In the coming decades, ensuring food security is one of the greatest challenges in Ethiopia.
Most Ethiopians practice mixed agricultural activity which represents about 33.88% of the …

Cloud detection in optical remote sensing images is a crucial problem because undetected
clouds can produce misleading results in the analyses of surface and atmospheric …

Being a relatively less known driver of land vulnerability to degradation in Southern Europe,
the net impact of urban expansion on land quality depletion requires a comparative …

Agriculture is one of the most important sectors in the world. It provides food for the growing
world populations while also creating employment opportunities. This sector, however, is …

Coffee leaf rust (CLR) caused by the fungus Hemileia vastarix is a devastating disease in
almost all coffee producing countries and remote sensing approaches have the potential to …

Soil erosion is one of the most widespread soil degradation phenomena worldwide.
Mediterranean landscapes, due to some peculiar characteristics, such as fragility of soils …

The couple rapid urbanization and policy failure in controlling urban expansion was
sometimes associated to soil and land degradation phenomena in both developing and …

Depopulation and economic marginalization of rural districts have induced a progressive
land abandonment in agricultural and pastoral districts. In Europe, areas at higher risk of …

Polycentric development is one of the fundamental components of the European Spatial
Planning and Development (ESPD) strategy and substantiates the legitimacy of a …

In order to control the desertification, large-scale afforestation programs have been
attempted worldwide. Among them, China initiated the world's largest afforestation program …