Search Results - "APLIN, Paul"
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Mapping Complex Urban Land Cover from Spaceborne Imagery: The Influence of Spatial Resolution, Spectral Band Set and Classification Approach
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (2016)“…Detailed land cover information is valuable for mapping complex urban environments. Recent enhancements to satellite sensor technology promise fit-for-purpose…”
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Impacts of conversion of tropical peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation on peat organic chemistry, physical properties and carbon stocks
Published in Geoderma (01-03-2017)“…Ecosystem services provided by tropical peat swamp forests, such as carbon (C) storage and water regulation, are under threat due to encroachment and…”
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Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation
Published in Nature communications (21-01-2020)“…Conversion of tropical peat swamp forest to drainage-based agriculture alters greenhouse gas (GHG) production, but the magnitude of these changes remains…”
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Methane emissions from tree stems in neotropical peatlands
Published in The New phytologist (01-01-2020)“…• Neotropical peatlands emit large amounts of methane (CH₄) from the soil surface, but fluxes from tree stems in these ecosystems are unknown. In this study we…”
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Testing the Contribution of Multi-Source Remote Sensing Features for Random Forest Classification of the Greater Amanzule Tropical Peatland
Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) (13-05-2021)“…Tropical peatlands such as Ghana's Greater Amanzule peatland are highly valuable ecosystems and under great pressure from anthropogenic land use activities…”
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Predictive Modelling of Land Cover Changes in the Greater Amanzule Peatlands Using Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Techniques
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-11-2024)“…The Greater Amanzule Peatlands (GAP) in Ghana is an important biodiversity hotspot facing increasing pressure from anthropogenic land-use activities driven by…”
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Super-resolution image analysis as a means of monitoring bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) distributions
Published in ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing (01-01-2013)“…The bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) fern is environmentally significant due to its great abundance and swift colonisation, and its perception as a problem plant…”
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Time-Series Satellite Imagery Demonstrates the Progressive Failure of a City Master Plan to Control Urbanization in Abuja, Nigeria
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-04-2020)“…Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but its negative effects are most pronounced in developing countries. While much urbanization in the global South is…”
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Author Correction: Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation
Published in Nature communications (01-04-2020)“…An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper…”
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Natural forests loss and tree plantations: large-scale tree cover loss differentiation in a threatened biodiversity hotspot
Published in Environmental research letters (01-12-2020)“…Distinguishing between natural forests from exotic tree plantations is essential to get an accurate picture of the world's state of forests. Most exotic tree…”
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Probabilistic Mapping and Spatial Pattern Analysis of Grazing Lawns in Southern African Savannahs Using WorldView-3 Imagery and Machine Learning Techniques
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-10-2020)“…Savannah grazing lawns are a key food resource for large herbivores such as blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) and…”
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Developing the Role of Earth Observation in Spatio-Temporal Mosquito Modelling to Identify Malaria Hot-Spots
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-01-2023)“…Anopheles mosquitoes are the vectors of human malaria, a disease responsible for a significant burden of global disease and over half a million deaths in 2020…”
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Scrubbing Up: Multi-Scale Investigation of Woody Encroachment in a Southern African Savannah
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-05-2017)“…Changes in the extent of woody vegetation represent a major conservation question in many savannah systems around the globe. To address the problem of the…”
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Tropical Peatland Vegetation Structure and Biomass: Optimal Exploitation of Airborne Laser Scanning
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-05-2018)“…Accurate estimation of above ground biomass (AGB) is required to better understand the variability and dynamics of tropical peat swamp forest (PSF) ecosystem…”
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Innovative Technologies for Terrestrial Remote Sensing
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-04-2015)“…Characterizing and monitoring terrestrial, or land, surface features, such as forests, deserts, and cities, are fundamental and continuing goals of Earth…”
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Co-producing a Research Agenda for Sustainable Palm Oil
Published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (07-05-2019)“…The rise of palm oil as the world's most consumed vegetable oil has coincided with exponential growth in palm oil research activity. Bibliometric analysis of…”
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Woody species diversity in temperate Andean forests: The need for new conservation strategies
Published in Biological conservation (01-09-2010)“…Chile has more than half of the temperate forests in the southern hemisphere. These have been included among the most threatened eco-regions in the world,…”
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Bayesian Networks for Raster Data (BayNeRD): Plausible Reasoning from Observations
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-11-2013)“…This paper describes the basis functioning and implementation of a computer-aided Bayesian Network (BN) method that is able to incorporate experts’ knowledge…”
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Fine Spatial Resolution Simulated Satellite Sensor Imagery for Land Cover Mapping in the United Kingdom
Published in Remote sensing of environment (01-06-1999)“…This article presents a set of techniques developed to classify land cover on a per-parcel (herein termed per-field) basis by integrating fine spatial…”
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From peat swamp forest to oil palm plantations: The stability of tropical peatland carbon
Published in Geoderma (15-05-2019)“…Accurate assessment of tropical peatland carbon dynamics is important to (a) determine the size of the active carbon pool, (b) estimate the scale of transfers…”
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