Chuckwalla land [[electronic resource] ] : the riddle of California's desert / / David Rains Wallace |
Autore | Wallace David Rains <1945-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina | 578.75409794 |
Soggetto topico |
Desert biology - California
Deserts - California |
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american southwest
arid biome biosphere botany cacti california conservation death valley desert animals desert plants desert earth sciences ecology ecosystem environment environmentalism extreme heat geology kelso dunes landscape life sciences natural history naturalist nature nonfiction paleobiology red rock canyon science wasteland zoology |
ISBN |
1-283-27779-4
9786613277794 0-520-94866-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue. Bushes and Lizards -- 1. A Sphinx in Arcady -- 2. The Country of Dried Skin -- 3. A Cactus Heresy -- 4. The Creator's Dumping Ground -- 5. An Evolutionary Backwater -- 6. Anti-Darwinian Lacertilians -- 7. Descriptive Confusion -- 8. A Murderous Brood -- 9. Hopeful Monsters -- 10. An Old Earth-Feature -- 11. A Climatic Accident -- 12. An Evolutionary Frontier -- 13. A Neo-Darwinian Galapagos -- 14. Mexican Geneses -- 15. Desert Relicts -- 16. Madro-Tertiary Attitudes -- 17. A Friendly Land -- 18. Furry Paleontologists -- 19. Dawn Horses and Dinosaurs -- 20. Axelrod Antagonistes -- 21. The Midday Sun -- 22. Lacertilian Ambiguities -- 23. Xerothermic Invasions -- 24. Sand Swimmers -- 25. Axelrod Ascendant -- 26. An Evolutionary Museum -- 27. The Riddle of the Palms -- 28. Bushes and Camels -- 29. Axelrod Askew -- 30. Paradigms Postponed -- 31. The Falcon and the Shrikes -- Epilogue. The Sphinx's Lair -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781494003321 |
Wallace David Rains <1945->
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Land Surface Monitoring Based on Satellite Imagery |
Autore | Venafra Sara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (232 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Research & information: general
Environmental economics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Sentinel-2
spectral bands LAI vegetation indices Sentinel-1 SAR RVI incidence angle crop coefficient leaf area index urban heat island UHI regional impacts non-urban areas remote sensing thermal band UHI intensity remote sensing/GIS spatial dynamics landscape metrics urban–rural gradient urbanization automatic monitoring time series change detection urban planning hyperspectral cacti drone climate change drought water deficit index infrared observations satellite surface temperature air temperature humidity dew point temperature land subsidence DInSAR differential interferograms stacking floods coastal plain of Tabasco crop residue fusion machine learning algorithm reflective and radar bands land-cover change REDD+ Google Earth Engine random forest landsat Togo emissivity evapotranspiration heterogeneity Rao’s Q index spectral variation hypothesis thermal infrared |
ISBN | 3-0365-5930-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910639991903321 |
Venafra Sara
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