Tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates with profound impacts on ecosystems,
climate, and livelihoods, prompting renewed commitments to halt its continuation. Although it …

Traditional data sources are not sufficient for measuring the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals. New and non-traditional sources of data are required. Citizen science …

The restoration of trees remains among the most effective strategies for climate change
mitigation. We mapped the global potential tree coverage to show that 4.4 billion hectares of …

Accuracy assessment and land cover mapping have been inexorably linked throughout the
first 50 years of publication of Remote Sensing of Environment. The earliest developers of …

Fairy circles (FCs) are regular vegetation patterns found in drylands of Namibia and Western
Australia. It is virtually unknown whether they are also present in other regions of the world …

Earth is approaching environmental thresholds that, if crossed, will create serious
disruptions to ecosystems, economies, and society (1). To avoid the devastating effects of …

Dryland biomes cover two-fifths of Earth's land surface, but their forest area is poorly known.
Here, we report an estimate of global forest extent in dryland biomes, based on analyzing …

Land is a natural resource that humans have utilized for life and various activities. Land
use/land cover change (LULCC) has been of great concern to many countries over the …

The continuous increase in the volume of geospatial data has led to the creation of storage
tools and the cloud to process data. Google Earth Engine (GEE) is a cloud-based platform …

Modern advances in cloud computing and machine-leaning algorithms are shifting the
manner in which Earth-observation (EO) data are used for environmental monitoring …