Quantitative estimation of land cover structure in an arid region across the Israel–Egypt border using remote sensing data

NDVI-Based Long-Term Vegetation Dynamics and Its Response to Climatic Change in the Mongolian Plateau

“…Figure 7 compares NDVI changes across the political border between China and Mongolia based on the transects designed as shown in Figure 1. Unlike the vegetation discontinuity and sharp contrast of vegetation cover observed along other political borders such as between the United States and Mexico [1] and between Israel and Egypt [40], no distinct difference in NDVI patterns was observed along the China-Mongolia border, as can be seen in Figure 5. However, three interesting features can be identified in Figure 7.…”

Remote Sensing based multi-temporal land cover classification and change detection in northwestern Ethiopia

“…The Landsat series of satellites are among the longest continuous record of satellite-based earth observation, which significantly supports the monitoring of environmental changes [Chander et al, 2009]. Various studies demonstrate the capability of Landsat imagery for monitoring long term environmental changes in dry lands [Qin et al, 2006;Karnieli et al, 2008;Abd El-Kawy et al, 2011;Vanderpost et al, 2011]. LULC change assessment illustrates modifications in the condition of important features over time [Singh, 1989;Yeh et al, 1996].…”

The effect of sand grain size on the development of cyanobacterial biocrusts

“…Biocrusts are dominated by cyanobacteria and may also include lichens, mosses, green algae, microfungi, and bacteria (Belnap and Lange, 2001). In natural drylands across the world, biocrusts cover vast regions and may amount to 70% of the ground cover (Buis et al, 2009;Eldridge and Greene, 1994;Karnieli et al, 2002;Qin et al, 2006).…”