Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

Y Tramblay, A Koutroulis, L Samaniego… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Droughts can have strong environmental and socio-economic impacts in the Mediterranean
region, in particular for countries relying on rain-fed agricultural production, but also in areas …

A review on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and imaging sensors for monitoring and assessing plant stresses

JGA Barbedo - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a valuable tool to collect data in a variety of
contexts. Their use in agriculture is particularly suitable, as those areas are often vast …

High-resolution map** of losses and gains of Earth's tidal wetlands

NJ Murray, TA Worthington, P Bunting, S Duce… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Tidal wetlands are expected to respond dynamically to global environmental change, but the
extent to which wetland losses have been offset by gains remains poorly understood. We …

Copernicus global land cover layers—collection 2

M Buchhorn, M Lesiv, NE Tsendbazar, M Herold… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
In May 2019, Collection 2 of the Copernicus Global Land Cover layers was released. Next to
a global discrete land cover map at 100 m resolution, a set of cover fraction layers is …

[HTML][HTML] Agricultural and forestry trade drives large share of tropical deforestation emissions

F Pendrill, UM Persson, J Godar, T Kastner… - Global environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Deforestation, the second largest source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, is
largely driven by expanding forestry and agriculture. However, despite agricultural …

A synthesis of land use/land cover studies: Definitions, classification systems, meta-studies, challenges and knowledge gaps on a global landscape

R Nedd, K Light, M Owens, N James, E Johnson… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Land is a natural resource that humans have utilized for life and various activities. Land
use/land cover change (LULCC) has been of great concern to many countries over the …

[HTML][HTML] Operational high resolution land cover map production at the country scale using satellite image time series

J Inglada, A Vincent, M Arias, B Tardy, D Morin… - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
A detailed and accurate knowledge of land cover is crucial for many scientific and
operational applications, and as such, it has been identified as an Essential Climate …