[HTML][HTML] Extent, accuracy and repeatability of bare sand and vegetation cover in dunes mapped from aerial imagery is highly variable

TAG Smyth, R Wilson, P Rooney, KL Yates - Aeolian Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Vegetation cover on coastal sand dunes has been increasing worldwide since at least the
1940s. Analysis of aerial and satellite imagery has been the principal source used to …

Monitoring forest cover dynamics using orthophotos and satellite imagery

L Blaga, DC Ilieș, JA Wendt, I Rus, K Zhu, LD Dávid - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The assessment of changes in forest coverage is crucial for managing protected forest
areas, particularly in the face of climate change. This study monitored forest cover dynamics …

Tropical wetland (TropWet) mapping tool: the automatic detection of open and vegetated waterbodies in Google Earth engine for tropical wetlands

A Hardy, G Oakes, G Ettritch - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Knowledge of the location and extent of surface water and inundated vegetation is vital for a
range of applications including flood risk management, biodiversity monitoring, quantifying …

Satellite data reveal how Sudd wetland dynamics are linked with globally-significant methane emissions

A Hardy, PI Palmer, G Oakes - Environmental Research Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent work has highlighted the large role of methane emissions from the Sudd wetland
and surrounding ecosystems on the global atmospheric growth rate of methane since 2010 …

Assessing the effectiveness of UAV data for accurate coastal dune habitat mapping

C Cruz, J O'Connell, K McGuinness… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Coastal dunes are considered some of the most threatened and vulnerable habitats in the
European Union. Mapping the spatial distribution of these habitats is an essential task for …

Dwindling seagrasses: A multi-temporal analysis on Google Earth Engine

T Sebastian, KR Sreenath, MP Sreeram, R Ranith - Ecological Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
Seagrasses, a unique group of marine flowering plants, profoundly influence the marine
environment by providing an array of critical ecological functions. They serve as the …

Refining medium resolution fractional cover for arid Australia to detect vegetation dynamics and wind erosion susceptibility on longitudinal dunes

S Shumack, A Fisher, PP Hesse - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Medium resolution satellite-derived fractional cover estimates of bare soil (f BS),
photosynthetic vegetation (f PV), and non-photosynthetic vegetation (f NPV) provide a …

Do topographic changes tell us about variability in aeolian sediment transport and dune mobility? Analysis of monthly to decadal surface changes in a partially …

J Caster, JB Sankey, TT Sankey, A Kasprak… - Geomorphology, 2024 - Elsevier
Vegetation and biological soil crust (biocrust) cover can have a stabilizing effect on dunes by
fixing sediment in-place and increasing surface roughness, thus limiting dune mobility …

[HTML][HTML] Surface-area development of foredune trough blowouts and associated parabolic dunes quantified from time series of satellite imagery

N van Kuik, J de Vries, C Schwarz, G Ruessink - Aeolian Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Foredune trough blowouts are elongated wind-eroded depressions in the most seaward
dune and their adjoining depositional lobes. Despite their importance to the sand budget …

[HTML][HTML] Surface composition of debris-covered glaciers across the Himalaya using linear spectral unmixing of Landsat 8 OLI imagery

AE Racoviteanu, L Nicholson, NF Glasser - The Cryosphere, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
The Himalaya mountain range is characterized by highly glacierized, complex, dynamic
topography. The ablation area of Himalayan glaciers often features a highly heterogeneous …