A survey of computer vision techniques for forest characterization and carbon monitoring tasks

S Illarionova, D Shadrin, P Tregubova, V Ignatiev… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Estimation of terrestrial carbon balance is one of the key tasks in the understanding and
prognosis of climate change impacts and the development of tools and policies according to …

Ecological quality assessment and monitoring using a time-series remote sensing-based ecological index (ts-RSEI)

C Sun, J Li, Y Liu, L Cao, J Zheng, Z Yang… - GIScience & Remote …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Ecological quality assessment is fundamental to revealing changes in ecological
environments before the development of effective ecological conservation policies. The …

Integrating GEDI and Landsat: Spaceborne lidar and four decades of optical imagery for the analysis of forest disturbances and biomass changes in Italy

S Francini, G D'Amico, E Vangi, C Borghi, G Chirici - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Forests play a prominent role in the battle against climate change, as they absorb a relevant
part of human carbon emissions. However, precisely because of climate change, forest …

Integrated use of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data and open-source machine learning algorithms for land cover map** in a Mediterranean region

G De Luca, J MN Silva, S Di Fazio… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper aims to develop a supervised classification integrating synthetic aperture radar
(SAR) Sentinel-1 (S1) and optical Sentinel-2 (S2) data for land use/land cover (LULC) …

Continuous monitoring and sub-annual change detection in high-latitude forests using Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 data

C Mulverhill, NC Coops, A Achim - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Spatially and temporally precise monitoring of forest resources is becoming increasingly
vital in rapidly changing environmental and economic conditions. However, recent …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding dynamics of forest ecosystem services governance: A socio-ecological-technical-analytical framework

S Sorge, C Mann, C Schleyer, L Loft, M Spacek… - Ecosystem Services, 2022 - Elsevier
Little is known about the emergence and development of novel governance approaches for
forest ecosystem services provision, what drives them, and how they can be fostered …

Spruce bark beetle outbreak prediction through automatic classification of Sentinel-2 imagery

A Bozzini, S Francini, G Chirici, A Battisti, M Faccoli - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity, posing a threat to forest
ecosystems and eliciting forest-pest outbreaks. In the southern Italian Alps, a dramatic …

Wall-to-wall map** of forest biomass and wood volume increment in Italy

F Giannetti, G Chirici, E Vangi, P Corona, F Maselli… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Several political initiatives aim to achieve net-zero emissions by the middle of the twenty-first
century. In this context, forests are crucial as a carbon sink to store unavoidable emissions …

MERIDA HRES: A new high‐resolution reanalysis dataset for Italy

F Viterbo, S Sperati, B Vitali, F D'Amico… - Meteorological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Power utilities are increasingly emphasizing the need for high‐resolution reanalysis
datasets to develop resilience plans for protecting and managing infrastructure against …

[HTML][HTML] Disturbance map** in Arctic tundra improved by a planning workflow for drone studies: Advancing tools for future ecosystem monitoring

I Eischeid, EM Soininen, JJ Assmann, RA Ims… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Arctic is under great pressure due to climate change. Drones are increasingly used as a
tool in ecology and may be especially valuable in rapidly changing and remote landscapes …