The global demand for food and bioenergy changes associated with land use and land
cover change (LULCC) has raised concerns about the environment, global warming, and …

Forest inventory and management requirements are changing rapidly in the context of an
increasingly complex set of economic, environmental, and social policy objectives …

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems provides a
synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems …

Biodiversity is essential to healthy ecosystem function, influencing productivity and
resilience to disturbance. Biodiversity loss endangers essential ecosystem services and …

The study presents the preliminary results of two classification exercises assessing the
capabilities of pre-operational (August 2015) Sentinel-2 (S2) data for map** crop types …

Building extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images is of great significance in
urban planning, population statistics, and economic forecast. However, automatic building …

Forest vegetation classification and structure measurements are fundamental steps for
planning, monitoring, and evaluating large-scale forest changes including restoration …

Abstract Knowledge of tree species is required to inform management, planning, and
monitoring of forests as well as to characterize habitat and ecosystem function. Remotely …

Currently, climate change poses a global threat, which may compromise the sustainability of
agriculture, forestry and other land surface systems. In a changing world scenario, the …

Invasive plant species can pose major threats to biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and
services. Satellite based remote sensing has evolved as an important technology to spatially …