Comparative assessment of grassland degradation dynamics in response to climate variation and human activities in China, Mongolia, Pakistan and Uzbekistan from …

Y Yang, Z Wang, J Li, C Gang, Y Zhang… - Journal of Arid …, 2016 - Elsevier
Quantifying the driving force is significant to understand the impact of climate variation and
human activities on grassland degradation. In this study, we selected net primary …

[PDF][PDF] Landsat-5 Time Series Analysis for Land Use/Land Cover Change Detection Using NDVI and Semi-Supervised Classification Techniques.

SM Zaidi, A Akbari, A Abu Samah, NS Kong… - Polish Journal of …, 2017 - pjoes.com
Rapid urbanization and the risk of climatic variations, including a rise in temperature and
increased rainfall, have urged research in the development of methods and techniques to …

Estimation of spatial and temporal changes in net primary production based on Carnegie Ames Stanford Approach (CASA) model in semi-arid rangelands of Semirom …

F Hadian, R Jafari, H Bashari, M Tartesh, KD Clarke - Journal of Arid land, 2019 - Springer
Net primary production (NPP) is an indicator of rangeland ecosystem function. This research
assessed the potential of the Carnegie Ames Stanford Approach (CASA) model for …

Global degradation trends of grassland and their driving factors since 2000

Z Yan, Z Gao, B Sun, X Ding, T Gao… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Grassland is the second largest terrestrial ecosystem and a fundamental land resource for
human survival and development. Although grassland degradation is a recognized and …

Evaluating several vegetation indices derived from Sentinel-2 imagery for quantifying localized overgrazing in a semi-arid region of South Africa

CJ Harmse, H Gerber, A Van Niekerk - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Rangeland monitoring aims to determine whether grazing management strategies meet the
goals of sustainable resource utilization. The development of sustainable grazing …

Mapping and assessing land cover/land use and aboveground carbon stocks rapid changes in small oceanic islands' terrestrial ecosystems: A case study of Madeira …

A Massetti, A Gil - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Small islands face environmental issues directly or indirectly related to land cover/land use
changes (LCLUC), such as natural hazards, climate change, loss of biodiversity and …

Monitoring land use/land cover change using multi-temporal Landsat satellite images in an arid environment: a case study of El-Arish, Egypt

N Badreldin, R Goossens - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2014 - Springer
Environment in arid conditions is dynamic and needs more investigation to understand the
complexity of change. This spatiotemporal study will help to assess and monitor the land use …

A Multi-Variable Sentinel-2 Random Forest Machine Learning Model Approach to Predicting Perennial Ryegrass Biomass in Commercial Dairy Farms in Southeast …

EM Morse-McNabb, MF Hasan, S Karunaratne - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
One of the most valuable and nutritionally essential agricultural commodities worldwide is
milk. The European Union and New Zealand are the second-and third-largest exporting …

Assessing the driving forces in vegetation dynamics using net primary productivity as the indicator: a case study in Jinghe River Basin in the Loess Plateau

H Wang, G Liu, Z Li, P Wang, Z Wang - Forests, 2018 - mdpi.com
An objective and effective method to distinguish the influence of climate change and human
activities on vegetation dynamics has great significance in the design and implementation of …

Comparative assessment of vegetation dynamics under the influence of climate change and human activities in five ecologically vulnerable regions of China from …

H Wang, G Liu, Z Li, P Wang, Z Wang - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ongoing climate change and human activities have a great effect on vegetation dynamics.
Understanding the impact of climate change and human activities on vegetation dynamics in …