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List of acronyms and abbreviationsAgroParisTech Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences /

Institut des sciences et industries du vivant et de l’environnement (France)BRGM Geoscience for a sustainable Earth (France) / Géosciences pour une terre durable

Cemagref Agricultural and environmental engineering research institute (France) /Institut de recherche pour l‘ingénierie de l‘agriculture et de l‘environnement

CEPRALMAR Centre d’Études et de promotion des Activités lagunaires et Maritimes du Roussillon (France)CERF Centre d’Essai de Recherche et de Formation (France)

CEROPATH Community Ecology of ROdents and their PATHogens in South-East AsiaCIHEAM /

IAMMInternational Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies – Montpellier Mediterranean Agronomic Institute / Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéenne - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier (France)

CIRAD Agricultural Research for Development (France)CNES French National Space Agency* / Centre National d’Études Spatiales (France)CNPq National Council for Scientifi c and Technological Development (Brazil) /

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científi co e Tecnológico (Brasil)CNRS National Center for Scientifi c Research (France) / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifi que

EA Host team / Équipe d‘accueilED Graduate school / Ecole doctorale

EMA École des Mines d’Alès (France)ENGREF École nationale du génie rural, des eaux et des forêts (France)

ENITA École nationale d’ingénieurs des travaux agricoles (France)ENVISAT Environment satellite (ESA)

EPHE École pratique des hautes études (France)ESA European Space Agency / Agence spatiale européenneETP Potential evapotranspirationFRE Formation de recherche en évolutionGIS Geographic information system

GEOSUD Geoinformation for sustainable developmentGPS Global positioning system

HH-HV Transmitting-receiving polarization (radar) : H Horizontal, V VerticalIFR Federative research institute / Institut Fédératif de Recherche

IFREMER French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea / Institut français de recherche pour l‘exploitation de la mer

IGN French National Geographic Institute* / Institut géographique national (France)INRA National Institute for Agricultural Research (France) / Institut national de la recherche agronomique

INRIA French national institute for research in computer science and control / Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique

InSAR Interferometric synthetic aperture radarIRD French Institute of Research for Development* / Institut de recherche pour le développement (France)IUT University Institute of Technology* (France) / Institut universitaire de technologie

LIDAR Light detection and rangingMODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

Montpellier SupAgro

International Center for Higher Education in Agriculture Sciences (France) / Centre international d’études supérieures en sciences agronomiques

MSS Landsat multispectral scannerNASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)NDVI Normalized difference vegetation index

NIR Near infraredONF French National Bureau of Forestry * / Offi ce national des forêts (France)

Radar Radio detection and rangingROSELT Network for long-term ecological monitoring observatories /

Réseau d’Observatoires de Surveillance Écologique à Long TermeSEAWifs Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor Project

SPOT French Earth Observation satellite / Satellite Pour l’Observation de la TerreSYSCOLAG Coastal and lagoon systems of Languedoc-Roussillon region* (France) /

SYStèmes CÔtiers et LAGunaires du Languedoc-RoussillonTSIGANE Technologies et Système d’Information Géographique pour l’Agriculture via Internet

UAPV Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse (France)ULM Ultra-light motorized aircraft

UM1, 2,3 Universités Montpellier 1, 2, 3 (France)UMR Joint research unit / Unité mixte de rechercheUPR Internal research unit / Unité propre de recherche

UPVD Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (France)UR Research unit / Unité de recherche

URP International research unit / Unité de recherche en partenariatUS Service unit / Unité de service

* unoffi cial translation

This document was published with the support of the French government

and Languedoc-Roussillon Region.

Member organizations and partners of Agropolis International involved in this Dossier

As well as: CEPRALMAR, CPS, EADS Astrium, Guyane Technopole, IFB, Institut Pasteur, IRA, MAP, MEEDAT,

MNHN, ONEMA,ONERA, ONF, OSS, Région Réunion, Thales Alenia Space, UAG

Director in Chief: Bernard Hubert

Scientific coordinator: Pascal Kosuth (Cemagref)

Agropolis International coordinator: Patrick Bisson

Scientific editor: Isabelle Chaffaut (Cemagref)

Technical editor: Isabelle Amsallem (Agropolis Productions)

Illustrations: Isabelle Chaffaut,Nathalie Villemejeanne (Agropolis International)

Translation: David Manley

Participated in this issue: Serge Andréfouët, Martine Antona, Nicolas Arnaud, Marc Audibert, Jean-Christophe Auffray,

Yildiz Aumeeruddy- Thomas, Pierre-Alain Ayral, Jean-Stéphane Bailly, Éric Barbe, Christian Baron,

Pierre Bazile, Agnès Bégué, Véronique Bellon-Maurel, Anne Biarnes, Alain Billand, Alain Bize, Hervé Bohbot,

Jean-Paul Bord, Aurélie Botta, Fabien Boulier, Christine Boutavin, Flavie Cernesson, Isabelle Chaffaut, Emmanuel Chassot,

Marc Cheylan, François Colin, Yves Collos, Guillaume Cornu, Geneviève Cortes, Jean-François Cosson, Pierre Couteron,

Philippe Cury, Sandrine Dalmar, William’s Daré, Régis Darques, Jean Dauzat, Gilbert David, Geneviève Debussche,

Pascal Degenne, Philippe Delacourt, Carole Delenne, Hervé Demarcq, Francine Delmas, Jean-Marc Deragon,

Jean-Christophe Desconnets, Michel Deshayes, Jean-François Desprats, Michael Dingkuhn, Amadou Tamsir

Diop, Vincent Dollé, Stéphane Dominguez, Anabelle Dos Santos, Michaël Douchin, Sylvie Durrieu, Katrin Erdlenbruch,

Charly Favier, Jocelyne Ferraris, Nathalie Finot, Alex Franc, Patrice Garin, Laurent Gazull, Philippe Geniez, Pierre Gondard,

Antonio Gonzàlez Ramos, Nathalie Gorretta, Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury, Frédéric Grelot, Hélène Guis, Pascal Handschumacher,

Vincent Herbreteau, Younes H’mimsa, Frédéric Huynh, Christophe Iung, Andrés Jacome, Bruno Jaudon, Pascal Kosuth,

Philippe Lagacherie, Nathalie Lamanda, Anne-Elizabeth Laques, Serge Lallemand, Nathalie Lamanda, Jean-Baptiste Laurent,

Valentine Lebourgeois, Jean-Dominique Lebreton, Grégoire Leclerc, Michel Lecoq, Marie-Pierre Ledru,

Camille Lelong, Guerric le Maire, Frédéric Leone, Jacques Lepart, Thérèse Libourel, Maud Loireau, Joëlle Lopez, Paulina Lopez,

Miguel Lopez-Ferber, Danny Lo Seen, Paulina Lopez, Maïlys Luye, Jacques Maillet, Florent Maraux, François Marques,

Claire Marsden, Arnaud Martin, Pascal Marty, Pierre Maurel, Geneviève Michon, André Miralles, Jean-Marie Miossec, François

Monicat, Serge Morand, Florent Mouillot, Mireille Mourzelas, Roger Moussa, Jean-Pierre Müller, Dominique Nicolas,

Myriam Niel, Karen Nieto, Yann Nouvellon, Paul Pandolfi, Michel Passouant, Nicole Pasteur, Annie Pastoureaud,

Elie Pélaquier, Michel Petit, Marie-Odile Petrusiak, Michel Peyret, Françoise Poitevin, Cécile Poussard, Laurent Prévot,

Christophe Proisy, Gilles Rabatel, Michael Rabotin, Serge Rambal, Jean-Pierre Ratte, Vincent de Rudnicki, Hélène Rey-Valette,

Thierry Rieu, Bruno Roux, Denis Ruelland, Bernadette Ruelle, Éric Servat, Nathalie Tardieu, Emilie Tewkai, André Teyssier,

Pascal Thinon, Nadine Tilloy, Jérôme Tixier, Pierre Todoroff, Jean-Philippe Tonneau, Ibra Touré, Annelise Tran,

Marc Troussellier, Céline Tschirhart, André Vaquer, Marc Voltz, Jacques Wery

Other illustrations: we thank ESA, SPOT Image and all contributors to this Dossier

Layout and computer graphics:Olivier Piau (Agropolis Productions)

agropolisproductions@orange.fr

Printing: Les Petites Affiches (Montpellier, France)ISSN : 1628-4240 • Copyright: February 2010

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