Understanding forest health with remote sensing-part I—a review of spectral traits, processes and remote-sensing characteristics

A Lausch, S Erasmi, DJ King, P Magdon, M Heurich - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Anthropogenic stress and disturbance of forest ecosystems (FES) has been increasing at all
scales from local to global. In rapidly changing environments, in-situ terrestrial FES …

Linking Earth Observation and taxonomic, structural and functional biodiversity: Local to ecosystem perspectives

A Lausch, L Bannehr, M Beckmann, C Boehm… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Impacts of human civilization on ecosystems threaten global biodiversity. In a changing
environment, traditional in situ approaches to biodiversity monitoring have made significant …

Performance of vegetation indices from Landsat time series in deforestation monitoring

M Schultz, JGPW Clevers, S Carter, J Verbesselt… - International journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The performance of Landsat time series (LTS) of eight vegetation indices (VIs) was
assessed for monitoring deforestation across the tropics. Three sites were selected based …

Perspectives on monitoring gradual change across the continuity of Landsat sensors using time-series data

JE Vogelmann, AL Gallant, H Shi, Z Zhu - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
There are many types of changes occurring over the Earth's landscapes that can be
detected and monitored using Landsat data. Here we focus on monitoring “within-state,” …

A systematic review on the integration of remote sensing and GIS to forest and grassland ecosystem health attributes, indicators, and measures

I Soubry, T Doan, T Chu, X Guo - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
It is important to protect forest and grassland ecosystems because they are ecologically rich
and provide numerous ecosystem services. Upscaling monitoring from local to global scale …

Understanding forest health with remote sensing-part II—A review of approaches and data models

A Lausch, S Erasmi, DJ King, P Magdon, M Heurich - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Stress in forest ecosystems (FES) occurs as a result of land-use intensification, disturbances,
resource limitations or unsustainable management, causing changes in forest health (FH) at …

Tracking disturbance-regrowth dynamics in tropical forests using structural change detection and Landsat time series

B DeVries, M Decuyper, J Verbesselt, A Zeileis… - Remote Sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Increasing attention on tropical deforestation and forest degradation has necessitated more
detailed knowledge of forest change dynamics in the tropics. With an increasing amount of …

Towards a whole‐system framework for wildfire monitoring using Earth observations

MA Crowley, CA Stockdale, JM Johnston… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fire seasons have become increasingly variable and extreme due to changing
climatological, ecological, and social conditions. Earth observation data are critical for …

European primary forest database v2. 0

FM Sabatini, H Bluhm, Z Kun, D Aksenov, JA Atauri… - Scientific data, 2021 - nature.com
Primary forests, defined here as forests where the signs of human impacts, if any, are
strongly blurred due to decades without forest management, are scarce in Europe and …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing forest disturbances across the Argentine Dry Chaco based on Landsat time series

T De Marzo, D Pflugmacher, M Baumann… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Forest loss in the tropics affects large areas, but whereas full forest conversions are routinely
assessed, forest degradation patters remain often unclear. This is particularly so for the …