Remote sensing for monitoring tropical dryland forests: A review of current research, knowledge gaps and future directions for Southern Africa

RM David, NJ Rosser… - Environmental Research …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate change, manifest via rising temperatures, extreme drought, and associated
anthropogenic activities, has a negative impact on the health and development of tropical …

Sensitivity of global terrestrial ecosystems to climate variability

AWR Seddon, M Macias-Fauria, PR Long, D Benz… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The identification of properties that contribute to the persistence and resilience of
ecosystems despite climate change constitutes a research priority of global relevance. Here …

Using GIS tools to detect the land use/land cover changes during forty years in Lodhran District of Pakistan

S Hussain, M Mubeen, A Ahmad, W Akram… - … Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
Land use/land cover (LULC) change has serious implications for environment as LULC is
directly related to land degradation over a period of time and results in many changes in the …

Land use and land cover (LULC) change analysis using TM, ETM+ and OLI Landsat images in district of Okara, Punjab, Pakistan

S Hussain, M Mubeen, S Karuppannan - … and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts …, 2022 - Elsevier
Land use and land cover (LULC) changes are one of the world-wide variations which have
the most significant effects on the natural environment and ecosystem due to human …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring of land use–land cover change and potential causal factors of climate change in Jhelum district, Punjab, Pakistan, through GIS and multi-temporal …

M Majeed, A Tariq, MM Anwar, AM Khan, F Arshad… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Land use–land cover (LULC) alteration is primarily associated with land degradation,
especially in recent decades, and has resulted in various harmful changes in the landscape …

A model quantifying global vegetation resistance and resilience to short‐term climate anomalies and their relationship with vegetation cover

W De Keersmaecker, S Lhermitte, L Tits… - Global Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim In order to mitigate the ecological, economical and social consequences of future
climate change, we must understand and quantify the response of vegetation to short‐term …

The potential of satellite-observed crop phenology to enhance yield gap assessments in smallholder landscapes

JMA Duncan, J Dash, PM Atkinson - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Many of the undernourished people on the planet obtain their entitlements to food via
agricultural-based livelihood strategies, often on underperforming croplands and …

MODIS NDVI trends and fractional land cover change for improved assessments of vegetation degradation in Burkina Faso, West Africa

BJB Zoungrana, C Conrad, M Thiel… - Journal of Arid …, 2018 - Elsevier
Reduction of natural vegetation cover in the savannah of West Africa constitutes a pressing
environmental concern that may lead to soil degradation. With the aim to assess the …

Decreased vegetation growth in response to summer drought in Central Asia from 2000 to 2012

H Xu, X Wang, X Zhang - International journal of applied earth observation …, 2016 - Elsevier
Climate change scenarios predict that Central Asia may experience an increase in the
frequency and magnitude of temperature and precipitation extremes by the end of the 21st …

[HTML][HTML] The response and sensitivity of global vegetation to water stress: A comparison of different satellite-based NDVI products

Q Liu, F Yao, A Garcia-Garcia, J Zhang, J Li… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is an effective proxy for vegetation
activity and terrestrial productivity, and the widely used global NDVI products include the …