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 …

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 …

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 …

Globally, vegetation has been changing dramatically. The vegetation–water dynamic is key
to understanding ecosystem structure and functioning in water-limited ecosystems …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Monitoring long-term biomass dynamics in drylands is of great importance for many
environmental applications including land degradation and global carbon cycle modeling …

Identifying the relative importance of climatic and other environmental controls on the
interannual variability and trends in global land surface phenology and greenness is …

Areas affected by land degradation in Sub-Saharan West Africa between 1982 and 2012 are
identified using time-series analysis of vegetation index data derived from satellites. The …