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Regional Environmental Changes: Application to Soil Erosion Modeling
Figure 4. The five selected regions and pilot zones of Medimont.
Pilot zones were selected in five Mediterranean regions undergoing a severe
desertification process: Andalusia, Corsica, Basilicate, Calabria and Crete (see
Fig. 4).
Regional-scale approaches consist in a series of parallel investigations ranging
from sensitivity studies to climate change, through the use of remote sensing
techniques and macro-economic scenarios, to historical botanic reviews.
3 THE DATA ISSUE: MAJOR OBJECTIVES AND
METHODS FOR RESEARCH ON DESERTIFICATION IN
THE MEDITERRANEAN CONTEXT
As in the MEDIMONT project, the study of desertification phenomena requires
the combination of various sources of information at different time and space
scale-levels.
A major objective of such studies is the identification of potential indices of
desertification in diversified historical and natural contexts and study sites.
Remote sensing techniques offer a series of promising achievements in this
direction.