AI security for geoscience and remote sensing: Challenges and future trends

Y Xu, T Bai, W Yu, S Chang… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have significantly intensified research in the
geoscience and remote sensing (RS) field. AI algorithms, especially deep learning-based …

[HTML][HTML] Remote sensing for monitoring rangeland condition: current status and development of methods

A Retallack, G Finlayson, B Ostendorf, K Clarke… - Environmental and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the current status and development of remote sensing methods for
monitoring rangeland condition. Remote sensing offers ideal solutions for assessing …

Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

H Chu, X Luo, Z Ouyang, WS Chan, S Dengel… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
Large datasets of greenhouse gas and energy surface-atmosphere fluxes measured with
the eddy-covariance technique (eg, FLUXNET2015, AmeriFlux BASE) are widely used to …

Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 US Southwest hot drought

MP Dannenberg, D Yan, ML Barnes… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's ecosystems are increasingly threatened by “hot drought,” which occurs when hot air
temperatures coincide with precipitation deficits, intensifying the hydrological, physiological …

[HTML][HTML] Fire needs annual grasses more than annual grasses need fire

JT Smith, BW Allred, CS Boyd, KW Davies… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sagebrush ecosystems of western North America are experiencing widespread loss and
degradation by invasive annual grasses. Positive feedbacks between fire and annual …

A sagebrush conservation design to proactively restore America's sagebrush biome

K Doherty, DM Theobald, JB Bradford… - Open-File Report …, 2022 - research.fs.usda.gov
A working group of experts with diverse backgrounds and disciplinary expertise was
assembled to conceptualize a spatially explicit conservation design to support and inform …

Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States

KT Davis, MD Robles, KB Kemp, PE Higuera… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Increasing fire severity and warmer, drier postfire conditions are making forests in the
western United States (West) vulnerable to ecological transformation. Yet, the relative …

The elevational ascent and spread of exotic annual grass dominance in the Great Basin, USA

JT Smith, BW Allred, CS Boyd… - Diversity and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim In the western United States, sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) and salt desert
shrublands are rapidly transitioning to communities dominated by exotic annual grasses, a …

[HTML][HTML] A strategic and science-based framework for management of invasive annual grasses in the sagebrush biome

CS Boyd, MK Creutzburg, AV Kumar, JT Smith… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the last 20 years, the North American sagebrush biome has lost over 500 000 ha of intact
and largely intact sagebrush plant communities on an annual basis. Much of this loss has …

Satellite solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and near-infrared reflectance capture complementary aspects of dryland vegetation productivity dynamics

X Wang, JA Biederman, JF Knowles, RL Scott… - Remote sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mounting evidence indicates dryland ecosystems play an important role in driving the
interannual variability and trend of the terrestrial carbon sink. Nevertheless, our …