[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 …

Mechanisms and impacts of Earth system tipping elements

S Wang, A Foster, EA Lenz, JD Kessler… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tipping elements are components of the Earth system which may respond nonlinearly to
anthropogenic climate change by transitioning toward substantially different long‐term …

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

BBN Strassburg, A Iribarrem, HL Beyer, CL Cordeiro… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Extensive ecosystem restoration is increasingly seen as being central to conserving
biodiversity and stabilizing the climate of the Earth. Although ambitious national and global …

A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth

N Lang, W Jetz, K Schindler, JD Wegner - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - nature.com
The worldwide variation in vegetation height is fundamental to the global carbon cycle and
central to the functioning of ecosystems and their biodiversity. Geospatially explicit and …

Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission

L Duncanson, JR Kellner, J Armston, R Dubayah… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is collecting spaceborne
full waveform lidar data with a primary science goal of producing accurate estimates of forest …

Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015

G Ceccherini, G Duveiller, G Grassi, G Lemoine… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Forests provide a series of ecosystem services that are crucial to our society. In the
European Union (EU), forests account for approximately 38% of the total land surface. These …

[HTML][HTML] The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations

M Santoro, O Cartus, N Carvalhais… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
The terrestrial forest carbon pool is poorly quantified, in particular in regions with low forest
inventory capacity. By combining multiple satellite observations of synthetic aperture radar …

Deforestation-induced climate change reduces carbon storage in remaining tropical forests

Y Li, PM Brando, DC Morton, DM Lawrence… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Biophysical effects from deforestation have the potential to amplify carbon losses but are
often neglected in carbon accounting systems. Here we use both Earth system model …

Land-use and climate change risks in the Amazon and the need of a novel sustainable development paradigm

CA Nobre, G Sampaio, LS Borma… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
For half a century, the process of economic integration of the Amazon has been based on
intensive use of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, which has brought …

Mapping forest height and aboveground biomass by integrating ICESat‐2, Sentinel‐1 and Sentinel‐2 data using Random Forest algorithm in northwest Himalayan …

S Nandy, R Srinet, H Padalia - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The present study aims to map forest canopy height by integrating ICESat‐2 and Sentinel‐1
data and investigate the effect of integrating forest canopy height information with Sentinel‐2 …