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Christiane Schmullius
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A New Era of Earth Observation for the Environment: Spatio-Temporal Monitoring Capabilities for Land Degradation
Land degradation can be defined as a persistent reduction or loss of the biological and economic productivity resulting from climatic variations and human activities. To quantify relevant surface changes with ...
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Observational Support for Regional Policy Implementation: Land Surface Change Under Anthropogenic and Climate Pressure in SALDi Study Sites
South Africa is a vast, very diverse and dynamic country experiencing rapidly changing demands for the utilization of its natural resources. At the same time, global climate change and related processes affect...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Arctic Port Activity Management Digitalization in Ice Season
In the paper, there are presented digitalization development results for Arctic port activity management in ice season within Industry 4.0 period under climate change and COVID-19 pandemic
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Article
Open AccessLinking scales and disciplines: an interdisciplinary cross-scale approach to supporting climate-relevant ecosystem management
Southern Africa is particularly sensitive to climate change, due to both ecological and socio-economic factors, with rural land users among the most vulnerable groups. The provision of information to support c...
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Article
Open AccessEstimation of forest aboveground biomass and uncertainties by integration of field measurements, airborne LiDAR, and SAR and optical satellite data in Mexico
Information on the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass (AGB) over large areas is needed for understanding and managing processes involved in the carbon cycle and supporting international policies for c...
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Multi-Source Data Integration and Analysis for Land Monitoring in Siberia
Land monitoring is a key issue in Earth system sciences analyzing environmental changes. To generate knowledge about changes, e.g., by decreasing uncertainties in the products and to build confidence in land c...
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Multi-Scale Vegetation and Water Body Map** of the Northern Latitudes in Siberia with Optical Remote Sensing
The Arctic ecosystem is highly vulnerable to modification within the climate system. Increasing greenhouse gas emissions, e.g. from melting permafrost soils, are assumed to result in positive feedback mechanis...
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Fusion of Airborne Hyperspectral and LiDAR Remote Sensing Data to Study the Thermal Characteristics of Urban Environments
This study focuses on the derivation of an urban surface material map to parameterize a 3D numerical microclimate model. For this purpose, fusion of airborne hyperspectral and light detection and ranging (LiDA...
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Radar Time Series for Land Cover and Forest Map**
Radar time series are powerful means to improve retrieval algorithms about land surface characteristics in the following ways: (i) as information for identification of land surface conditions, (ii) as source o...
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Article
Open AccessMap** biomass with remote sensing: a comparison of methods for the case study of Uganda
Assessing biomass is gaining increasing interest mainly for bioenergy, climate change research and mitigation activities, such as reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of co...
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Article
Open AccessSatellite-based terrestrial production efficiency modeling
Production efficiency models (PEMs) are based on the theory of light use efficiency (LUE) which states that a relatively constant relationship exists between photosynthetic carbon uptake and radiation receipt ...
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Pilotprojekt Radarbefliegung der mittleren Elbtalaue
Die Flugzeug- und Satelliten-gestützte Fernerkundung der Erde stellt seit vielen Jahren eine anerkannte und vielgenutzte Informationsquelle für kartographische, geodätische und geowissenschaftliche Fragestellu...
