Among the striking features specific to drylands is the discontinuous vegetation cover, discontinuous in space (e.g. steppes) and/or in time (e.g. dry savannas). Soils are more exposed than in any other environment, as a result they are prone to erosion, particularly by wind. A second consequence is soils are an important component of the land surf...
The southwest of the Indian Ocean comprises numerous islands of less than 3000 sq km (Comoros, Seychelles, Mascarene Islands). These small island territories have very fragmented and diversified environments. Satellite imagery and products at low and medium spatial resolution (usually from 4 kilometers to 250 meters) are not or poorly suited to the...
Cet article présente une vue d'ensemble des avancées récentes en télédétection spatiale appliquée à l'étude des surfaces enneigées et englacées auxquelles la communauté scientifique française a participé. Qu'ils s'agissent de données satellitaires optique, radar, lidar ou gravimétrique, ces travaux sur la couverture nivale saisonnière ou pérenne, l...
The purpose of the study is to verify whether some correlation exists between soil erodibility (i.e. K factor mentioned in RUSLE model) and data obtained from satellite images. This piece of work represents a first attempt towards a model that would predict the risk for soil erosion, from information contained in satellite images. Ouarchoch is a ru...
