Assessing Grazing Impacts by Remote Sensing in Hyper-Arid Environments

Assessing the short-term impacts of changing grazing regime at the landscape scale with remote sensing

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Remote Sensing for Assessing Environmental Impacts Based on Sustainability Indicators

Sustainable development is that which meets the needs of the present without foreclosing the needs or options of the future. Many studies have been published on how to assess sustainability using indicators that describe the different activities that impact on the environment. These can be related to the three pillars of sustainability, ecological, economic and environmental dimensions of devel...

Radar Remote Sensing of Arid Regions

Detection of Cannabis Plants by Hyper-spectral Remote Sensing Means

The dramatic increase of drug use, mostly hashish and marijuana, reinforces the demand for drug prevention and the need for accurate and updated information on cannabis fields. This study sought to evaluate the ability of Hyperspectral spectroscopy to discriminate cannabis from different scales and land use. The study was conducted in three stages: 1) Examination of the cannabis spectrum under ...

DEM-based analysis of morphometric features in humid and hyper-arid environments using artificial neural network

Abstract This paper presents a robust approach using artificial neural networks in the form of a Self Organizing Map (SOM) as a semi-automatic method for analysis and identification of morphometric features in two completely different environments, the Man and Biosphere Reserve “Eastern Carpathians” (Central Europe) in a complex mountainous humid area and Yardangs in Lut Desert, Iran, a hyper...