Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Developing Countries Studied using Remote Sensing and In Situ Methods 英文参考文献.docVIP

Remote Sensing 2010, 2, 497-513; doi:10.3390/rs2020497 OPEN ACCESS Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292 /journal/remotesensing Article Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Developing Countries Studied using Remote Sensing and In Situ Methods Kwasi Appeaning Addo * Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Accra Polytechnic, University of Ghana, P.O. Box STC 588, Accra, Ghana; E-Mail: appeaning@; Tel.: +233-208-169-555 Received: 16 December 2009; in revised form: 26 January 2010 / Accepted: 27 January 2010 / Published: 2 February 2010 Abstract: Urban farming, practiced by about 800 million people globally, has contributed significantly to food security and food safety. The practice has sustained livelihood of the urban and peri-urban low income dwellers in developing countries for many years. Its popularity among the urban low income is largely due to lack of formal jobs and as a means of adding up to household income. There is increasing need to sustainably manage urban farming in developing nations in recent times. Population increase due to rural-urban migration and natural, coupled with infrastructure developments are competing with urban farming for available space and scarce resources such as water for irrigation. Lack of reliable data on the extent of urban/peri-urban areas being used for farming has affected developing sustainable policies to manage urban farming in Accra. Using ground based survey methods to map the urban farmlands are inherently problematic and prohibitively expensive. This has influenced accurate assessment of the future role of urban farming in enhancing food security. Remote sensing, however, allows areas being used as urban farmlands to be rapidly established at relatively low cost. This paper will review advances in the use of remote sensing technology to develop an integrated monitoring technique for u