a
href="http://www.rangelandmethods.org/"><span style="">http://www.rangelandmethods.org/</span></a></span><span
style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in;
text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="">Rango, Albert et al. 2006. <b
style="">Using
Unmanned Aerial vehicles for Rangelands: Current Applications
and Future
Potentials. </b>Environmental Practice 8 (3): 160-168. </span><span
style=""><a
href="http://usda-ars.nmsu.edu/biblio/pdf/06-039.pdf"><span
style="">http://usda-ars.nmsu.edu/biblio/pdf/06-039.pdf</span></a></span><span
style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in;
text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="">Roosta, H. et al. 2007. <b
style="">Comparison
between Linear and Non-Linear Crop Acreage Estimation Methods.</b>
International Journal of Energy and Environment 2(1): 115-121. </span><span
style=""><a
href="http://www.naun.org/journals/energyenvironment/ee-21.pdf"><span
style="">http://www.naun.org/journals/energyenvironment/ee-21.pdf</span></a></span><span
style=""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in;
text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="">Sarma, A.A.L.N. et al. 2008<b
style="">.
Development of an agroclimatic model for the estimation of
rice yield.</b> J.
Ind. Geophys. Union 12(2): 89-96.</span><span style=""> <a
href="http://www.igu.in/12-2/4sarma.pdf"><span style="">http://www.igu.in/12-2/4sarma.pdf</span></a></span><span
style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in;
text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="">Savin, I.; Baruth, B. 2008? <b
style="">Rice
acreage estimation in Kalmykia based on MODIS NDVI.</b> 4 p. </span><span
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href="http://smiswww.iki.rssi.ru/files/publications/savin/1.pdf"><span
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text-indent: -36.15pt;"><b><span style="">SOME
OTHER PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent:
-0.5in;"><span style="">Anon. 2011. <b style="">1st tree count in
Chennai begins.</b>
Deccan Chronicle. <a
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2011. <b style="">LiDAR as a rapid tool to predict
forest habitat types in Natura 2000 networks. </b>Biodivers.
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al. 2011. <b style="">Impacts of climate change on
the world's most exceptional ecoregions</b>. Proc. Natl. Acad.
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent:
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al. 2011. <b style="">Use of environmental
predictors for vegetation mapping in semi-arid mountain
rangelands and the
determination of conservation hotspots.</b> Appl. Veg. Sci.
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent:
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2011. <b style="">On estimating tropical forest
carbon dynamics in Papua New Guinea</b>. Annals of Forest
Science. 4 p. <a
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent:
-0.5in;"><span style="">Czaplewski, R. L.;
Thompson, M. T. 2009. <b style="">Opportunities to
improve monitoring of temporal trends with FIA panel data</b>.
In W.
McWilliams, et al. (eds.), Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA)
Symposium, Proc.
RMRS-P-56CD, pp. 1-55, Fort Collins, CO. U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Forest
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From Ray Czaplewski, USFS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent:
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to Aerial Photography on
GIS-MO for Schools. </b><a
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in;
text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="">Hazeu, Gerard
W. 2006? <b style="">Land use mapping and monitoring
in the Netherlands (LGN5).</b> 7 p. <a
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent:
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al. 2008. <b style="">Land Cover and Forest
Formation Distributions for St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Eustatius,
Grenada and
Barbados from Decision Tree Classification of Cloud-Cleared
Satellite Imagery. </b>Caribbean
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent:
-0.5in;"><span style="">Hengl, T. 2003. <b style="">Pedometric
mapping: bridging the gaps
between conventional and pedometric approaches</b>. PhD
thesis. University of
Wageningen. Enschede. 214 p. Poster available at <a
href="http://www.itc.nl/library/Papers_2003/phd_theses/hengl_poster.pdf/">http://www.itc.nl/library/Papers_2003/phd_theses/hengl_poster.pdf/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent:
-0.5in;"><span style="">Lawrence, Felicity.
2011. <b style="">Drought in east Africa the result
of climate change and conflict.</b> <a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/04/drought-east-africa-climate-change">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/04/drought-east-africa-climate-change</a>.
From civsonet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent:
-0.5in;"><span style="">UPI News. 2011. <b style="">Study
predicts areas of 'missing' species.</b>
<a
href="http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/07/05/Study-predicts-areas-of-missing-species/UPI-90391309900586/?spt=hs&or=sn">http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/07/05/Study-predicts-areas-of-missing-species/UPI-90391309900586/?spt=hs&or=sn</a>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent:
-0.5in;"><span style="">World Future
Council. 2011.<b style="">World Future Policy Award:
Nepal’s forest policy one of the best worldwide. </b><a
href="http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/6172281/2051266956/name/PR_FPA_Shortlisted_Policies_Nepal%5B1%5D.pdf">http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/6172281/2051266956/name/PR_FPA_Shortlisted_Policies_Nepal%5B1%5D.pdf</a>.
From Shiva Shankar Pandey, Nepalese Foresters List.</span></p>
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