Preface -- Part 1. Large-Scale Weather Disasters: Early Detection & Monitoring From Space & In Situ Data -- Monitoring Droughts and Impacts on Crop Yield in UKRAINE from Weather and Satellite Data -- Early Detection and Monitoring Droughts form NOAA Environmental Satellite -- Flood Monitoring from SAR Data -- Satellite Rainfall Information for Flood Preparedness and Response -- Monitoring Severe Weather in UKRAINE with Satellite Data -- Daily Fire Occurrence in Ukraine from 2002 to 2008 -- Satellite-Based Systems for Agro-Meteorological Monitoring -- Part 2. Environment and Food Security: Diagnosis and Prediction -- Monitoring Droughts and Pastures Productivity in MONGOLIA Using NOAA-AVHRR Data -- Satellite-Derived Information on Snow Cover for Agriculture Applications in Ukraine -- Grain Yield Prediction in Russia.-Satellite-Based Crop Production Monitoring in Ukraine and Regional Food Security -- New Regression Models for Prediction of Grain Yield Anomalies from Satellite-based Vegetation Health Indices -- Phytosanitary Situation of Agrocenosis in Ukraine and New Technologies for Monitoring Harmful Organisms -- Part 3. Climate Change, Environment and Socioeconomics -- 30-Year Land Surface Trend from AVHRR-based Global Vegetation Health Data -- Global Warming, Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation, Thermohaline Catastrophe and their Impact on Climate of the North Atlantic Region -- Global Warming and Possible Changes in the Recurrences of Grain Crops Anomalies -- Regime Shifts in the Atmosphere and their Relationship to Abrupt Ocean Changes -- Glacier Degradation from GIS and Remote Sensing Data -- ENSO Impact on Vegetation -- Bio-Climatic Potential of Russia and Climate Change.-Part 4. Marine Ecosystem, Land Cover, Atmosphere & Anthropogenic Activities.-Consequences of Land and Marine Ecosystems Interaction for the Black Sea Coastal Zone -- Utilizing Satellite Data to Highlight High Ozone Concentration Events During Fire Episodes -- Geomagnetic Disturbances and Seismic Events in the Vrancea Zone from in Situ Data -- First Step towards Monitoring Surface Ozone Dynamics in Ukrainian.-Satellite Monitoring of Nitrogen Oxide Emissions -- Detection of Desertification Zones Using Multi-Year Remote Sensing Data -- Satellite Desertification Monitoring in Sahara -- Part 5. Satellite & In Situ Long Records for Trend Analysis, Modeling & Monitoring -- Global Vegetation Health: Long-Term Data Records -- Aero-Space Radar On-line Monitoring of Disasters in Ukraine -- Comparison of AVHRR-based Global Data Records -- Merging remote sensing and in situ data for estimation of energy balance components under climate change conditions: Ukrainian steppe zone -- Atmosphere aerosol properties measured with AERONET/PHOTONS sun-photometer over Kyiv during 2008-2009 -- Global Distribution of Magnetic Storm Fields and Relativistic Particles Fluxes -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Appendix 5.