**Meet the editor**

Dr Boris Escalante-Ramírez received his PhD from the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1992. He is currently a full professor in electrical engineering at the National University of Mexico and a member of the National Research System. His research interests embrace computational models of visual information processing and their applications to remote sensing,

medical imaging, video analysis, and computer vision. Dr Escalante has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed research papers and book chapters and has served as a reviewer of several international research journals. He has been participant or responsible for various national and international research projects, several of them in remote sensing. Dr Escalante has been granted several awards, including the National University distinction for junior scholars in exact sciences in 1997.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Narrowband Vegetation Indices for** 

Linsheng Huang and Shizhou Du

**and Its Relationship to Rainfall and Fire in the Brazilian Tropical Savanna 77**  Jorge Alberto Bustamante, Regina Alvalá

**Southern Brazil Through Orbital Imagery Classification Methods 99**  José Maria Filippini Alba, Victor Faria Schroder

and Mauro Ricardo R. Nóbrega

**Modeling of Water and Heat** 

A. Gelfan, E. Muzylev, A. Uspensky, Z. Startseva and P. Romanov

Chapter 3 **Seasonal Variability of Vegetation** 

and Celso von Randow

Chapter 4 **Land Cover Change Detection in** 

Chapter 5 **Mapping Soil Salinization of** 

Chapter 6 **Remote Sensing Based** 

and Pauline Stenberg

**Estimating Boreal Forest Leaf Area Index 3**  Ellen Eigemeier, Janne Heiskanen, Miina Rautiainen, Matti Mõttus, Veli-Heikki Vesanto, Titta Majasalmi

Chapter 2 **Crop Disease and Pest Monitoring by Remote Sensing 31** 

Wenjiang Huang, Juhua Luo, Jingcheng Zhang, Jinling Zhao, Chunjiang Zhao, Jihua Wang, Guijun Yang, Muyi Huang,

**Agricultural Coastal Areas in Southeast Spain 117** 

Ignacio Melendez-Pastor, Encarni I. Hernández, Jose Navarro-Pedreño and Ignacio Gómez

**Regimes in a Vast Agricultural Region 141** 

**Section 1 Land Cover 1** 
