scholarly journals Remote sensing reveals multi-decadal losses of tree cover in California driven by increasing fire disturbance and climate stress

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan A Wang ◽  
James T Randerson ◽  
Michael L. Goulden ◽  
Clarke Knight ◽  
John B Battles
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Vegetation Dynamics ◽  
Carbon Offsets ◽  
Fire Disturbance ◽  
Tree Cover ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Climate Stress ◽  
Carbon Offset ◽  
Natural Climate ◽  
Geospatial Databases

Forests provide natural climate solutions for sequestering carbon and mitigating climate change yet are threatened by increasing temperatures and disturbance. Accurate information on vegetation dynamics is lacking in some regions with forest carbon offset programs and dense forests like California. To address this, we combined remote sensing observations with geospatial databases to develop annual maps of vegetation cover (tree, shrub, herbaceous) and disturbance type (fires, harvest, and forest die-off) in California at 30 m resolution from 1985 to 2021. California lost 3783 km2 of its tree cover area (5.5% relative to initial cover). Early gains in tree cover area were more than offset by fire-driven declines, resulting in greater shrub and herbaceous cover area. Fires and tree cover area loss occurred where temperatures were high or increasing, whereas tree cover gain occurred in cooler areas. Disturbance and warming are threatening the integrity of California's forests and its carbon offsets program.

scholarly journals Recent Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Forest Remote Sensing—A Systematic Review. Part II: Research Applications

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 397
Author(s):  
Riccardo Dainelli ◽  
Piero Toscano ◽  
Salvatore Filippo Di Gennaro ◽  
Alessandro Matese
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Spectral Signature ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Data Interoperability ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Management Context ◽  
Aerial Vehicle

Forest sustainable management aims to maintain the income of woody goods for companies, together with preserving non-productive functions as a benefit for the community. Due to the progress in platforms and sensors and the opening of the dedicated market, unmanned aerial vehicle–remote sensing (UAV–RS) is improving its key role in the forestry sector as a tool for sustainable management. The use of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) in precision forestry has exponentially increased in recent years, as demonstrated by more than 600 references published from 2018 until mid-2020 that were found in the Web of Science database by searching for “UAV”+“forest”. This result is even more surprising when compared with similar research for “UAV”+“agriculture”, from which emerge about 470 references. This shows how UAV–RS research forestry is gaining increasing popularity. In Part II of this review, analyzing the main findings of the reviewed papers (227), numerous strengths emerge concerning research technical issues. UAV–RS is fully applicated for obtaining accurate information from practical parameters (height, diameter at breast height (DBH), and biomass). Research effectiveness and soundness demonstrate that UAV–RS is now ready to be applied in a real management context. Some critical issues and barriers in transferring research products are also evident, namely,(1) hyperspectral sensors are poorly used, and their novel applications should be based on the capability of acquiring tree spectral signature especially for pest and diseases detection, (2) automatic processes for image analysis are poorly flexible or based on proprietary software at the expense of flexible and open-source tools that can foster researcher activities and support technology transfer among all forestry stakeholders, and (3) a clear lack exist in sensors and platforms interoperability for large-scale applications and for enabling data interoperability.

scholarly journals GIS and Remote Sensing Application in Water Management in Agriculture Field

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sassi Mohamed Taher
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Remotely Sensed ◽  
Irrigated Agriculture ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Remotely Sensed Data ◽  
Gis And Remote Sensing ◽  
Practical Applications

This document is meant to demonstrate the potential uses of remote sensing in managing water resources for irrigated agriculture and to create awareness among potential users. Researchers in various international programs have studied the potential use of remotely sensed data to obtain accurate information on land surface processes and conditions. These studies have demonstrated that quantitative assessment of the soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer processes can lead to a better understanding of the relationships between crop growth and water management. Remote sensing and GIS was used to map the agriculture area and for detect the change. This was very useful for mapping availability and need of water resources but the problem was concentrating in data collection and analysis because this kind of information and expertise are not available in all country in the world mainly in the developing and under developed country or third world country. However, even though considerable progress has been made over the past 20 years in research applications, remotely sensed data remain underutilized by practicing water resource managers. This paper seeks to bridge the gap between researchers and practitioners first, by illustrating where research tools and techniques have practical applications and, second, by identifying real problems that remote sensing could solve. An important challenge in the field of water resources is to utilize the timely, objective and accurate information provided by remote sensing.

scholarly journals REMOTE SENSING AND GIS FOR LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION AND CHANGE DETECTION IN GAZIPUR SADAR, BANGLADESH DURING 1973-2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Md Arafat Hassan ◽  
Rakibul Islam ◽  
Rehnuma Mahjabin
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Supervised Classification ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Satellite Image ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Remote Sensing And Gis ◽  
Vegetation Coverage ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Sal Forest ◽  
Shed Light

This paper has been developed to capture the land coverage change in Gazipur Sadar Upazila with the help of remote sensing data of 44 years from 1973 to 2017. After acquiring the study area image of 1973, 1991, 2006 and 2017 supervised classification method has been used to get the accurate information from the satellite image and the whole outcome has been transformed into measurable unit (sq km) and graphs. The accuracy of land coverage was ranged from 85% to 89%. The outcome says that the acceleration of economic growth and pressure of huge population took a heavy toll on the vegetation coverage which decreased -199.7%. People are destroying vegetation coverage for building up settlements and infrastructure. In the year 2017, the map shows that the built-up area increased 312.9% for industry, settlement and agricultural purpose. Moreover agricultural land also drops down from 42% to 32%.  The rapid rate of decreasing vegetation coverage and small amount of existing vegetation coverage only 57 sq km (in 2017) is a red alert for the region. The Sal forest and other special flora species of that region is valuable resource for environment. This paper shed light on the fact that it is urgent to protect vegetation coverage so it will help the authority to make good policies and use other techniques to save vegetation coverage.

scholarly journals Vegetation dynamics after experimental fire disturbance in the arid Succulent Karoo, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helga van der Merwe ◽  
Sebataolo Rahlao ◽  
Liesel Hein ◽  
Suzanne J Milton
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Vegetation Dynamics ◽  
Fire Disturbance ◽  
Succulent Karoo

Satellite remote sensing and natural disturbances

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
Nathalie Pettorelli
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Satellite Remote Sensing ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Natural Disturbances ◽  
Ecosystem Impacts ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽  
Continental Scale ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Wild Fire

This chapter provides an overview of how satellite remote sensing can help map the occurrence, and risk of occurrence, of several environmental disturbances; assess the extent of the associated damages; and monitor the recovery of the areas impacted by these disturbances. It particularly focuses on floods, wild fires, droughts, frost, extreme winter warming events, infestations and blooms, and bleaching events, as these are all well-known natural disturbances likely to change in frequency of occurrence and intensity over the coming decades. Through the use of examples, this chapter demonstrates how the utility of satellite remote sensing resides in the ability it provides to separate and characterise (i.e. through form, intensity, and trajectory) disturbances and responses at various spatial and temporal scales, thereby facilitating ecological knowledge expansion and the identification of relevant management actions. In particular, this contribution shows how satellites offer multiple opportunities to gain accurate information on the location, spatial extent, and duration of disturbances at the continental scale, which is needed to evaluate the ecosystem impacts of land cover changes due to, for example, wild fire, insect epidemics, and flooding, thereby reducing uncertainties in our ability to model global carbon budgets.

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