A review of large area monitoring of land cover change using Landsat data

MC Hansen, TR Loveland - Remote sensing of Environment, 2012 - Elsevier
Landsat data constitute the longest record of global-scale medium spatial resolution earth
observation data. As a result, the current methods for large area monitoring of land cover …

Forest fragmentation in China and its effect on biodiversity

J Liu, DA Coomes, L Gibson, G Hu, J Liu… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use change is fragmenting natural ecosystems, with major consequences for
biodiversity. This paper reviews fragmentation trends–historical and current–in China, the …

A global view of shifting cultivation: Recent, current, and future extent

A Heinimann, O Mertz, S Frolking… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Mosaic landscapes under shifting cultivation, with their dynamic mix of managed and natural
land covers, often fall through the cracks in remote sensing–based land cover and land use …

[LIBRO][B] World atlas of mangroves

M Spalding - 2010 - taylorfrancis.com
Published with ISME, ITTO and project partners FAO, UNESCO-MAB, UNEP-WCMC and
UNU-INWEH This atlas provides the first truly global assessment of the state of the world's …

Map** plantations in Myanmar by fusing Landsat-8, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 data along with systematic error quantification

A Poortinga, K Tenneson, A Shapiro, Q Nquyen… - Remote sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Forests in Southeast Asia are experiencing some of the highest rates of deforestation and
degradation in the world, with natural forest species being replaced by cropland and …

The fate of wild tigers

E Dinerstein, C Loucks, E Wikramanayake… - …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Wild tigers are in a precarious state. Habitat loss and intense poaching of tigers and their
prey, coupled with inadequate government efforts to maintain tiger populations, have …

Combined Landsat and L-band SAR data improves land cover classification and change detection in dynamic tropical landscapes

JDT De Alban, GM Connette, P Oswald, EL Webb - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Robust quantitative estimates of land use and land cover change are necessary to develop
policy solutions and interventions aimed towards sustainable land management. Here, we …

Revealing the role of livelihood assets in livelihood strategies: Towards enhancing conservation and livelihood development in the Hara Biosphere Reserve, Iran

MD Pour, AA Barati, H Azadi, J Scheffran - Ecological Indicators, 2018 - Elsevier
Livelihood in Iran's rural areas, as elsewhere in the develo** world, is highly intertwined
with the harvesting of environmental resources, leading to severe environmental …

Monitoring conterminous United States (CONUS) land cover change with web-enabled Landsat data (WELD)

MC Hansen, A Egorov, PV Potapov… - Remote sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Forest cover loss and bare ground gain from 2006 to 2010 for the conterminous United
States (CONUS) were quantified at a 30 m spatial resolution using Web-Enabled Landsat …

Deforestation in the Ayeyarwady Delta and the conservation implications of an internationally-engaged Myanmar

EL Webb, NRA Jachowski, J Phelps, DA Friess… - Global Environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
Myanmar is a country of huge biodiversity importance that is undergoing major political
change, bringing with it new international engagement. This includes access to international …