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Evaluating Flood Damage to Paddy Rice Fields Using PlanetScope and Sentinel-1 Data in North-Western Nigeria: Towards Potential Climate Adaptation Strategies by Ibrahim, Sa’ad, Balzter, Heiko

“…Floods are significant global disasters, but their impact in developing countries is greater due to the lower shock tolerance, many subsistence farmers, land…”
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Mapping CORINE Land Cover from Sentinel-1A SAR and SRTM Digital Elevation Model Data using Random Forests by Balzter, Heiko, Cole, Beth, Thiel, Christian, Schmullius, Christiane

“…The European CORINE land cover mapping scheme is a standardized classification system with 44 land cover and land use classes. It is used by the European…”
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Spatial variation of the daytime Surface Urban Cool Island during the dry season in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, from Landsat 8 by Rasul, Azad, Balzter, Heiko, Smith, Claire

“…•Densely built-up areas and green areas, had lower LST acting as cool islands.•Open spaces and new low-density housing developments, experienced higher…”
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Plant Family-Specific Impacts of Petroleum Pollution on Biodiversity and Leaf Chlorophyll Content in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador by Arellano, Paul, Tansey, Kevin, Balzter, Heiko, Tellkamp, Markus

“…In recent decades petroleum pollution in the tropical rainforest has caused significant environmental damage in vast areas of the Amazon region. At present the…”
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Influence of Impervious Surface Area and Fractional Vegetation Cover on Seasonal Urban Surface Heating/Cooling Rates by Zhang, Youshui, Balzter, Heiko, Li, Yu

“…The urban thermal environment is impacted by changes in urban landscape patterns resulting from urban expansion and seasonal variation. In order to cope…”
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Magnitude, spatial distribution and uncertainty of forest biomass stocks in Mexico by Rodríguez-Veiga, Pedro, Saatchi, Sassan, Tansey, Kevin, Balzter, Heiko

“…Existing forest biomass stock maps show discrepancies with in-situ observations in Mexico. Ground data from the National Forest and Soil Inventory of Mexico…”
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Effects of improved land-cover mapping on predicted ecosystem service outcomes in a lowland river catchment by Rayner, Max, Balzter, Heiko, Jones, Laurence, Whelan, Mick, Stoate, Chris

“…•Open access to high quality satellite data drives improved land cover mapping at multiple scales.•A 10 m resolution map produced in Google Earth Engine was…”
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A Machine-Learning Approach to PolInSAR and LiDAR Data Fusion for Improved Tropical Forest Canopy Height Estimation Using NASA AfriSAR Campaign Data by Pourshamsi, Maryam, Garcia, Mariano, Lavalle, Marco, Balzter, Heiko

“…This paper investigates the benefits of integrating multibaseline polarimetric interferometric SAR (PolInSAR) data with LiDAR measurements using a…”
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Land Degradation Assessment Using Residual Trend Analysis of GIMMS NDVI3g, Soil Moisture and Rainfall in Sub-Saharan West Africa from 1982 to 2012 by Ibrahim, Yahaya Z, Balzter, Heiko, Kaduk, Jorg, Tucker, Compton J

“…Areas affected by land degradation in Sub-Saharan West Africa between 1982 and 2012 are identified using time-series analysis of vegetation index data derived…”
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Oil Spill SAR Image Segmentation via Probability Distribution Modeling by Chen, Fang, Zhang, Aihua, Balzter, Heiko, Ren, Peng, Zhou, Huiyu

“…Segmentation of marine oil spills in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a challenging task because of the complexity and irregularities in SAR images. In…”
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Assessment of ecophysiology of lake shore reed vegetation based on chlorophyll fluorescence, field spectroscopy and hyperspectral airborne imagery by Stratoulias, Dimitris, Balzter, Heiko, Zlinszky, András, Tóth, Viktor R.

“…Since the beginning of the 1960s an escalating deterioration of reed beds in parts of Europe has been often observed. Hence, the ‘reed die-back’ as it was…”
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Rapid and extensive expansion of shrub encroachment into grassland in Xilin Gol League, China, and its driving forces by Lv, Xiaoqing, Liu, Jianhong, Balzter, Heiko, Dong, Ziyue, Li, Jinnuo, Zhang, Wei, Guo, Yige

“…[Display omitted] •Shrub encroachment investigation over the last 30 years revealed accelerated upward trend.•Low-elevation and plain regions are susceptible…”
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Analyzing the Impacts of Urbanization and Seasonal Variation on Land Surface Temperature Based on Subpixel Fractional Covers Using Landsat Images by Zhang, Youshui, Balzter, Heiko, Liu, Bin, Chen, Yajun

“…Impervious surface areas (ISAs) and vegetation are two major urban land cover types. Estimating the spatial distribution of ISA and vegetation is critical for…”
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Estimating Daily Reference Evapotranspiration in a Semi-Arid Region Using Remote Sensing Data by Najmaddin, Peshawa M., Whelan, Mick J., Balzter, Heiko

“…Estimating daily evapotranspiration is challenging when ground observation data are not available or scarce. Remote sensing can be used to estimate the…”
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Mapping Lantana camara and Leucaena leucocephala in Protected Areas of Pakistan: A Geo-Spatial Approach by Iqbal, Iram M., Balzter, Heiko, Firdaus-e-Bareen, Shabbir, Asad

“…Invasive alien plants are considered as one of the major causes of loss of native biodiversity around the world. Remote sensing provides an opportunity to…”
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Machine learning feature importance selection for predicting aboveground biomass in African savannah with landsat 8 and ALOS PALSAR data by Ibrahim, Sa'ad, Balzter, Heiko, Tansey, Kevin

“…In remote sensing, multiple input bands are derived from various sensors covering different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Each spectral band plays a…”
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Identifying the Spectral Signatures of Invasive and Native Plant Species in Two Protected Areas of Pakistan through Field Spectroscopy by Iqbal, Iram M., Balzter, Heiko, Firdaus-e-Bareen, Shabbir, Asad

“…Globally, biological invasions are considered as one of the major contributing factors for the loss of indigenous biological diversity. Hyperspectral remote…”
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Applying Built-Up and Bare-Soil Indices from Landsat 8 to Cities in Dry Climates by Rasul, Azad, Balzter, Heiko, Ibrahim, Gaylan, Hameed, Hasan, Wheeler, James, Adamu, Bashir, Ibrahim, Sa’ad, Najmaddin, Peshawa

“…Arid and semi-arid regions have different spectral characteristics from other climatic regions. Therefore, appropriate remotely sensed indicators of land use…”
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Estimating Ecological Responses to Climatic Variability on Reclaimed and Unmined Lands Using Enhanced Vegetation Index by Fan, Xiang, Song, Yongze, Zhu, Chuxin, Balzter, Heiko, Bai, Zhongke

“…Climatic impact on re-established ecosystems at reclaimed mined lands may have changed. However, little knowledge is available about the difference in…”
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Modelling Hourly Global Horizontal Irradiance from Satellite-Derived Datasets and Climate Variables as New Inputs with Artificial Neural Networks by Ameen, Bikhtiyar, Balzter, Heiko, Jarvis, Claire, Wheeler, James

“…More accurate data of hourly Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI) are required in the field of solar energy in areas with limited ground measurements. The aim of…”
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