Remote Sensing

Localized versus wide-ranging effects of the post-Soviet wars in the Caucasus on agricultural abandonment
Wars are frequent and can affect land use substantially, but the effects of wars can vary greatly depending on their characteristics, …
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Resource pulses and human–wildlife conflicts: linking satellite indicators and ground data on forest productivity to predict brown bear damages
Pulsed resources have prominent effects on community and ecosystem dynamics; however, there is little research on how resource pulses …
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Societal drought vulnerability and the Syrian climate-conflict nexus are better explained by agriculture than meteorology
Droughts are often suspected to increase the risk of violent conflict through agricultural production shocks, and existing studies …
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Toward Causal Inference for Spatio-Temporal Data: Conflict and Forest Loss in Colombia
How does armed conflict influence tropical forest loss? For Colombia, both enhancing and reducing effect estimates have been reported. …
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Using historical spy satellite photographs and recent remote sensing data to identify high-conservation-value forests
High-conservation-value forests (HCVFs) are critically important for biodiversity and ecosystem service provisioning, but they face …
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Changes in the grasslands of the Caucasus based on Cumulative Endmember Fractions from the full 1987–2019 Landsat record
Grasslands are important for global biodiversity, food security, and climate change analyses, which makes mapping and monitoring of …
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Characterizing forest disturbances across the Argentine Dry Chaco based on Landsat time series
Forest loss in the tropics affects large areas, but whereas full forest conversions are routinely assessed, forest degradation patters …
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European primary forest database v2.0
Primary forests, defined here as forests where the signs of human impacts, if any, are strongly blurred due to decades without forest …
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How do habitat amount and habitat fragmentation drive time-delayed responses of biodiversity to land-use change?
Land-use change is a root cause of the extinction crisis, but links between habitat change and biodiversity loss are not fully …
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Regional matters: On the usefulness of regional land‐cover datasets in times of global change
Unprecedented amounts of analysis-ready Earth Observation (EO) data, combined with increasing computational power and new algorithms, …
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