Remote Sensing

How pollution legacies and land use histories shape post-communist forest cover trends in the Western Carpathians
Forests that encompass the border triangle of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia currently suffer from centuries of inadequate …
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Land cover mapping of large areas using chain classification of neighboring Landsat satellite images
Satellite imagery is the major data source for regional to global land cover maps. However, land cover mapping of large areas with …
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Land use change in Southern Romania after the collapse of socialism
The drastic socio-economic and political changes that occurred after the breakdown of socialism in Eastern Europe triggered widespread …
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Lost in transition: determinants of post-socialist cropland abandonment in Romania
The transition from command to market-oriented economies drastically affected land ownership and land management in Eastern Europe and …
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Using image texture to map farmland field size: a case study in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe provides unique opportunities to study changes in land use patterns, because much farmland became parcelized in the …
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A method to detect and correct single-band missing pixels in Landsat TM and ETM+ data
Human land use is the main driver of terrestrial ecosystems change, and remote sensing is an important tool to monitor these changes. …
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Cross-border Comparison of Post-socialist Farmland Abandonment in the Carpathians
Agricultural areas are declining in many areas of the world, often because socio-economic and political changes make agriculture less …
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Post-socialist land use change in the Carpathians
Broad-scale political and socio-economic conditions are powerful determinants of land use change. Yet, their relative importance is …
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Adaptation of a grazing gradient concept to heterogeneous Mediterranean rangelands using cost surface modelling
Livestock grazing has been an important factor in shaping Mediterranean rangelands. Despite their long history of utilisation, recent …
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Post-socialist forest disturbance in the Carpathian border region of Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine
Forests provide important ecosystem services, and protected areas around the world are intended to reduce human disturbance on forests. …
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