Yingying Dong - Monitoring of Desert Locust in Africa and Asia

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Food is the foundation of human survival, and food security is the cornerstone of global sustainable development and social stability. Food production and its safety are eternal topics throughout human society. With the continuous development of science and technology, human beings have always maintained ethnic continuity through adaptive changes to the food production security system at all stages of history. In recent years, global climate change has intensified. Disasters such as droughts, floods, earthquakes, crop diseases, and pests are increasingly raging. In particular, the outbreak and accelerated migration and the spread of major global pests have put countries in the world under the threat of food security shortage. Using the latest scientific and technological achievements to improve and innovate the food production security system is the mission of Chinese researchers and a considerable challenge for approximately 7.6 billion people in the world coping with famine.

In the food production security system, the monitoring, prevention, early warning, and control of diseases and pests are crucial. In the field of plant protection, traditional pest monitoring methods based on the ground point sampling and weather-driven trend of early warning mode can no longer meet the needs for efficient, accurate, and green prevention and control of pests. It is urgent to promote the scientific innovation and technological development of pest forecasting, prevention, and management and effectively promote the system reform in response to the new situation of global changes. In the context of interdisciplinarity, diseases and pests forecasting urgently needs the help of remote sensing technology to provide continuous spatial-temporal information monitoring methods and spatial-temporal linkage information processing mode. Firstly, promote the innovative development of the spatial-temporal monitoring and early warning model of diseases and pests by organically combining diseases and pests biology with remote sensing science; secondly, make full use of the advantages of remote sensing in the expansion and extension of temporal and spatial scales, and combine prevention and control needs to build a bridge from scientific research results to practical applications to help promote and implement green prevention and control; finally, establish pest monitoring and early warning spatial information service platforms, joint international and domestic major institutions and government functional departments to prevent and control diseases and pests, provide scientific and technological service support to ensure agricultural production, and realize new theories, methods, and technologies for pest control and disease prevention under the background of global changes.

The desert locust is the most destructive and major migratory pest in the world. In this book, the research team studied desert locusts breeding area quantitative extraction, migration path dynamic analysis, and damage monitoring technology, established a desert locust spatial information system, and produced pest monitoring application products. It can provide important scientific and technological support for ensuring global food security, ecological security and maintaining regional stability. Dr. Yingying Dong, from the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, is an outstanding young innovative talent in the field of remote sensing monitoring and forecasting of vegetation pests and diseases. She has made a series of research achievements in data processing, monitoring, early warning modeling, intelligent system development, promotion, application, etc. This book analyzes the occurrence characteristics of desert locusts and the current status of monitoring and early warning research, taking the scientific research and practical applications carried out by the research team in the field of desert locust monitoring as examples, and comprehensively expounds on the methods and key technologies of remote sensing monitoring of desert locusts. This book innovatively combines fundamental theories and cutting-edge technologies to provide data, methods, and technical support for desert locust control. It is currently a vital reference material that is rarely seen in the field of spatial information technology applications and plant protection research and teaching.

In the era of big data, the rapid development of remote sensing technology has effectively promoted scientific research and its application. We hope the publication of this book will benefit remote sensing workers, scientific researchers, and extension individuals related to pest control. We hope this book could arouse colleagues, especially young scholars, to further explore remote sensing monitoring of pest. I sincerely hope the authors can bravely climb the peak of science, make more excellent progress in this field, and make new contributions to the promotion of remote sensing science.