[HTML][HTML] Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts

MA Wulder, DP Roy, VC Radeloff, TR Loveland… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Since 1972, the Landsat program has been continually monitoring the Earth, to now provide
50 years of digital, multispectral, medium spatial resolution observations. Over this time …

A review of the methods available for estimating soil moisture and its implications for water resource management

P Dobriyal, A Qureshi, R Badola, SA Hussain - Journal of Hydrology, 2012‏ - Elsevier
The maintenance of elevated soil moisture is an important ecosystem service of the natural
ecosystems. Understanding the patterns of soil moisture distribution is useful to a wide …

Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

MA Wulder, TR Loveland, DP Roy, CJ Crawford… - Remote sensing of …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Formal planning and development of what became the first Landsat satellite commenced
over 50 years ago in 1967. Now, having collected earth observation data for well over four …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019‏ - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

Progress in ecosystem services research: A guide for scholars and practitioners

AV Torres, C Tiwari, SF Atkinson - Ecosystem Services, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The study of ecosystem services enables the understanding of the services that ecosystems
provide at the landscape level by explaining the relationship between natural capital …

[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 …

Identifying areas susceptible to desertification in the Brazilian northeast

RMSP Vieira, J Tomasella, RCS Alvalá, MF Sestini… - Solid Earth, 2015‏ - se.copernicus.org
Approximately 57% of the Brazilian northeast region is recognized as semi-arid land and
has been undergoing intense land use processes in the last decades, which have resulted …

An over review of desertification in **njiang, Northwest China

X Yu, J Lei, X Gao - Journal of Arid Land, 2022‏ - Springer
Desertification research in arid and semi-arid regions has always been actively pursued. In
China, the problem of desertification in **njiang has also received extensive attention. Due …

Monitoring the long-term desertification process and assessing the relative roles of its drivers in Central Asia

L Jiang, G Jiapaer, A Bao, A Kurban, H Guo… - Ecological …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Desertification is one of the main ecological environmental problems in Central Asia. To
prevent and eradicate this problem, it is extremely urgent to monitor the long-term …

Density matters? Settlement expansion and land degradation in Peri-urban and rural districts of Italy

R Coluzzi, L Bianchini, G Egidi, P Cudlin… - Environmental impact …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Being a relatively less known driver of land vulnerability to degradation in Southern Europe,
the net impact of urban expansion on land quality depletion requires a comparative …