Remote sensing for monitoring tropical dryland forests: A review of current research, knowledge gaps and future directions for Southern Africa

RM David, NJ Rosser… - Environmental Research …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate change, manifest via rising temperatures, extreme drought, and associated
anthropogenic activities, has a negative impact on the health and development of tropical …

Spatiotemporal variation in land use land cover in the response to local climate change using multispectral remote sensing data

S Hussain, L Lu, M Mubeen, W Nasim, S Karuppannan… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climate change is likely to have serious social, economic, and environmental impacts on
farmers whose subsistence depends on nature. Land Use Land Cover (LULC) changes …

Monitoring the dynamic changes in vegetation cover using spatio-temporal remote sensing data from 1984 to 2020

S Hussain, S Qin, W Nasim, MA Bukhari, M Mubeen… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Anthropogenic activities and natural climate changes are the central driving forces of global
ecosystems and agriculture changes. Climate changes, such as rainfall and temperature …

Multifaceted responses of vegetation to average and extreme climate change over global drylands

L He, J Guo, W Yang, Q Jiang, L Chen… - Science of the total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Average climatic events describe the occurrence of weather or climate at an average value,
whereas extreme events are defined as events that exceed the upper or lower threshold …

Drought variability and land degradation in semiarid regions: Assessment using remote sensing data and drought indices (1982–2011)

SM Vicente-Serrano, D Cabello, M Tomás-Burguera… - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
We analyzed potential land degradation processes in semiarid regions worldwide using
long time series of remote sensing images and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index …

Forest fire pattern and vulnerability map** using deep learning in Nepal

B Mishra, S Panthi, S Poudel, BR Ghimire - Fire Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background In the last two decades, Nepal has experienced an increase in both forest fire
frequency and area, but very little is known about its spatiotemporal dimension. A limited …

Zoning of precipitation regimes on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and its surrounding areas responded by the vegetation distribution

FF Li, HL Lu, GQ Wang, ZY Yao, Q Li, J Qiu - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Compared with other factors influencing vegetation patterns, such as light and temperature,
precipitation has relatively large variability, especially on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) …

A review of earth observation-based analyses for major river basins

S Uereyen, C Kuenzer - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Regardless of political boundaries, river basins are a functional unit of the Earth's land
surface and provide an abundance of resources for the environment and humans. They …

Disentangling the relationships between net primary production and precipitation in southern Africa savannas using satellite observations from 1982 to 2010

L Zhu, J Southworth - Remote Sensing, 2013 - mdpi.com
To obtain a better understanding of the variability in net primary production (NPP) in
savannas is important for the study of the global carbon cycle and the management of this …

Climate legacy and lag effects on dryland plant communities in the southwestern US

EL Bunting, SM Munson, ML Villarreal - Ecological Indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
Climate change effects on vegetation will likely be strong in the southwestern US, which is
projected to experience large increases in temperature and changes in precipitation. Plant …