Milewski, Robert
[VerfasserIn]
;
Guanter, Luis
[AkademischeR BetreuerIn];
Bookhagen, Bodo
[AkademischeR BetreuerIn];
Eckardt, Frank
[AkademischeR BetreuerIn];
Echtler, Helmut
[AkademischeR BetreuerIn]Universität Potsdam
Potential of optical remote sensing for the analysis of salt pan environments
Hochschulschrift:
Dissertation, Universität Potsdam, 2020
Anmerkungen:
kumulative Dissertation
Beschreibung:
Salt pans also termed playas are common landscape features of hydrologically closed basins in arid and semiarid zones, where evaporation significantly exceeds the local precipitation. The analysis and monitoring of salt pan environments is important for the evaluation of current and future impact of these landscape features. Locally, salt pans have importance for the ecosystem, wildlife and human health, and through dust emissions they influence the climate on regional and global scales. Increasing economic exploitation of these environments in the last years, e.g. by brine extraction for raw materials, as well as climate change severely affect the water, material and energy balance of these systems. Optical remote sensing has the potential to characterise salt pan environments and to increase the understanding of processes in playa basins, as well as to assess wider impacts and feedbacks that exist between climate forcing and human intervention in their regions. Remote sensing techniques can provide information for extensive regions ...