Global land cover map**: A review and uncertainty analysis

RG Congalton, J Gu, K Yadav, P Thenkabail… - Remote Sensing, 2014 - mdpi.com
Given the advances in remotely sensed imagery and associated technologies, several
global land cover maps have been produced in recent times including IGBP DISCover, UMD …

Biodiversity impacts and conservation implications of urban land expansion projected to 2050

RD Simkin, KC Seto, RI McDonald… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
As the global urban population is poised to grow by 2.5 billion over the next 30 y, urban land
conversions are expected to be an increasingly prominent driver of habitat and biodiversity …

Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature

P Jain, D Castellanos-Acuna, SCP Coogan… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent increases in regional wildfire activity have been linked to climate change. Here, we
analyse trends in observed global extreme fire weather and their meteorological drivers from …

A new generation of the United States National Land Cover Database: Requirements, research priorities, design, and implementation strategies

L Yang, S **, P Danielson, C Homer, L Gass… - ISPRS journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The US Geological Survey (USGS), in partnership with several federal agencies,
has developed and released four National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products over the …

Comparison of random forest and support vector machine classifiers for regional land cover map** using coarse resolution FY-3C images

T Adugna, W Xu, J Fan - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The type of algorithm employed to classify remote sensing imageries plays a great role in
affecting the accuracy. In recent decades, machine learning (ML) has received great …

[HTML][HTML] An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion

P Borrelli, DA Robinson, LR Fleischer, E Lugato… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Human activity and related land use change are the primary cause of accelerated soil
erosion, which has substantial implications for nutrient and carbon cycling, land productivity …

Land cover map** in northern high latitude permafrost regions with satellite data: Achievements and remaining challenges

A Bartsch, A Höfler, C Kroisleitner, AM Trofaier - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Most applications of land cover maps that have been derived from satellite data over the
Arctic require higher thematic detail than available in current global maps. A range of …

Countries and the global rate of soil erosion

D Wuepper, P Borrelli, R Finger - Nature sustainability, 2020 - nature.com
Soil erosion is a major threat to food security and ecosystem viability, as current rates are
orders of magnitude higher than natural soil formation. Governments around the world are …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene–HYDE 3.2

K Klein Goldewijk, A Beusen… - Earth System …, 2017 - essd.copernicus.org
This paper presents an update and extension of HYDE, the History Database of the Global
Environment (HYDE version 3.2). HYDE is an internally consistent combination of historical …

Increasing global vegetation browning hidden in overall vegetation greening: Insights from time-varying trends

N Pan, X Feng, B Fu, S Wang, F Ji, S Pan - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Global vegetation dynamics are of critical importance for understanding changes in
ecosystem structure and functioning and their responses to different natural and …