Remote Sensing

Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature
Anthropogenic changes to land cover (LCC) remain common, but continuing land scarcity promotes the widespread intensification of land …
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Land-use change in the Caucasus during and after the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Socioeconomic shocks can shape future land-use trajectories. Armed conflicts are an extreme form of a socioeconomic shock, but our …
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Mapping Land Management Regimes in Western Ukraine Using Optical and SAR Data
The global demand for agricultural products is surging due to population growth, more meat-based diets, and the increasing role of …
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Modelling avian biodiversity using raw, unclassified satellite imagery
Applications of remote sensing for biodiversity conservation typically rely on image classifications that do not capture variability …
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A Pixel-Based Landsat Compositing Algorithm for Large Area Land Cover Mapping
Information on the changing land surface is required at high spatial resolutions as many processes cannot be resolved using coarse …
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Agricultural land change in the Carpathian ecoregion after the breakdown of socialism and expansion of the European Union
Widespread changes of agricultural land use occurred in Eastern Europe since the collapse of socialism and the European Union’s …
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Continued loss of temperate old-growth forests in the Romanian Carpathians despite an increasing protected area network
Old-growth forests around the world are vanishing rapidly and have been lost almost completely from the European temperate forest …
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Landsat-based mapping of post-Soviet land-use change to assess the effectiveness of the Oksky and Mordovsky protected areas in European Russia
Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) is the main cause of the global biodiversity crisis and protected areas are critical to prevent …
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Mapping the extent of abandoned farmland in Central and Eastern Europe using MODIS time series satellite data
The demand for agricultural products continues to grow rapidly, but further agricultural expansion entails substantial environmental …
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Post-Soviet cropland abandonment and carbon sequestration in European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
Widespread cropland abandonment occurred after the collapse of socialism across the former Soviet Union, but the rates and spatial …
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