Using CORONA Imagery to Study Land Use and Land Cover Change—A Review of Applications

M Shahbandeh, D Kaim, J Kozak - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
CORONA spy satellites offer high spatial resolution imagery acquired in the 1960s and early
1970s and declassified in 1995, and they have been used in various scientific fields, such as …

Impact of Iran's forest nationalization law on forest cover changes over six decades: A case study of a zagros sparse coppice oak forest

H Beygi Heidarlou, A Banj Shafiei, V Nasiri, MD Niţă… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Forest nationalization policies in developing countries have often led to a reduction in local
forest ownership rights and short-or long-term exploitative behaviors of stakeholders. The …

Dune movement under climatic changes on the north‐eastern Tibetan Plateau as recorded by long‐term satellite observation versus ERA‐5 reanalysis

L Dörwald, F Lehmkuhl, J Walk… - Earth Surface …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The movement of active dunes is tightly linked to climatic conditions (eg, wind regime,
temperature and precipitation) as well as human influence (eg, grazing, dune fixation and …

Unveiling the past: utilizing satellite imagery archives to study archaeological landscapes in the northeastern Nile Delta, Egypt

M Hagage, AM Abdulaziz, AGA Hewaidy, SA Shetaia - Anthropocene, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the utilization of satellite imagery archives in the northeastern Nile
Delta to examine and explore the evolution of archaeological landscapes. The study …

Upward range shift of a dominant alpine shrub related to 50 years of snow cover change

S Zong, JJ Lembrechts, H Du, HS He, Z Wu, M Li… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pronounced climate warming has resulted in a significant reduction of snow cover extent, as
well as poleward and upslope shifts of shrubs in Arctic and alpine ecosystems. However, it is …

Agricultural land abandonment in Bulgaria: A long-term remote sensing perspective, 1950–1980

ME Kabadayı, P Ettehadi Osgouei, E Sertel - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Agricultural land abandonment is a globally significant threat to the sustenance of economic,
ecological, and social balance. Although the driving forces behind it can be multifold and …

Mapping heat and traffic stress of urban park vegetation based on satellite imagery-A comparison of Bucharest, Romania and Leipzig, Germany

I Cârlan, D Haase, A Große-Stoltenberg, I Sandric - Urban Ecosystems, 2020 - Springer
Large and comparatively compact European cities such as Bucharest and Leipzig struggle
with considerable urban heat island (UHI) effects characterized by heat and drought …

[HTML][HTML] Dune behavior in the Source Area of the Yellow River under climate changes observed from various remote sensing datasets

L Dörwald, F Lehmkuhl, L Delobel, D Zhang, X Yang… - Aeolian Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Sand dunes are a landscape feature with a quick response time to climate change and
human influences (eg grazing, greening projects, and fixation structures). Their migration …

Remote sensing-based analysis of urban landscape change in the city of bucharest, romania

C Nistor, M Vîrghileanu, I Cârlan, BA Mihai, L Toma… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The paper investigates the urban landscape changes for the last 50 years in Bucharest, the
capital city of Romania. Bucharest shows a complex structural transformation driven by the …

Beyond the victim number: faunistic and ecological data from a road-mortality study in the Iron Gates Natural Park, Romania

SD Covaciu-Marcov, BI Lucaci, AM Cadar… - Journal on Protected …, 2022 - austriaca.at
Road mortality is one of the most obvious forms of anthropic impact upon fauna. The Iron
Gates Natural Park is an area of great biodiversity, crossed by a 154 km long road running …