A Methodology For The Multitemporal Analysis Of Land Cover Changes And Urban Expansion Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery - A Case Study Of The Aburrá Valley In Colombia
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17030554 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #SyntheticApertureRadar #SAR #remotesensing #multitemporalanalysis #landcover #landcoverchange #clustering #kurtosis #fuzzylogic #kernelbasedmethod #machinelearning #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #geostatistics #model #modeling #AburráValley #Columbia #urban #urbanexpansion #population #growth #topography #monitoring #satellite #sentinel #valley #landuse #distribution #infrastructure #building #roads #naturalresources #environmental #conservation #monitoring #multitemporal

Reintroducing #wolves to Scottish Highlands could help expand native woodland and store a million tonnes of CO2 annually. Currently growing red #deer populations eat tree saplings and suppress natural regeneration of #trees & woodland: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/news/article/5734/reintroducing-wolves-to-scottish-highlands-could-help-address-climate-emergency #landuse #biodiversity #forests

The common #farming view that #grassland regions are only good for #livestock amounts to a simplistic traditionality narrative that may discount the potential of these regions to align food production with balanced, diverse & #sustainable consumption. The narrative about what land is good for has been shaped as much by mutable human-made limitations and the #policy responses to them, as by the inherent qualities of land & soil types: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793324000219 #landuse #cattle #grazing #meat #dairy

Key drivers of dietary impacts of Swedish #children – for #carbon footprint, #landuse, phosphorus & #nitrogen inputs, blue #water, ammonia #emissions, #pesticide use, #biodiversity loss, #antibiotics use, and #animalwelfare – were red #meat & #dairy products… (1/x) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100281

Millan Millan : he helped us understand #rain

A pioneer in precipitation recycling and the small water cycle

#usa #canada #climatechange #water #eu #spain #africa #southafrica #india #Landuse #urbanism #urbanplanning

https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/millan-millan-he-helped-us-understand

Animal products have substantially bigger impacts on species’ #extinction risk than staple crops: animals require #grazing or cropland for feed production, which—with their inefficient feed conversion—leads to high #landuse and hence extinction impacts… (1/2) https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2024-fl5fk-v2

𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝘀𝗲: What would happen if we converted 15% of the Amazon #rainforest into farmland? Our MA students tackled such questions in their final projects for Dr. David Gampe's 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 seminar. Using #LPJmL, they explored the impacts of major #LandUse changes.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴? Think of it as a digital version of the real world that allows us to explore future scenarios, eg. #ClimateChange effects on agriculture. #sustainability #science #geography #gischat

#Agriculture is a key driver of #landuse change and terrestrial #carbon & biodiversity loss. But its environment #footprint can be reduced by sustained #productivity growth: Globally, historic crop improvement (1961-2015) resulted net in less #cropland expansion, lower GHG #emissions, and more plant & animal species being saved from extinction (plus the higher #yields generally lowered commodity prices of staple crops): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2404839122 #biodiversity #foodsecurity

Food production accounts for 25% of GHG #emissions, 70% of #biodiversity loss, 38% of #landuse & 70% of water use. Animal-based food has 10-50x higher emissions than #plant-based food, boosting #globalwarming. Plant-rich #diets could reduce food-related warming by 55%… (1/x) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2025.107886

#Diets are linked to GHG #emissions, water use & #landuse via food production. Analysing diets & their #environment impact is critical to know which should be promoted to enhance #sustainability. A life cycle assessment in #Ireland assessed primary impacts… (1/2) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.120974 #LCA