Since 1972, the Landsat program has been continually monitoring the Earth, to now provide
50 years of digital, multispectral, medium spatial resolution observations. Over this time …

Soils under natural, tropical forests provide essential ecosystem services that have been
shaped by long-term soil–vegetation feedbacks. However, deforestation of tropical forest …

Nowadays, cities meet numerous sustainable development challenges in facing growing
urban populations and expanding urban areas. The monitoring and simulation of land use …

Land change is a cause and consequence of global environmental change,. Changes in
land use and land cover considerably alter the Earth's energy balance and biogeochemical …

The assessment of land use land cover change is extremely important for understanding the
relationship between humans and nature. The enormous changes at a regional scale and …

中国复杂的自然要素, 社会经济要素, 区域发展战略和政策调控形成了当前中国不均衡的经济
发展空间格局, 土地利用空间格局和生态环境质量空间格局. 厘清中国生态环境质量的空间格局 …

Soil erosion is a major threat to food security and ecosystem viability, as current rates are
orders of magnitude higher than natural soil formation. Governments around the world are …

Abstract Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more
sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of …

Rapid urbanization at the expense of the environment led to a reduction in vegetation cover,
and consequently aggravated land degradation, urban water logging, heat island effect and …

The world's forests provide valuable contributions to people but continue to be threatened by
agricultural expansion and other land uses. Counterfactual-based methods are increasingly …