Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening

S Piao, X Wang, T Park, C Chen, XU Lian… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Vegetation greenness has been increasing globally since at least 1981, when satellite
technology enabled large-scale vegetation monitoring. The greening phenomenon, together …

[HTML][HTML] Recent trends and remaining challenges for optical remote sensing of Arctic tundra vegetation: A review and outlook

A Beamish, MK Raynolds, H Epstein, GV Frost… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
A systematic review and inventory of recent research relating to optical remote sensing of
Arctic vegetation was conducted, and thematic and geographical trends were summarized …

Long-term trends of vegetation greenness under different urban development intensities in 889 global cities

Q Zhong, Z Li - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Long-term trends in urban vegetation greenness were systematically analyzed. However,
long-term trends in vegetation greenness under different urban development intensities …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on vegetation change: Evidence from typical areas in China

K Zheng, L Tan, Y Sun, Y Wu, Z Duan, Y Xu, C Gao - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the interactions of climate-vegetation and human-vegetation has been a
critical issue and increasingly attracting attention from scientific community in the field of …

Regulating ecosystem services and green infrastructure: Assessment of urban heat island effect mitigation in the municipality of Rome, Italy

F Marando, E Salvatori, A Sebastiani, L Fusaro… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is one of the main environmental impacts of
urbanization, affecting directly human health and well-being of the city dwellers, and also …

[HTML][HTML] Learning the variations in annual spectral-temporal metrics to enhance the transferability of regression models for land cover fraction monitoring

VD Pham, F Thiel, D Frantz, A Okujeni, F Schug… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Monitoring the Earth by annually map** land cover (LC) fractions helps to better
understand the ongoing processes and changes of land use and land management. At 10 to …

An evaluation of SMOS L-band vegetation optical depth (L-VOD) data sets: high sensitivity of L-VOD to above-ground biomass in Africa

NJ Rodríguez-Fernández, A Mialon, S Mermoz… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
The vegetation optical depth (VOD) measured at microwave frequencies is related to the
vegetation water content and provides information complementary to visible/infrared …

Global urbanicity is associated with brain and behaviour in young people

J Xu, X Liu, Q Li, R Goldblatt, W Qin, F Liu… - Nature human …, 2022 - nature.com
Urbanicity is a growing environmental challenge for mental health. Here, we investigate
correlations of urbanicity with brain structure and function, neuropsychology and mental …

[HTML][HTML] NDVI dynamics and its response to climate change and reforestation in northern China

X Lin, J Niu, R Berndtsson, X Yu, L Zhang, X Chen - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Vegetation is an important component of the terrestrial ecosystem that plays an essential
role in the exchange of water and energy in climate and biogeochemical cycles. This study …

[HTML][HTML] Map** urban-rural gradients of settlements and vegetation at national scale using Sentinel-2 spectral-temporal metrics and regression-based unmixing with …

F Schug, D Frantz, A Okujeni, S van Der Linden… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The increasing impact of humans on land and ongoing global population growth requires an
improved understanding of land cover (LC) and land use (LU) processes related to …