Monitoring global biodiversity from space through remotely sensing geospatial patterns has
high potential to add to our knowledge acquired by field observation. Although a framework …

Safeguarding the diversity of natural and semi-natural habitats in Europe is one of the aims
set out by the Habitats Directive (Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural …

Land use/land cover (LULC) changes are among the most significant human-caused global
variations affecting the natural environment and ecosystems. Pakistan's LULC patterns have …

Monitoring protected areas and their surrounds at local to regional scales is essential given
their vulnerability to anthropogenic pressures, including those associated with climatic …

Land use and land cover data play a central role in climate change assessments. These
data originate from different sources and inventory techniques. Each source of land …

Remote Sensing (RS) data and techniques, in combination with GIS and landscape metrics,
are fundamental to analyse and characterise Land Cover (LC) and its changes. The case …

For the two of the most important agricultural commodities, soybean and corn, remote
sensing plays a substantial role in delivering timely information on the crop area for …

We have developed a new hierarchical European Landscape Classification that can be
used as a framework for, eg, indicator reporting and environmental sampling. Landscapes …

Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) represents the most innovative new
trend for processing remote sensing images that has appeared during the last decade …

Object-based methods for image analysis have the advantage of incorporating spatial
context and mutual relationships between objects. Few studies have explored the …