Rugged terrain distorts optical remote sensing observations and subsequently impacts land
cover classification and biophysical and biochemical parameter retrieval over mountainous …

In mountainous environments, topography strongly affects the reflectance due to illumination
effects and cast shadows, which introduce errors in land cover classifications. However …

Nepal's forest cover nearly doubled over the last three decades. While Community Forest
(CF) management and agricultural abandonment are primary drivers of forest cover …

Understanding grassland habitat dynamics in space and time is crucial for evaluating the
effectiveness of protection measures and develo** sustainable management practices …

Despite widespread implementation of community forest (CF) management over the last 40
years, limited knowledge exists on CF-level processes that link introduction of CF …

The in-situ quantification of turbulent flux and evapotranspiration (ET) is necessary to
monitor crop performance in stressful environments. Although cacti can withstand stressful …

The normalization of topographic effects on vegetation indices (VIs) is a prerequisite for their
proper use in mountainous areas. We assessed the topographic effects on the normalized …

Soil erosion substantially implicates global nutrient and carbon cycling of the land surface.
Its monitoring is crucial for assessing and managing global land productivity and socio …

Land use-land cover (LULC) data are critical inputs for policy and scientific research in
hydrology, climatology, territory planning and conservation. Colombia, a megadiverse …

Topographic effects in medium and high spatial resolution remote sensing images greatly
limit the application of quantitative parameter retrieval and analysis in mountainous areas …