Monitoring of Desert Locust in Africa and Asia

About this book

This book deals with the topic of remote sensing monitoring of desert locusts in Africa and Asia. Remote sensing monitoring of the occurrence and damage of desert locusts is conducted by integrating cutting-edge technologies and methods in cross-disciplinary fields in remote sensing science, geographic information science, agronomy, plant protection, agricultural meteorology, mathematics, and computer science. The main contents include spatiotemporal data analysis and processing, desert locust breeding areas monitoring, pest migration path analysis and damage monitoring. Moreover, a desert locust remote sensing monitoring system is constructed and applied in the region of Africa and Asia countries. This book not only provides technical reference for remote sensing monitoring and application of desert locusts but also serves as a research reference for scholars and graduate students engaged in agricultural remote sensing, agricultural information technology, plant protection and other related field. It will help to improve remote sensing monitoring and application of desert locusts.

Contents

Foreword
Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Desert Locust Breeding Area and Migration Path in Africa and Asia
Chapter 3. Monitoring of Desert Locusts in East Africa
Chpater 4. Monitoring of Desert Locusts in West and South Asia
Chapter 5. Remote Sensing Monitoring System of Desert Locust and its Application

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Biography

Dong Yingying, works at the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIR, CAS). She received a B.S. degree in applied mathematics from Shandong Normal University, Shandong, China, in 2006, an M.S. degree in computational mathematics from Capital Normal University, Beijing, China in 2009 and a PhD degree in remote sensing in agriculture and information technology from Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China, in 2013. After her PhD, she went to Canada as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Lethbridge. Her research interests include vegetation parameter inversion, crop growth monitoring, pest & disease monitoring and forecasting, and system development. She has published more than 70 articles and more than 10 patents.

Dr Longlong Zhao works at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Professor Wenjiang Huang works at the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.