More than 1.8 billion individual trees can be found in the West African Sahara, Sahel and sub-humid zone, according to a report in Nature this week. A combination of high-resolution satellite imaging and deep learning has revealed a relatively high density of tree coverage for this arid area. Accurate mapping […]
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Better late, than never. In August 2020, I was so lucky to get a centerpiece of my dissertation (entitled Global Dryland Vegetation: Extent, functioning and drivers of change), which I defended in May the same year, published in Nature Sustainability. The article is concerned with questions about where and why […]
Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen, a visiting PhD student at IGN and her co-supervisor Ass. Prof. Alexander Prishchepov have published a new article about three-dimensional urban form monitoring using a semantic segmentation framework and Landsat time series analysis. See the full publication in Remote Sensing of Environment: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1bnBl7qzSr7Gv Urban land cover grows […]
Most of the ESD research group participated in the annual retreat at Faxeladeplads – picture from the late afternoon break at the seaside