Abstract The Ramsar Convention of 1971 encourages wetland preservation, but it is unclear
how climate change will affect wetland extent and related biodiversity. Due to the use of the …

Understanding the land surface temperature (LST) trends is crucial for policymakers and
stakeholders to develop adaptation and mitigation strategies suitable for a sustainable …

Livestock rearing is a major source of livelihood for food and income in dryland Asia.
Increasing livestock density (LSKD) affects ecosystem structure and function, amplifies the …

Pervasive development across the country has resulted in unprecedented urbanization with
a phenomenal change to the urban landscape. This rapid expansion of cities has generated …

Due to the natural conditions and inappropriate management responses, large part of plains
and forests in Iran have been burned in recent years. Given the increasing availability of …

Increasing land surface temperature (LST) is one of the significant anthropogenic issues that
is threatening livelihoods in urban areas. Understanding the urban LST is essential for …

Remote Sensing (RS) offers efficient tools for drought monitoring, especially in countries
with a lack of reliable and consistent in-situ multi-temporal datasets. In this study, a novel RS …

The surface urban heat island (SUHI) is one of the most evident climate phenomena in low-
and mid-latitude cities. Extensive growth and intense urbanization has brought a …

In remote sensing applications, data fusion is a combination of satellite images from different
sources, aimed to improve the spatial and/or temporal resolution of the final output. This …

The advent of new high-performance cloud computing platforms [eg, Google Earth Engine
(GEE)] and freely available satellite data provides a great opportunity for land cover (LC) …