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Monitoring high spatiotemporal water dynamics by fusing MODIS, Landsat, water occurrence data and DEM (2021)
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Li, X., Ling, F., Foody, G. M., Boyd, D. S., Jiang, L., Zhang, Y., …Du, Y. (2021). Monitoring high spatiotemporal water dynamics by fusing MODIS, Landsat, water occurrence data and DEM. Remote Sensing of Environment, 265, Article 112680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112680

Monitoring the spatiotemporal dynamics of surface water from remote sensing imagery is essential for understanding water's impact on the global ecosystem and climate change. There is often a tradeoff between the spatial and temporal resolutions of im... Read More about Monitoring high spatiotemporal water dynamics by fusing MODIS, Landsat, water occurrence data and DEM.

Detection of spatial and temporal patterns of liana infestation using satellite-derived imagery (2021)
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Chandler, C. J., van der Heijden, G. M., Boyd, D. S., & Foody, G. M. (2021). Detection of spatial and temporal patterns of liana infestation using satellite-derived imagery. Remote Sensing, 13(14), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13142774

Lianas (woody vines) play a key role in tropical forest dynamics because of their strong influence on tree growth, mortality and regeneration. Assessing liana infestation over large areas is critical to understand the factors that drive their spatial... Read More about Detection of spatial and temporal patterns of liana infestation using satellite-derived imagery.

Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space (2021)
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Boyd, D. S., Perrat, B., Li, X., Jackson, B., Landman, T., Ling, F., …Foody, G. M. (2021). Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8, Article 111. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00792-z

This article provides an example of the ways in which remote sensing, Earth observation, and machine learning can be deployed to provide the most up to date quantitative portrait of the South Asian ‘Brick Belt’, with a view to understanding the exten... Read More about Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space.

rasterdiv—An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back (2021)
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Rocchini, D., Thouverai, E., Marcantonio, M., Iannacito, M., Da Re, D., Torresani, M., …Wegmann, M. (2021). rasterdiv—An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12(6), 1093-1102. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13583

Ecosystem heterogeneity has been widely recognized as a key ecological indicator of several ecological functions, diversity patterns and change, metapopulation dynamics, population connectivity or gene flow. In this paper, we present a new R package—... Read More about rasterdiv—An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back.

Tracking small-scale tropical forest disturbances: Fusing the Landsat and Sentinel-2 data record (2021)
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Zhang, Y., Ling, F., Wang, X., Foody, G. M., Boyd, D. S., Li, X., …Atkinson, P. M. (2021). Tracking small-scale tropical forest disturbances: Fusing the Landsat and Sentinel-2 data record. Remote Sensing of Environment, 261, Article 112470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112470

Information on forest disturbance is crucial for tropical forest management and global carbon cycle analysis. The long-term collection of data from the Landsat missions provides some of the most valuable information for understanding the processes of... Read More about Tracking small-scale tropical forest disturbances: Fusing the Landsat and Sentinel-2 data record.

Impacts of ignorance on the accuracy of image classification and thematic mapping (2021)
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Foody, G. M. (2021). Impacts of ignorance on the accuracy of image classification and thematic mapping. Remote Sensing of Environment, 259, Article 112367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112367

Thematic maps are often derived from remotely sensed imagery via a supervised image classification analysis. The training and testing stages of a supervised image classification may proceed ignorant of the presence of some classes in the region to be... Read More about Impacts of ignorance on the accuracy of image classification and thematic mapping.

Remote sensing liana infestation in an aseasonal tropical forest: addressing mismatch in spatial units of analyses (2021)
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Chandler, C. J., Van Der Heijden, G. M. F., Boyd, D. S., Cutler, M. E. J., Costa, H., Nilus, R., & Foody, G. M. (2021). Remote sensing liana infestation in an aseasonal tropical forest: addressing mismatch in spatial units of analyses. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.197

The ability to accurately assess liana (woody vine) infestation at the landscape level is essential to quantify their impact on carbon dynamics and help inform targeted forest management and conservation action. Remote sensing techniques provide pote... Read More about Remote sensing liana infestation in an aseasonal tropical forest: addressing mismatch in spatial units of analyses.

Scrutinizing relationships between submarine groundwater discharge and upstream areas using thermal remote sensing: A case study in the northern Persian gulf (2021)
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Samani, A. N., Farzin, M., Rahmati, O., Feiznia, S., Kazemi, G. A., Foody, G., & Melesse, A. M. (2021). Scrutinizing relationships between submarine groundwater discharge and upstream areas using thermal remote sensing: A case study in the northern Persian gulf. Remote Sensing, 13(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13030358

© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Nutrient input through submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) often plays a significant role in primary productivity and nutrient cycling in the coastal areas. Understanding relationships betwe... Read More about Scrutinizing relationships between submarine groundwater discharge and upstream areas using thermal remote sensing: A case study in the northern Persian gulf.

Comparison of simple averaging and latent class modeling to estimate the area of land cover in the presence of reference data variability (2021)
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Xing, D., Stehman, S. V., Foody, G. M., & Pengra, B. W. (2021). Comparison of simple averaging and latent class modeling to estimate the area of land cover in the presence of reference data variability. Land, 10(1), Article 35. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010035

© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Estimates of the area or percent area of the land cover classes within a study region are often based on the reference land cover class labels assigned by analysts interpreting satellite image... Read More about Comparison of simple averaging and latent class modeling to estimate the area of land cover in the presence of reference data variability.