The future of global land change monitoring

XP Song - International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Land change science co-evolves with remote sensing technology. The world has witnessed
an exponential growth in Earth observation satellites since 1972, and concurrently, land …

A robust approach for large-scale cropping intensity mapping in smallholder farms from vegetation, brownness indices and SAR time series

B Qiu, X Hu, P Yang, Z Tang, W Wu, Z Li - ISPRS Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multiple cropping is a widespread agricultural intensification for increasing food production.
National-scale Cropping Intensity (CI) mapping is important for achieving sustainable …

[HTML][HTML] WorldCereal: a dynamic open-source system for global-scale, seasonal, and reproducible crop and irrigation mapping

K Van Tricht, J Degerickx, S Gilliams… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
The challenge of global food security in the face of population growth, conflict, and climate
change requires a comprehensive understanding of cropped areas, irrigation practices, and …

National-scale 10-m maps of cropland use intensity in China during 2018–2023

B Qiu, B Liu, Z Tang, J Dong, W Xu, J Liang, N Chen… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
The amount of actively cultivated land in China is increasingly threatened by rapid
urbanization and rural population aging. Quantifying the extent and changes of active …

A generalized model for mapping sunflower areas using Sentinel-1 SAR data

A Qadir, S Skakun, N Kussul, A Shelestov… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Existing crop mapping models, rely heavily on reference (calibration) data obtained from
remote sensing observations. However, the transferability of such models in space and time …

A cost-effective and robust mapping method for diverse crop types using weakly supervised semantic segmentation with sparse point samples

Z Cai, B Xu, Q Yu, X Zhang, J Yang, H Wei, S Li… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Accurate and timely information on the spatial distribution and areas of crop types is critical
for yield estimation, agricultural management, and sustainable development. However …

A new transferable deep learning approach for crop mapping

H Che, Y Pan, X Xia, X Zhu, L Li, Y Huang… - GIScience & Remote …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Accurate crop mapping provides important information for government decision-making and
agricultural management. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of sunflower planted areas in Ukraine during full-scale Russian invasion: Insights from Sentinel-1 SAR data.

A Qadir, S Skakun, I Becker-Reshef, N Kussul… - Science of Remote …, 2024 - Elsevier
Data limitations and attributability issues due to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in
February 2022 presents continuing challenges in assessing production of major commodity …

[HTML][HTML] ChinaSoyArea10m: a dataset of soybean-planting areas with a spatial resolution of 10 m across China from 2017 to 2021

Q Mei, Z Zhang, J Han, J Song, J Dong… - Earth System …, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
Soybean, an essential food crop, has witnessed a steady rise in demand in recent years.
There is a lack of high-resolution annual maps depicting soybean-planting areas in China …

[HTML][HTML] Hierarchical building use classification from multiple modalities with a multi-label multimodal transformer network

W Zhou, C Persello, A Stein - … Journal of Applied Earth Observation and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Building use information is important for urban planning, city digital twins, and informed
policy formulation. Prior research has predominantly focused on mapping building use in …