Vegetation greenness has been increasing globally since at least 1981, when satellite
technology enabled large-scale vegetation monitoring. The greening phenomenon, together …

Plant phenology, the annually recurring sequence of plant developmental stages, is
important for plant functioning and ecosystem services and their biophysical and …

Land change is a cause and consequence of global environmental change,. Changes in
land use and land cover considerably alter the Earth's energy balance and biogeochemical …

Global vegetation and associated ecosystem services critically depend on soil moisture
availability which has decreased in many regions during the last three decades. While …

Landsat 8, a NASA and USGS collaboration, acquires global moderate-resolution
measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in the visible, near-infrared, short …

As the Arctic warms, vegetation is responding, and satellite measures indicate widespread
greening at high latitudes. This 'greening of the Arctic'is among the world's most important …

Climate change is expected to impact the functioning of the entire Earth system. However,
detecting changes in ecosystem dynamics and attributing such change to anthropogenic …

Abstract Climate Data Records of soil moisture are fundamental for improving our
understanding of long-term dynamics in the coupled water, energy, and carbon cycles over …

At over 40 years, the Landsat satellites provide the longest temporal record of space-based
land surface observations, and the successful 2013 launch of the Landsat-8 is continuing …

New burned area datasets and top-down constraints from atmospheric concentration
measurements of pyrogenic gases have decreased the large uncertainty in fire emissions …