The appetite for up-to-date information about earth's surface is ever increasing, as such
information provides a base for a large number of applications, including local, regional and …

Remote sensing imagery needs to be converted into tangible information which can be
utilised in conjunction with other data sets, often within widely used Geographic Information …

Groundwater is an increasingly important water supply source globally. Understanding the
amount of groundwater used versus the volume available is crucial to evaluate future water …

Agricultural land abandonment is a common land-use change, making the accurate
mapping of both location and timing when agricultural land abandonment occurred …

Characterizations of land-cover dynamics are among the most important applications of
Earth observation data, providing insights into management, policy and science. Recent …

A globally consistent methodology using satellite imagery was implemented to quantify
gross forest cover loss (GFCL) from 2000 to 2005 and to compare GFCL among biomes …

Remote sensing data play an important role in the monitoring of forest changes. Methods
are needed to provide objective estimates of forest loss to support monitoring efforts at …

Reducing tropical deforestation is an international priority, given its impacts on carbon
emissions and biodiversity. We examined whether recent forest transitions—a shift from net …

Forest cover and forest cover loss for the last decade, 2000–2010, have been quantified for
the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) using Landsat time-series data set. This was …

Timely and accurate classification and interpretation of high-resolution images are very
important for urban planning and disaster rescue. However, as spatial resolution gets finer, it …