Land cover classification of Landsat images is one of the most important applications
developed from Earth observation satellites. The last four decades were marked by different …

Abstract With 450,000 km 2 Kobresia (syn. Carex) pygmaea dominated pastures in the
eastern Tibetan highlands are the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem forming a …

Kazakhstan is part of the Eurasian Steppes, the world's largest contiguous grassland
system. Kazakh grassland systems are largely understudied despite being historically …

The livestock activity accounts for a large part of the transformations in land cover in the
world, with pasture areas being the main land use in Brazil and the main livelihood of the …

Grassland degradation in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP), has attracted considerable
concern because of its negative influence on the development of the local economy and the …

To address pasture degradation on the Tibetan Plateau, the Chinese government has
launched the ecological restoration project Grazing Withdrawal Program (GWP) since 2004 …

In light of Harris (2010) finding insufficient evidence to assert a causal linkage between any
of the seven previously proposed causative factors and grassland degradation on the …

Earth observation data have assumed a key role in environmental monitoring, as well as in
risk assessment. Rising temperatures and consequently heat waves due to ongoing climate …

Climate change (CC) and human activities (HA) are the main reasons for the restoration/
degradation of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) grassland. Many related studies have been …

Grassland ecosystems on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) provide numerous ecosystem
services and functions to both local communities and the populations living downstream …