Google Earth Engine and artificial intelligence (AI): a comprehensive review

L Yang, J Driscol, S Sarigai, Q Wu, H Chen, CD Lippitt - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing (RS) plays an important role gathering data in many critical domains (eg,
global climate change, risk assessment and vulnerability reduction of natural hazards …

Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity

HS Grantham, A Duncan, TD Evans, KR Jones… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Many global environmental agendas, including halting biodiversity loss, reversing land
degradation, and limiting climate change, depend upon retaining forests with high …

[HTML][HTML] Global 10-m impervious surface area mapping: A big earth data based extraction and updating approach

Z Sun, W Du, H Jiang, Q Weng, H Guo, Y Han… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The impervious surface area is a critical component of anthropogenic environment that can
be utilized as a proxy for assessing urbanization sustainability. However, there remains a …

Satellite data reveal differential responses of Swiss forests to unprecedented 2018 drought

J Sturm, MJ Santos, B Schmid… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme events such as the summer drought of 2018 in Central Europe are projected to
occur more frequently in the future and may cause major damages including increased tree …

A third of the tropical African flora is potentially threatened with extinction

T Stévart, G Dauby, PP Lowry, A Blach-Overgaard… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Preserving tropical biodiversity is an urgent challenge when faced with the growing needs of
countries. Despite their crucial importance for terrestrial ecosystems, most tropical plant …

Increasing fragmentation of forest cover in Brazil's Legal Amazon from 2001 to 2017

B Montibeller, A Kmoch, H Virro, Ü Mander… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Persistent forest loss in the Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) is responsible for carbon
emission, reduction of ecosystem services, and loss of biodiversity. Combining spatial data …

Identification of waterlogging in Eastern China induced by mining subsidence: A case study of Google Earth Engine time-series analysis applied to the Huainan coal …

T He, W Xiao, YL Zhao, X Deng, Z Hu - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Underground coal mining with high groundwater levels causes many environmental
problems, one of the main ones being subsidence waterlogging. After the subsidence …

Recent advances and challenges in monitoring and modeling of disturbances in tropical moist forests

J He, W Li, Z Zhao, L Zhu, X Du, Y Xu, M Sun… - Frontiers in Remote …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Tropical moist forests have been severely affected by natural and anthropogenic
disturbances, leading to substantial changes in global carbon cycle and climate. These …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing forest disturbances across the Argentine Dry Chaco based on Landsat time series

T De Marzo, D Pflugmacher, M Baumann… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Forest loss in the tropics affects large areas, but whereas full forest conversions are routinely
assessed, forest degradation patters remain often unclear. This is particularly so for the …

Detection of aquatic plants using multispectral UAV imagery and vegetation index

B Song, K Park - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this study, aquatic plants in a small reservoir were detected using multispectral UAV
(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) imagery and various vegetation indices. A Firefly UAV, which …