Aquaculture is the fastest-growing animal food production sector worldwide and is becoming
the main source of aquatic animal food in human consumption. Depletion of wild fishery …

Land cover (LC) is the vital foundation to Earth science. Up to now, several global LC
datasets have arisen with efforts of many scientific communities. To provide guidelines for …

River deltas and estuaries belong to the most significant coastal landforms on our planet
and are usually very densely populated. Nearly 600 million people live in river deltas …

Rocky desertification is one of the most critical ecological and environmental problems in
areas underlain by carbonate rocks globally. Land cover and land use in the region affects …

Spatially land-cover models are necessary for sustainable land-cover planning. The
expansion of human-built land involves the destruction of forests, meadows and farmlands …

This study integrates the use of multi-source and multi-resolution remote sensing,
topographic and field-based datasets to quantify land-use and land-cover (LULC) changes …

Drought ranks among the costliest of all climate-related phenomena and manifests in
various forms, posing significant challenges in understanding its influence on agriculture …

Land cover changes in tropical rainforest climate zones play an important role in global
climate change and the functioning of the Earth's natural system. Existing research on the …

This study examines the potential of open geodata sets and multitemporal Landsat satellite
data as the basis for the automated generation of land use and land cover (LU/LC) …

Despite rapid advances and large-scale initiatives in forest mapping, reliable cross-border
information about the status of forest resources in Central Asian countries is lacking. We …