Vegetation biomass estimation with remote sensing: focus on forest and other wooded land over the Mediterranean ecosystem

G Galidaki, D Zianis, I Gitas, K Radoglou… - … journal of remote …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Carbon sequestration service of Mediterranean forest and other wooded land is threatened
by their fragile, complex, and highly evolving nature, due to both human disturbances and …

Landscape Characteristics in Relation to Ecosystem Services Supply: The Case of a Mediterranean Forest on the Island of Cyprus

G Kefalas, RS Lorilla, P Xofis, K Poirazidis… - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Mediterranean area is one of the most significantly altered biodiversity hotspots on the
Earth's surface; it has been intensively affected by anthropogenic activity for millennia …

Optimizing the timing of unmanned aerial vehicle image acquisition for applied mapping of woody vegetation species using feature selection

G Weil, IM Lensky, YS Resheff, N Levin - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Most recent studies relating to the classification of vegetation species on the individual level
use cutting-edge sensors and follow a data-driven approach, aimed at maximizing …

A comparative analysis of EO-1 Hyperion, Quickbird and Landsat TM imagery for fuel type mapping of a typical Mediterranean landscape

G Mallinis, G Galidaki, I Gitas - remote sensing, 2014 - mdpi.com
Forest fires constitute a natural disturbance factor and an agent of environmental change
with local to global impacts on Earth's processes and functions. Accurate knowledge of …

Normalized difference vegetation vigour index: A new remote sensing approach to biodiversity monitoring in oil polluted regions

NN Onyia, H Balzter, JC Berrio - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Biodiversity loss remains a global challenge despite international commitment to the United
Nations Convention on Biodiversity. Biodiversity monitoring methods are often limited in …

Sequential PCA-based classification of mediterranean forest plants using airborne hyperspectral remote sensing

A Dadon, M Mandelmilch, E Ben-Dor, E Sheffer - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
In recent years, hyperspectral remote sensing (HRS) has become common practice for
remote analyses of the physiognomy and composition of forests. Supervised classification is …

[HTML][HTML] An original method for tree species classification using multitemporal multispectral and hyperspectral satellite data

O Grigorieva, O Brovkina, A Saidov - Silva Fennica, 2020 - silvafennica.fi
This study proposes an original method for tree species classification by satellite remote
sensing. The method uses multitemporal multispectral (Landsat OLI) and hyperspectral …

Mapping and understanding the dynamics of landscape changes on heterogeneous mediterranean Islands with the use of OBIA: The case of Ionian Region, Greece

G Kefalas, K Poirazidis, P Xofis, S Kalogirou - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Mediterranean islands contain heterogeneous landscapes, resulting from the complex
interactions between natural and anthropogenic processes, and have significant ecological …

Heterogeneous forest classification by creating mixed vegetation classes using EO-1 Hyperion

M Deák, T Telbisz, M Árvai, L Mari… - … Journal of Remote …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Hyperspectral satellite data is an efficient tool in vegetation mapping; however, previous
studies indicate that classifying heterogeneous forests might be difficult. In this study, we …

Remote sensing models of structure-related biochemicals and pigments for classification of trees

G Kozhoridze, N Orlovsky, L Orlovsky… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Global vegetation distribution is the result of environmental conditions and the genetic make-
up of plants. In view of the intensive discussions on climate change and its effect on living …