War and Agriculture: Three Decades of Agricultural Land Use and Land Cover Change in Iraq

The main objective of this dissertation was to assess whether cultivated area in Iraq, as estimated using satellite remote sensing, changed during and as a result of war and sanctions. The first study used MODIS NDVI data during OIF and the end of UN sanctions to study changes in cultivated area for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gibson, Glen R.
Other Authors: Geography
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27671
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05112012-150734/