Leveraging Google Earth Engine platform to characterize and map small seasonal wetlands in the semi-arid environments of South Africa

S Gxokwe, T Dube, D Mazvimavi - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Although significant scientific research strides have been made in mapping the spatial
extents and ecohydrological dynamics of wetlands in semi-arid environments, the focus on …

An assessment of vegetation cover of Mysuru City, Karnataka State, India, using deep convolutional neural networks

HN Mahendra, S Mallikarjunaswamy… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Mysuru City is a unique place in India due to its culture, green cover, historical places, and
pleasant weather. In the last few decades, the city was witnessed rapid urban growth. This …

Using cloud computing techniques to monitor long-term variations in ecohydrological dynamics of small seasonally-flooded wetlands in semi-arid South Africa

S Gxokwe, T Dube, D Mazvimavi, M Grenfell - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Wetlands in drylands have high inter-and intra-annual ecohydrological variations that are
driven to a great extent by climate variability and anthropogenic influences. The Ramsar …

[HTML][HTML] Global trend assessment of land use and land cover changes: A systematic approach to future research development and planning

GA Afuye, L Nduku, AM Kalumba, CAG Santos… - Journal of King Saud …, 2024 - Elsevier
The diverse landscape of global land use and land cover (LULC) change studies were
evaluated to uncover the current advances in data and future research potential through …

LULC change detection analysis of Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka state, India using CNN-based deep learning method

HN Mahendra, V Pushpalatha… - Advances in Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
The change detection analysis of land use land cover (LULC) is an important task in several
fields and applications such as environmental monitoring, urban planning, disaster …

An assessment of long-term and large-scale wetlands change dynamics in the Limpopo transboundary river basin using cloud-based Earth observation data

S Gxokwe, T Dube, D Mazvimavi - Wetlands Ecology and Management, 2024 - Springer
Significant progress has been made in monitoring and assessing the effects of land use and
land cover (LULC) changes on wetland extent. However, our understanding of wetland …

Monitoring and assessing the effectiveness of the biological control implemented to address the invasion of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in Hartbeespoort …

P Mqingwana, C Shoko, S Gxokwe, T Dube - Remote Sensing Applications …, 2024 - Elsevier
Water hyacinth is one of the most aggressive alien invasive plants, which invades freshwater
resources and destroys native biodiversity. The plant proliferates rapidly over a short space …

Using cloud computing techniques to map the geographic extent of informal settlements in the greater Cape Town Metropolitan Area

S Gxokwe, T Dube - Remote Sensing Applications: Society and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Although remote sensing approaches offer unprecedented opportunities to understand
urban land cover dynamics including informal settlements areal extent, challenges such as …

Assessing the impact of anthropogenic activities on land use and land cover changes in the semi-arid and arid regions of Algeria

G Mohammed, M Boutkhil, B Ayoub - Environmental Monitoring and …, 2024 - Springer
Land use and land cover are critical factors that influence the environment and human
societies. The dynamics of LULC have been constantly changing over the years, and these …

Investigating the effects of drought and lockdowns on smallholder and commercial agricultural production in KwaZulu-Natal using remotely sensed data

NCF Manfouo, D Von Fintel - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Not many efforts have been made so far to understand the effects of both the 2015–2016
drought and the 2020 lockdown measures on the agricultural production of smallholder vis-a …