Food security is a global challenge that aligns with several Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs), including SDG 1‐“No Poverty”, SDG 2‐“Zero Hunger,” SDG 3‐“Good Health and …

Due to the lack of rainfall potential in Central Iran, the water scarcity is still the main problem
of production in the country. Accordingly, the use of unconventional waters will be inevitable …

Drought factors vary with climate regions. Drought prediction and classification require
vegetation indices, which are computed based on these characteristics. Satellite images can …

Summary Advancements in Earth Observation (EO) technologies show huge potential for
systematic and temporal assessment of forest regions. Space‐borne datasets with synoptic …

To meet the global challenges of climate change and human activity pressure on
biodiversity conservation, it has become vital to map such pressure hotspots. Large areas …

The availability of high-resolution satellite images has accelerated the creation of new
datasets designed to tackle broader remote sensing (RS) problems. Although popular tasks …

In this work, we propose that small wood core samples (≤ 10 cm length), taken from 0.3 m
above the soil, represent an accurate means of correlating forest growth with remote sensing …

The Himalayan region is one of the most sensitive of the Earth's biodiversity hotspots. This
chapter explores the environmental, cultural, and socio‐economic importance of the …

This chapter summarizes the book's overall concept within a compact format wherein we
have presented the succinct story of each chapter contributed to this volume. We describe …

On the Ground• Peak standing crop (PSC) and residual dry matter (RDM) are the primary
measures of production and grazing intensity on California's annual rangelands.• One of the …