Remotely sensed rivers in the Anthropocene: State of the art and prospects

H Piégay, F Arnaud, B Belletti… - Earth Surface …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The rivers of the world are undergoing accelerated change in the Anthropocene, and need
to be managed at much broader spatial and temporal scales than before. Fluvial remote …

Accuracy assessment of digital elevation models (DEMs): A critical review of practices of the past three decades

JL Mesa-Mingorance, FJ Ariza-López - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
An analysis of almost 200 references has been carried out in order to obtain knowledge
about the DEM (Digital Elevation Model) accuracy assessment methods applied in the last …

Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

L Mo, CM Zohner, PB Reich, J Liang, S De Miguel… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Forests are a substantial terrestrial carbon sink, but anthropogenic changes in land use and
climate have considerably reduced the scale of this system. Remote-sensing estimates to …

A 30 m global map of elevation with forests and buildings removed

L Hawker, P Uhe, L Paulo, J Sosa… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Elevation data are fundamental to many applications, especially in geosciences. The latest
global elevation data contains forest and building artifacts that limit its usefulness for …

Effective data augmentation with diffusion models

B Trabucco, K Doherty, M Gurinas… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Data augmentation is one of the most prevalent tools in deep learning, underpinning many
recent advances, including those from classification, generative models, and representation …

Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically

JS Sze, LR Carrasco, D Childs, DP Edwards - Nature Sustainability, 2022 - nature.com
Area-based protection is the cornerstone of international conservation policy. The
contribution of Indigenous Lands (ILs)—areas traditionally owned, managed, used or …

Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies

P De Frenne, F Zellweger… - Nature Ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Macroclimate warming is often assumed to occur within forests despite the potential for tree
cover to modify microclimates. Here, using paired measurements, we compared the …

Global habitat loss and extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates under future land-use-change scenarios

RP Powers, W Jetz - Nature climate change, 2019 - nature.com
Habitat transformations caused by human land-use change are considered major drivers of
ongoing biodiversity loss,–, and their impact on biodiversity is expected to increase further …

Global maps of soil temperature

JJ Lembrechts, J van den Hoogen, J Aalto… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Research in global change ecology relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from
estimates of air temperature in open areas at around 2 m above the ground. These climatic …

A global-scale data set of mining areas

V Maus, S Giljum, J Gutschlhofer, DM da Silva… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
The area used for mineral extraction is a key indicator for understanding and mitigating the
environmental impacts caused by the extractive sector. To date, worldwide data products on …