The dust cycle facilitates the exchange of particles among Earth's major systems, enabling
dust to traverse ecosystems, cross geographic boundaries, and even move uphill against …

Monitoring land-use patterns and its trends provides useful information for impact evaluation
and policy design. The latest in-depth studies of land-use dynamics for continental Portugal …

The Tucson metropolitan area, located in the Sonoran Desert of southeastern Arizona
(USA), is affected by both massive population growth and rapid climate change, resulting in …

Environmental phenomena are always changing elsewhere in various scales depending on
both natural phenomenon and human interference. Land use/over change (LULC) is related …

Land-cover change is a major cause of global ecosystem degradation, a severe threat to
sustainable development and human welfare. In mountainous regions that cross national …

The use of remote sensing in time series analysis enables wall-to-wall monitoring of the land
surface and is critical for assessing and understanding land cover and land use change and …

Land, including soil resources, makes important contributions to the United Nations (UN)
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, there are challenges in identifying …

Nature reserves are important areas delineated to protect natural resources and the
ecological environment. They have various ecological functions, such as protecting …

Subpixel mapping (SPM) addresses the widespread mixed pixel problem in remote sensing
images by predicting the spatial distribution of land cover within mixed pixels. However …

Amid rapid urbanization, land use shifts in cities globally have profound effects on
ecosystems and biodiversity. Birds, as a crucial component of urban biodiversity, are highly …