Search Results - "Clinton, Nicholas"
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MODIS detected surface urban heat islands and sinks: Global locations and controls
Published in Remote sensing of environment (01-07-2013)“…Urbanization is a global problem with emergent properties. The difference in temperature between urban and rural surfaces is one such property that affects…”
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Rainforest-initiated wet season onset over the southern Amazon
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (08-08-2017)“…Although it is well established that transpiration contributes much of the water for rainfall over Amazonia, it remains unclear whether transpiration helps to…”
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The global distribution and trajectory of tidal flats
Published in Nature (London) (01-01-2019)“…Increasing human populations around the global coastline have caused extensive loss, degradation and fragmentation of coastal ecosystems, threatening the…”
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Mapping the yearly extent of surface coal mining in Central Appalachia using Landsat and Google Earth Engine
Published in PloS one (25-07-2018)“…Surface mining for coal has taken place in the Central Appalachian region of the United States for well over a century, with a notable increase since the…”
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Mapping major land cover dynamics in Beijing using all Landsat images in Google Earth Engine
Published in Remote sensing of environment (01-12-2017)“…Land cover in Beijing experienced a dramatic change due to intensive human activities, such as urbanization and afforestation. However, the spatial patterns of…”
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Globally consistent assessment of coastal eutrophication
Published in Nature communications (22-10-2021)“…Eutrophication is an emerging global issue associated with increasing anthropogenic nutrient loading. The impacts and extent of eutrophication are often…”
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A mangrove forest map of China in 2015: Analysis of time series Landsat 7/8 and Sentinel-1A imagery in Google Earth Engine cloud computing platform
Published in ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing (01-09-2017)“…Due to rapid losses of mangrove forests caused by anthropogenic disturbances and climate change, accurate and contemporary maps of mangrove forests are needed…”
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Annual dynamics of global land cover and its long-term changes from 1982 to 2015
Published in Earth system science data (03-06-2020)“…Land cover is the physical material at the surface of the Earth. As the cause and result of global environmental change, land cover change (LCC) influences the…”
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Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data
Published in Environmental research letters (01-09-2020)“…Urban boundaries, an essential property of cities, are widely used in many urban studies. However, extracting urban boundaries from satellite images is still a…”
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Using Landsat and nighttime lights for supervised pixel-based image classification of urban land cover
Published in Remote sensing of environment (01-02-2018)“…Reliable representations of global urban extent remain limited, hindering scientific progress across a range of disciplines that study functionality of…”
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Forest disturbance alerts for the Congo Basin using Sentinel-1
Published in Environmental research letters (01-02-2021)“…A humid tropical forest disturbance alert using Sentinel-1 radar data is presented for the Congo Basin. Radar satellite signals can penetrate through clouds,…”
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Europe-wide air pollution modeling from 2000 to 2019 using geographically weighted regression
Published in Environment international (01-10-2022)“…•We included spatially-varying relationships in our Europe-wide models.•We built spatially- and temporally-varying models to estimate annual air…”
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Mapping the maximum extents of urban green spaces in 1039 cities using dense satellite images
Published in Environmental research letters (01-06-2021)“…Abstract Spatial data of urban green spaces (UGS) are critical for cities worldwide to evaluate their progress towards achieving the urban sustainable…”
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Landscape analysis of wetland plant functional types: The effects of image segmentation scale, vegetation classes and classification methods
Published in Remote sensing of environment (01-12-2012)“…Remote sensing-based analyses of vegetation function such as photosynthesis and productivity are challenging in wetlands with complex cover and difficult field…”
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Comparing Sentinel-1 Surface Water Mapping Algorithms and Radiometric Terrain Correction Processing in Southeast Asia Utilizing Google Earth Engine
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-08-2020)“…Satellite remote sensing plays an important role in the monitoring of surface water for historical analysis and near real-time applications. Due to its cloud…”
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A cellular automata downscaling based 1 km global land use datasets (2010–2100)
Published in Science bulletin (Beijing) (01-11-2016)“…Global climate and environmental change studies require detailed land-use and land-cover (LULC) information about the past, present, and future. In this paper,…”
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A Global Geospatial Ecosystem Services Estimate of Urban Agriculture
Published in Earth's future (01-01-2018)“…Though urban agriculture (UA), defined here as growing of crops in cities, is increasing in popularity and importance globally, little is known about the…”
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The first all-season sample set for mapping global land cover with Landsat-8 data
Published in Science bulletin (Beijing) (15-04-2017)“…We report the world's first all-season training and validation sample sets for global land cover classification with Landsat-8 data. Prior to this, such…”
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Historical and Operational Monitoring of Surface Sediments in the Lower Mekong Basin Using Landsat and Google Earth Engine Cloud Computing
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-06-2018)“…Reservoir construction and land use change are altering sediment transport within river systems at a global scale. Changes in sediment transport can impact…”
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