An overview of global desertification control efforts: Key challenges and overarching solutions DOI
Zeeshan Ahmed, Dongwei GUI, Sameh Kotb Abd‐Elmabod

et al.

Soil Use and Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 40(4)

Published: Oct. 1, 2024

Abstract Desertification threatens land integrity, social stability, and sustainable global economic development. Between 1982 2015, 6% of the world's drylands experienced desertification because unsustainable use practices exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change. Despite initiating several regional projects to control actively, United Nations Convention Combat (UNCCD) failed achieve its restoration goals. Therefore, this paper thoroughly examines primary factors contributing desertification, identifies obstacles impeding efforts, presents effective solutions combat pressing issue. Poor policy awareness about institutional gaps, cultural barriers, limited access credit modern technologies, lack standardization, inconsistent estimates extent were main constraints hindering efforts. However, implementing crucial approaches could effectively address challenge desertification. The capacity building, education, training should be more comprehensive for local communities, but managers, government officials, development planners part this. Local indigenous knowledge integrated with scientific get a better harvest against Sustainable management enhance soil productivity advanced technology (remote sensing, digital maps, machine learning data mining) help standardize procedures accurately assess Different can stabilize wind water erosion, such as bio‐cementing biocrust formation. Converting degraded areas into green spaces create 10 million jobs foster economy in developing countries. Finally, aspirant targets goals (SDGs), it is imperative carry out research on utilizing sound investing institutes next generation researchers.

Language: Английский

A Study on Wavelet Transform-Based Inversion Method for Forest Leaf Area Index Retrieval DOI Open Access
Peicheng Wang, Ling Tong, Xun Gong

et al.

Forests, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16(5), P. 736 - 736

Published: April 25, 2025

Leaf Area Index (LAI) is one of the key parameters for characterizing leaf density, vegetation growth status, and canopy structure. Rapid, objective, accurate acquisition forest LAI great significance studying ecosystems forestry production. This study focuses on core issue accurately segmenting elements from background in hemispherical photography used measurement, with a particular focus meeting real-time requirements embedded platforms. The differences grayscale values frequency characteristics between regions, trunk sky regions images were leveraged to decompose, process, reconstruct such using 9/7 wavelet-based transformation method, achieving efficient precise segmentation regions. Effectively addresses overestimation caused by traditional threshold-based methods. Through extraction gap fraction, rapid measurement was enabled. Comparative experimental results showed that proposed inversion method exhibited high correlation LAI-2200C (r = 0.847, RMSE 0.431), fully verifying its accuracy across different ecological environments. provides strong support development portable, high-precision devices holds practical application value broad prospects.

Language: Английский

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Quantifying land surface changes to climatic and anthropogenic forcings by analyses of a time-series of remotely sensed images from 1936 to 2021 for a former dust bowl drought area in western Kansas, USA DOI Creative Commons

Sowmya Revanna,

Steven L. Forman,

Liliana Marìn

et al.

Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 101574 - 101574

Published: April 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Advancements in Monitoring Tree Phenology Under Global Change: A Comprehensive Review DOI Open Access
Dalong Jiang, Xu Zuo,

Tao Nie

et al.

Forests, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16(5), P. 771 - 771

Published: April 30, 2025

This comprehensive review explores recent advancements in monitoring tree phenology the context of global change. As climate change continues to alter ecosystems worldwide, understanding has become increasingly crucial for predicting ecological responses and informing conservation strategies. examines traditional ground-based observation methods, highlights their strengths limitations, discusses integration modern technologies such as remote sensing, digital cameras, sensor networks. Special attention is given role citizen science initiatives expanding phenological data collection. also addresses challenges posed by monitoring, including shifting patterns complexities. Furthermore, it applications research, ecosystem management, biodiversity conservation. The paper concludes identifying future directions emerging that promise revolutionize emphasizing need interdisciplinary collaboration standardized methodologies enhance our a rapidly changing world.

Language: Английский

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Integrating UAV and Landsat data: A two-scale approach to topsoil moisture mapping in coastal wetlands DOI Creative Commons
Ricardo Martínez Prentice, Miguel Villoslada, Raymond D. Ward

et al.

Ecological Informatics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 89, P. 103197 - 103197

Published: May 10, 2025

Language: Английский

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An overview of global desertification control efforts: Key challenges and overarching solutions DOI
Zeeshan Ahmed, Dongwei GUI, Sameh Kotb Abd‐Elmabod

et al.

Soil Use and Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 40(4)

Published: Oct. 1, 2024

Abstract Desertification threatens land integrity, social stability, and sustainable global economic development. Between 1982 2015, 6% of the world's drylands experienced desertification because unsustainable use practices exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change. Despite initiating several regional projects to control actively, United Nations Convention Combat (UNCCD) failed achieve its restoration goals. Therefore, this paper thoroughly examines primary factors contributing desertification, identifies obstacles impeding efforts, presents effective solutions combat pressing issue. Poor policy awareness about institutional gaps, cultural barriers, limited access credit modern technologies, lack standardization, inconsistent estimates extent were main constraints hindering efforts. However, implementing crucial approaches could effectively address challenge desertification. The capacity building, education, training should be more comprehensive for local communities, but managers, government officials, development planners part this. Local indigenous knowledge integrated with scientific get a better harvest against Sustainable management enhance soil productivity advanced technology (remote sensing, digital maps, machine learning data mining) help standardize procedures accurately assess Different can stabilize wind water erosion, such as bio‐cementing biocrust formation. Converting degraded areas into green spaces create 10 million jobs foster economy in developing countries. Finally, aspirant targets goals (SDGs), it is imperative carry out research on utilizing sound investing institutes next generation researchers.

Language: Английский

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