Remote sensing of land change: A multifaceted perspective

Z Zhu, S Qiu, S Ye - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The discipline of land change science has been evolving rapidly in the past decades.
Remote sensing played a major role in one of the essential components of land change …

Significant increase in natural disturbance impacts on European forests since 1950

M Patacca, M Lindner, ME Lucas‐Borja… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last decades, the natural disturbance is increasingly putting pressure on European
forests. Shifts in disturbance regimes may compromise forest functioning and the continuous …

Asymmetric influence of forest cover gain and loss on land surface temperature

Y Su, C Zhang, P Ciais, Z Zeng, A Cescatti… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
The direct biophysical effects of fine-scale tree cover changes on temperature are not well
understood. Here, we show how land surface temperature responds to subgrid gross tree …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping, validating, and interpreting spatio-temporal trends in post-disturbance forest recovery

JC White, T Hermosilla, MA Wulder… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The success and rate of forest regeneration has consequences for sustainable forest
management, climate change mitigation, and biodiversity, among others. Systematically …

Concerns about reported harvests in European forests

M Palahí, R Valbuena, C Senf, N Acil, TAM Pugh… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Using remote-sensing data on forest cover change in the European Union (EU), Ceccherini
et al. 1 report an abrupt increase in harvested biomass (69%) and in harvested forest area …

Integrating GEDI and Landsat: Spaceborne lidar and four decades of optical imagery for the analysis of forest disturbances and biomass changes in Italy

S Francini, G D'Amico, E Vangi, C Borghi, G Chirici - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Forests play a prominent role in the battle against climate change, as they absorb a relevant
part of human carbon emissions. However, precisely because of climate change, forest …

Post‐disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe's forests

C Senf, R Seidl - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Forest ecosystems around the globe are facing increasing natural and human
disturbances. Increasing disturbances can challenge forest resilience, that is, the capacity of …

Near-real time forest change detection using PlanetScope imagery

S Francini, RE McRoberts, F Giannetti… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
To combat global deforestation, monitoring forest disturbances at sub-annual scales is a key
challenge. For this purpose, the new Planetscope nano-satellite constellation is a game …

[HTML][HTML] An assessment approach for pixel-based image composites

S Francini, T Hermosilla, NC Coops, MA Wulder… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Remote sensing is one of the main sources of information for monitoring forest dynamics;
however, surface reflectance is often not possible to accurately derive due to haze, cloud, or …

On the use of sentinel-2 NDVI time series and google earth engine to detect land-use/land-cover changes in fire-affected areas

R Lasaponara, N Abate, C Fattore, A Aromando… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study aims to assess the potential of Sentinel-2 NDVI time series and Google Earth
Engine to detect small land-use/land-cover changes (at the pixel level) in fire-disturbed …