[HTML][HTML] Satellite remote sensing of savannas: Current status and emerging opportunities

AM Abdi, M Brandt, C Abel, R Fensholt - Journal of Remote Sensing, 2022 - spj.science.org
Savannas cover a wide climatic gradient across large portions of the Earth's land surface
and are an important component of the terrestrial biosphere. Savannas have been …

Meta-analysis of the impact of future climate change on the area of woody plant habitats in China

P Tian, Y Liu, J Ou - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Climate change poses a very serious threat to woody plants, and it is important to study its
impact on the distribution dynamics of woody plants in China. However, there are no …

Toward operational map** of woody canopy cover in tropical savannas using Google Earth Engine

JY Anchang, L Prihodko, W Ji, SS Kumar… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Savanna woody plants can store significant amounts of carbon while also providing
numerous other ecological and socio-economic benefits. However, they are significantly …

[HTML][HTML] Biomes of the world under climate change scenarios: increasing aridity and higher temperatures lead to significant shifts in natural vegetation

C Bonannella, T Hengl, L Parente, S de Bruin - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
The global potential distribution of biomes (natural vegetation) was modelled using 8,959
training points from the BIOME 6000 dataset and a stack of 72 environmental covariates …

Woody-biomass projections and drivers of change in sub-Saharan Africa

CW Ross, NP Hanan, L Prihodko, J Anchang… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Africa's ecosystems have an important role in global carbon dynamics, yet consensus is
lacking regarding the amount of carbon stored in woody vegetation and the potential …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting weak signals of the future: A system implementation based on Text Mining and Natural Language Processing

I Griol-Barres, S Milla, A Cebrián, H Fan, J Millet - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Organizations, companies and start-ups need to cope with constant changes on the market
which are difficult to predict. Therefore, the development of new systems to detect significant …

The MODIS global vegetation fractional cover product 2001–2018: Characteristics of vegetation fractional cover in grasslands and savanna woodlands

MJ Hill, JP Guerschman - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Vegetation Fractional Cover (VFC) is an important global indicator of land cover change,
land use practice and landscape, and ecosystem function. In this study, we present the …

Usage of MODIS NDVI to evaluate the effect of soil and water conservation measures on vegetation in Burkina Faso

C Nyamekye, S Schönbrodt‐Stitt… - Land Degradation & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The dramatic droughts in West Africa from the 1960s to the 1990s compelled Burkina Faso
to implement soil and water conservation (SWC) measures in the late 1970s. The purpose …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial plantation responses to periodic submergence in massive dam and reservoir riparian zones: changes in soil properties and bacterial community …

J Li, L Li, M Arif, D Ding, X Hu, J Zheng, Z Yuan, C Li - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This study focuses on plants in riparian zones that are very vulnerable due
to water stress and anthropogenic disturbances, which are particularly important regarding …

[HTML][HTML] Thirty years of land cover and fraction cover changes over the Sudano-Sahel using Landsat time series

N Souverijns, M Buchhorn, S Horion, R Fensholt… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Historical land cover maps are of high importance for scientists and policy makers studying
the dynamic character of land cover change in the Sudano-Sahel, including anthropogenic …