Environmental governance has the potential to be significantly transformed by Smart Earth
technologies, which deploy enhanced environmental monitoring via combinations of …

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) represents a growing source of potentially
valuable data for many applications, including land cover map validation. It is still an …

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) are sites identified as being globally important
for the conservation of bird populations on the basis of an internationally agreed set of …

Abstract The most recent Global Slavery Index estimates that there are 40.3 million people
enslaved globally. The UN's Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development Goal number 8 …

Effective conservation planning relies on the accurate identification of anthropogenic land
cover. However, accessing localized information can be difficult or impossible in develo** …

Accurate inundation maps for flooded wetlands and rivers are a critical resource for their
management and conservation. In this paper, we automate a method (thresholding of the …

This is the third in a series of independent research papers attempting to improve the quality
of descriptive data and analysis of tailings facility failures globally focusing on the relative …

The land area covered by freely available very high-resolution (VHR) imagery has grown
dramatically over recent years, which has considerable relevance for forest observation and …

Abstract Information about land cover and land use is needed for a wide range of
applications such as nature protection and biodiversity, forest and water management …

Benchmark datasets play an important role in evaluating remote sensing image retrieval
(RSIR) methods. At present, several small-scale benchmark datasets for RSIR are publicly …