[HTML][HTML] Optical remotely sensed time series data for land cover classification: A review

C Gómez, JC White, MA Wulder - ISPRS Journal of photogrammetry and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Accurate land cover information is required for science, monitoring, and reporting. Land
cover changes naturally over time, as well as a result of anthropogenic activities. Monitoring …

The Amazon basin in transition

EA Davidson, AC de Araújo, P Artaxo, JK Balch… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Agricultural expansion and climate variability have become important agents of disturbance
in the Amazon basin. Recent studies have demonstrated considerable resilience of …

New global forest/non-forest maps from ALOS PALSAR data (2007–2010)

M Shimada, T Itoh, T Motooka, M Watanabe… - Remote Sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Four global mosaics of Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Arrayed L-band
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) HH and HV polarization data were generated at 25 m …

Land use/land cover change detection and NDVI estimation in Pakistan's Southern Punjab Province

Y Hu, A Raza, NR Syed, S Acharki, RL Ray, S Hussain… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Land use/land cover (LULC) changes are among the most significant human-caused global
variations affecting the natural environment and ecosystems. Pakistan's LULC patterns have …

Deforestation and Reforestation of L atin A merica and the C aribbean (2001–2010)

TM Aide, ML Clark, HR Grau, D López‐Carr… - Biotropica, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Forest cover change directly affects biodiversity, the global carbon budget, and ecosystem
function. Within Latin American and the Caribbean region (LAC), many studies have …

Extracting the dynamics of urban expansion in China using DMSP-OLS nighttime light data from 1992 to 2008

Z Liu, C He, Q Zhang, Q Huang, Y Yang - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2012 - Elsevier
Timely and accurate information about the dynamics of urban expansion is vital to reveal the
relationships between urban expansion and the ecosystem, to optimize land use patterns …

Deforestation dynamics and drivers in different forest types in Latin America: Three decades of studies (1980–2010)

D Armenteras, JM Espelta, N Rodríguez… - Global Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Over the last decades there have been a considerable number of deforestation studies in
Latin America reporting lower rates compared with other regions; although these studies are …

Urban expansion dynamics and natural habitat loss in China: A multiscale landscape perspective

C He, Z Liu, J Tian, Q Ma - Global change biology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
China's extensive urbanization has resulted in a massive loss of natural habitat, which is
threatening the nation's biodiversity and socioeconomic sustainability. A timely and accurate …

Global land cover mapping: A review and uncertainty analysis

RG Congalton, J Gu, K Yadav, P Thenkabail… - Remote Sensing, 2014 - mdpi.com
Given the advances in remotely sensed imagery and associated technologies, several
global land cover maps have been produced in recent times including IGBP DISCover, UMD …

GLC2000: a new approach to global land cover mapping from Earth observation data

E Bartholome, AS Belward - International Journal of Remote …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
A new global land cover database for the year 2000 (GLC2000) has been produced by an
international partnership of 30 research groups coordinated by the European Commission's …