Since 1972, the Landsat program has been continually monitoring the Earth, to now provide
50 years of digital, multispectral, medium spatial resolution observations. Over this time …

Soils under natural, tropical forests provide essential ecosystem services that have been
shaped by long-term soil–vegetation feedbacks. However, deforestation of tropical forest …

Los estudios sobre el cambio en la cobertura y uso del suelo proporcionan la base para
conocer las tendencias de los procesos de deforestación, degradación, desertificación y …

Los humanos han transformado gran parte de la superficie del planeta en los últimos 300
años. La tala de bosques, las prácticas agrícolas de subsistencia, la intensificación de la …

Nowadays, cities meet numerous sustainable development challenges in facing growing
urban populations and expanding urban areas. The monitoring and simulation of land use …

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 …

The assessment of land use land cover change is extremely important for understanding the
relationship between humans and nature. The enormous changes at a regional scale and …

Abstract Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more
sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of …

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 …

Los bosques de la Amazonia peruana han experimentado importantes transformaciones
desde mediados del siglo pasado. Este trabajo evaluó los Cambios de Cobertura y Uso del …