Claudio Zucca

TL;DR: This paper suggests how the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) community can progressively make use of a flexible framework of analytical approaches that have been recently developed by scientific research to allow a standardized but flexible use of indicator sets adapted to specific objectives or desertification issues relevant for implementing the Convention.

TL;DR: Model performances resulted extremely sensitive to band position, suggesting the importance of using hyperspectral sensors with contiguous spectral bands, and lead to significant improvements in model predictive capability compared to the traditional SR and NDVI and to broad-band indices.

TL;DR: In this paper, several soil indicators, which can be used to assess the effectiveness of ecological restoration strategies in dryland ecosystems at different spatial and temporal scales, are discussed; the selected indicators represent the different viewpoints of pedology, ecology, hydrology, and land management.

TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated methodology that uses aerial photographs and field surveys was applied to inventory the gullies of the area, and the degree of activity and morphological characteristics of gullies were assessed in the field by measuring the position and shape of gully heads, and their width and depth.

TL;DR: In this paper, several soil indicators, which can be used to assess the effectiveness of ecological restoration strategies in dryland ecosystems at different spatial and temporal scales, are discussed; the selected indicators represent the different viewpoints of pedology, ecology, hydrology, and land management.