Assessing land degradation and desertification using vegetation index data: Current frameworks and future directions

TP Higginbottom, E Symeonakis - Remote Sensing, 2014‏ - mdpi.com
Land degradation and desertification has been ranked as a major environmental and social
issue for the coming decades. Thus, the observation and early detection of degradation is a …

Dynamics and resilience of rangelands and pastoral peoples around the globe

RS Reid, ME Fernández-Giménez… - Annual Review of …, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
Rangelands cover more of Earth's land surface than any other type of land. They have
variable and harsh climates, are sparsely populated and remote from markets, produce …

Copernicus global land cover layers—collection 2

M Buchhorn, M Lesiv, NE Tsendbazar, M Herold… - Remote Sensing, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
In May 2019, Collection 2 of the Copernicus Global Land Cover layers was released. Next to
a global discrete land cover map at 100 m resolution, a set of cover fraction layers is …

[HTML][HTML] Divergent changes in vegetation greenness, productivity, and rainfall use efficiency are characteristic of ecological restoration towards high-quality …

Y Yu, T Hua, L Chen, Z Zhang, P Pereira - Engineering, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Globally, vegetation has been changing dramatically. The vegetation–water dynamic is key
to understanding ecosystem structure and functioning in water-limited ecosystems …

[كتاب][B] Use of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to assess Land degradation at multiple scales: current status, future trends, and practical …

GT Yengoh, D Dent, L Olsson, AE Tengberg… - 2015‏ - books.google.com
This report examines the scientific basis for the use of remotely sensed data, particularly
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), primarily for the assessment of land …

Desertification trends in the Northeast of Brazil over the period 2000–2016

J Tomasella, RMSP Vieira, AA Barbosa… - International Journal of …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Information about changes in land use and land cover is useful to address issues
related to drylands management, as well as to support decision-making related to the …

[HTML][HTML] The greening of the Sahara: Past changes and future implications

FSR Pausata, M Gaetani, G Messori, A Berg… - One Earth, 2020‏ - cell.com
In the future, the Sahara and Sahelian regions could experience more rainfall than today as
a result of climate change. Wetter periods, termed African humid periods, occurred in the …

[PDF][PDF] Biomass productivity-based map** of global land degradation hotspots

QB Le, E Nkonya, A Mirzabaev - Economics of land degradation …, 2016‏ - library.oapen.org
Land degradation affects negatively the livelihoods and food security of global population.
There have been recurring efforts by the international community to identify the global extent …

Remote sensing of vegetation dynamics in drylands: Evaluating vegetation optical depth (VOD) using AVHRR NDVI and in situ green biomass data over West African …

F Tian, M Brandt, YY Liu, A Verger, T Tagesson… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Monitoring long-term biomass dynamics in drylands is of great importance for many
environmental applications including land degradation and global carbon cycle modeling …

Codominant water control on global interannual variability and trends in land surface phenology and greenness

M Forkel, M Migliavacca, K Thonicke… - Global change …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Identifying the relative importance of climatic and other environmental controls on the
interannual variability and trends in global land surface phenology and greenness is …