مرجعية المرئيات

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Bachalpsee in the Swiss Alps., Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Bachalpseeflowers.jpg, Last access: 15.07.2009
Bolivian forests having been clear-cut and converted into agricultural land. The width of the image is 80 kilometers, Google Earth

الفصل 1: تدهور التربة

Erosion caused by waves, forcing the cliff to retreat (South Wales), Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Wavecut_platform_southerndown_pano.jpg, Last access: 15.07.2009
Soil erosion in the area of Huang He-Yulin in north-western China in 2002, as liewed by a LANDSAT satellite, European Space Agency (ESA),
Examples of different slope length measurements, Renard, K.G., Laflen, J.M., Foster, G.R. and McCool, D.K., 1994, The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation, in: Soil Erosion Methods (2nd Edition), R. Lal (Ed.), CRC Press, p.105-126.
Desertification in Yemen, as seen by the LANDSAT satellite. Vegetation appears green, while dry soil appears brown, Satellite Imaging Corporation URL: http://www.satimagingcorp.com/gallery/landsat-yemen-lg.html, Last access: 15.07.2009-->
Dust storm in Northern Africa, Terra/MODIS satellite, NASA, URL: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=8023, Last access: 15.07.2009
Risk of human-induced desertification map. Areas marked with red have the highest desertification risk, while green areas have the lowest risk. White areas are not considered in this map , Natural Resources Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, URL: http://soils.usda.gov/use/worldsoils/mapindex/dsrtrisk.html, Last access: 15.07.2009
Agricultural fields in Greece, Thessaly, SPOTImage, © CNES 2006,
Shrinking of Lake Chad in Arfica through the years., Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/ShrinkingLakeChad-1973-1997-EO.jpg, Last access: 15.07.2009
Disappearing marshes in Mesopotamia, between 1973 and 2000 (data from LANDSAT MSS and LANDSAT-7), NASA, URL: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2056, Last access: 15.07.2009
The GLASOD estimate of global land degradation (1997). Note that this includes all forms of soil degradation, not just erosion, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) - GRID, URL: http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/degraded-soils, Last access: 15.07.2009
Rain drop impact on soil, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service,
Mountain Tuolpagorni (Lapland, Sweden). The mountain peak is devoid of vegetation, Wikipedia Commons, URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Tuolpagorni.jpg, Last access: 15.07.2009
Soil erosion following deforestation in Quiche province of Guatemala., UN photo#106680 by John Olsson, URL: http://secint50.un.org/issues/gallery/iydd/page19.htm, Last access: 15.07.2009
China's Yangtze River at the Three Gorges, in Hubei province, NASA, URL: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1452, Last access: 15.07.2009
Desert soil is mostly made of sand, Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Rub_al_Khali_001.JPG, Last access: 15.07.2009
Taklimakan Desert in northwest China as seen by the MODIS sensor, NASA, URL: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4810, Last access: 12.12.2008

الفصل 2: إدارة المياه

Srisailam Dam in India, Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Srisailam-dam-with-gates-open-2.jpg, Last access: 15.07.2009
The Water Cycle, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) URL: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/rnk/Newsletter/Summer_2005/NOAA_Bout_Wx.htm, Last access: 15.07.2009
The Itaipu Dam in Parana River, along the Paraguay/Brazil border, US Geological Survey (USGS) URL: http://water.usgs.gov/gotita/hybiggest.html, Last access: 15.07.2009
The Itaipu Dam as seen by a high spatial resolution satellite, Google Earth
The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river in central China. Images from the nearly completed state in 2006 and at an early construction stage in 2000, NASA URL: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=17552, Last access: 15.07.2009
False colour images showing the rising of the Three Gorges Dam reservoir level, NASA
The Katse Dam in Lesotho (Southern Africa), Wikimedia Commons URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Katse_Dam%2CLesotho%2CAfrica.jpg, Last access: 15.07.2009
Difference between water levels, before and after the construction of the Katse Dam, Wikimedia Commons URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6809, Last access: 15.07.2009
Shrinking of Lake Chad in Arfica through the years, Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/ShrinkingLakeChad-1973-1997-EO.jpg, Last access: 15.07.2009
Water level changes in lake Poopo in Bolivia, NASA, URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6494, Last access: 15.07.2009
Flooding of the river Berounka in the Czech Republic, in 2002. , Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Povoden_2002_hlasna_treban.jpg, Last access: 15.07.2009
Multitemporal radar image, showing the flooding of river Elbe in Germany, European Space Agency (ESA)
Flash floods in Bangladesh during spring of 2005, NASA, URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=14974, Last access: 15.07.2009

الفصل 3: الإدارة المستدامة للغابات

Mixed deciduous forest in Stara Planina, Bulgaria, Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Stara_planina_suma.jpg, Last access: 15.07.2009
Artist's impression of SPOT-5 in orbit, Satellite Imageing Corporation, URL: http://www.satimagingcorp.com/satellite-sensors/spot-5.html, Last access: 15.07.2009
Forest map of an Alpine region, produced by QuickBird satellite data, GEOLAND project website, URL: http://www.gmes-geoland.info/OS/ONP/products.php, Last access: 15.07.2009
False colour image showing forests and agricultural crops., Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Deforestation in Madagascar as seen from MODIS, Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Satellite_image_of_Madagascar_in_September_2003.jpg, Last access: 15.07.2009
Deforestation in Brazil, between 2002 and 2006, as seen by NASA's MODIS, NASA Earth Observatory, URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6811, Last access: 15.07.2009
Jungle burned for agriculture in southern Mexico, Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Lacanja_burn.JPG, Last access: 15.07.2009
Farmland near the Bwindi National Park in Uganda, NASA/Nadine Laporte, URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/HANPP/hanpp3.php, Last access: 15.07.2009
An area of mountain ecotone showing the transitions from forest to scrub to grass and finally to bare ground with increasing elevation, GEOLAND project, URL: http://www.gmes-geoland.info/OS/ONP/products.php, Last access: 15.07.2009
A map of ecotone transition in an Austrian alpine treeline, produced from SPOT satellite data, GEOLAND project, URL: http://www.gmes-geoland.info/OS/ONP/products.php, Last access: 15.07.2009
Large fires in the forested mountains of Russia southeast of Lake Baikal (Burytiya region) and northern Mongolia's Selenge province, NASA Earth Observatory , URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38712, Last access: 17.07.2009
Forest fires in the Peloponnese region of Southern Greece, NASA Earth Observatory URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=18939, Last access: 17.07.2009
Classification of the burnt areas in the Peloponnese region, after the forest fires of 2007, NASA Earth Observatory URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=18942, Last access: 17.07.2009
Different GIS information layers, stacked together., National Coastal Data Development Centre (NCDDC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA , URL: http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/technology/gis, Last access: 18.05.2009
Points, lines and polygons on a GIS map., Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Simple_vector_map.svg, Last access: 18.05.2009
Elevation map with contours., Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gislayers.jpg, Last access: 18.05.2009

الفصل 4: إدارة النفايات

A landfill site, Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Landfill.jpg, Last access: 17.07.2009
Landfill site in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, Google Earth
Hambach mine in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany. Lignite is being extracted from the three opencast mines, NASA Earth Observatory, URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=1642, Last access: 17.07.2009
Ore mining near Noril'sk in Siberia, Russia., NASA Earth Observatory, URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6506, Last access: 17.07.2009
Millennium Open Pit Mine in Alberta, Canada, NASA Earth Observatory, URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8282, Last access: 17.07.2009
Mines in Bitterfeld, Germany, converted to lakes, Google Earth

الفصل 5: التخطيط العمرانى

Melbourne cityscape, Freephotooftheday.com, URL: http://freephotooftheday.clientk.com/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/melbourne-cityscape-vi.jpg, Last access: 17.07.2009
View of Paris from the QuickBird satellite, Satellite Imaging Corporation, URL: http://www.satimagingcorp.com/, Last access: 17.07.2009
IKONOS image of Rio De Janeiro, Brasil, Satellite Imaging Corporation, URL: http://www.satimagingcorp.com/, Last access: 17.07.2009
Landsat 7 image of Philadelphia in Pensylvania, USA, Satellite Imaging Corporation, URL: http://www.satimagingcorp.com/, Last access: 17.07.2009
City lights on the globe. This image was created from a mosaic of night-time images, NASA Earth Observatory, URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=896, Last access: 17.07.2009
Remote sensing data of the 4 common bands are not sufficient to distinguish between urban features, Kong et. al., 2006, Classification and Extraction of Urban Land-Use Information from High-Resolution Image Based on Object Multi-features, Journal of China University of Geosciences, vol. 17, issue 2, p. 151-157,
Human-made lights show densely populated areas, NASA Earth Observatory, URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=981, Last access: 17.07.2009
Urban expansion in Mexico city between 1973 and 2000, Federation of American Scientists, URL: http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/Sect4/Sect4_1.html, Last access: 17.07.2009
Urban sprawl in Las Vegas between 1972 and 2006, NASA, URL: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010100/a010184/index.html, Last access: 17.07.2009