LEADER 04520nam 22006975 450 001 9911022352403321 005 20250830130204.0 010 $a3-031-98048-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-98048-0 035 $a(CKB)40851431600041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32275457 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32275457 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-98048-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)9940851431600041 100 $a20250830d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRevealing Ecosystem Services Through Geospatial Technologies $eBeyond the Surface /$fedited by Onisimo Mutanga, Prem Chandra Pandey, Sandipan Das, Uday Chatterjee 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (507 pages) 225 1 $aSpringer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry,$x2198-073X 311 08$a3-031-98047-6 327 $aIntroduction -- Terrestrial Ecosystem services -- Wetlands & Aquatic Ecosystem services -- Threats to Ecosystem services -- Challenges and opportunities to sustainable future. 330 $aThis book covers the quantification of forests, grasslands, and woodlands ecosystem services from the supply side (e.g., regulatory and provisioning services) to the demand side, including human cultural needs. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA, 2005) defines ecosystem services as simply the benefits that are derived from ecosystems for human well-being (Board 2005). The report has documented that ecosystems have contributed more than 50% of the world's GDP. However, as a result of climate change and anthropogenic impacts, about 60% of the world's ecosystem services have been degraded. This significant reduction of services has serious consequences on food production, climate regulation, and net primary production, among other services which directly affect human well-being. In order to appreciate the benefits of various ecosystems to humanity and monitor their degradation, a systematic quantification of ecosystem services and their change in both time and space is critical. In particular, there is a need to characterize the ecological infrastructures, processes, and ecosystem functions that underpin the ecosystem services in ways that can be evaluated and tracked (Potschin and Haines-Young 2016). In addition, various intervention measures to restore degraded ecosystems require constant and accurate measurement of the ecosystem characteristics in order to assess the benefits of ecological restoration. Vegetation in particular provides a number of provisioning (forage production, food), regulatory (climate, temperature), supporting (primary production, nutrient cycling), and cultural (educational, recreation) ecosystem services as well as biodiversity maintenance (Masenyama et al. 2022). Remote sensing data contributes significantly to mapping, modeling, and quantitative valuation of the ecosystem services in a spatially explicit manner. It provides an opportunity to use standard protocols at various spatial scales as well as wall-to-wall mapping of phenomena through time, which is critical for monitoring on a continuous basis. 410 0$aSpringer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry,$x2198-073X 606 $aEnvironmental geography 606 $aGeographic information systems 606 $aEnvironmental monitoring 606 $aGeography 606 $aPhysical geography 606 $aIntegrated Geography 606 $aGeographical Information System 606 $aEnvironmental Monitoring 606 $aRegional Geography 606 $aPhysical Geography 615 0$aEnvironmental geography. 615 0$aGeographic information systems. 615 0$aEnvironmental monitoring. 615 0$aGeography. 615 0$aPhysical geography. 615 14$aIntegrated Geography. 615 24$aGeographical Information System. 615 24$aEnvironmental Monitoring. 615 24$aRegional Geography. 615 24$aPhysical Geography. 676 $a910 700 $aMutanga$b Onisimo$01826545 701 $aPandey$b Prem Chandra$01846957 701 $aDas$b Sandipan$01588195 701 $aChatterjee$b Uday$01588192 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911022352403321 996 $aRevealing Ecosystem Services Through Geospatial Technologies$94431907 997 $aUNINA