Impact of agricultural land use in Central Asia: a review

A Hamidov, K Helming, D Balla - Agronomy for sustainable development, 2016 - Springer
Agriculture is major sector in the economy of Central Asia. The sustainable use of
agricultural land is therefore essential to economic growth, human well-being, social equity …

The role of Remote Sensing in land degradation assessments: opportunities and challenges

O Dubovyk - European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Land degradation (LD) is one of the biggest global challenges for the people's livelihoods
and environment. Remote Sensing plays an unprecedented role in LD map** …

[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 …

Impact of feature selection on the accuracy and spatial uncertainty of per-field crop classification using support vector machines

F Löw, U Michel, S Dech, C Conrad - ISPRS journal of photogrammetry …, 2013 - Elsevier
Crop map** is one major component of agricultural resource monitoring using remote
sensing. Yield or water demand modeling requires that both, the total surface that is …

Use of remote sensing indicators to assess effects of drought and human-induced land degradation on ecosystem health in Northeastern Brazil

DA Mariano, CAC dos Santos, BD Wardlow… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Land degradation (LD) is one of the most catastrophic outcomes of long-lasting drought
events and anthropogenic activities. Assessing climate and human-induced impacts on land …

Long-term agricultural land-cover change and potential for cropland expansion in the former Virgin Lands area of Kazakhstan

R Kraemer, AV Prishchepov, D Müller… - Environmental …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract During the Soviet Virgin Lands Campaign, approximately 23 million hectares (Mha)
of Eurasian steppe grassland were converted into cropland in Northern Kazakhstan from …

Groundwater salinity susceptibility map** using classifier ensemble and Bayesian machine learning models

A Mosavi, FS Hosseini, B Choubin, M Goodarzi… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Risk and susceptibility map** of groundwater salinity (GWS) are challenging tasks for
groundwater quality monitoring and management. Advancement of accurate prediction …

Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the normalized difference vegetation index of desertified areas in northern China

N Meng, N Wang, H Cheng, X Liu, Z Niu - Journal of Geographical …, 2023 - Springer
Vegetation plays a key role in maintaining ecosystem stability, promoting biodiversity
conservation, serving as windbreaks, and facilitating sand fixation in deserts. Based on the …

Climate contributions to vegetation variations in central Asian drylands: Pre-and post-USSR collapse

Y Zhou, L Zhang, R Fensholt, K Wang, I Vitkovskaya… - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
Central Asia comprises a large fraction of the world's drylands, known to be vulnerable to
climate change. We analyzed the inter-annual trends and the impact of climate variability in …

Map** cropland abandonment in the Aral Sea Basin with MODIS time series

F Löw, AV Prishchepov, F Waldner, O Dubovyk… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cropland abandonment is globally widespread and has strong repercussions for regional
food security and the environment. Statistics suggest that one of the hotspots of abandoned …