The consequences of climate change are evidenced, inter alia, by changes in biodiversity. A key task of biodiversity research is to record the current situation, study processes within ecosystems and ...

Using remote sensing to keep an eye on the trees offers an effective way to monitor groundwater along river corridors in the Southwest Spend time in any of the world’s great forests and you’ll start ...

The "Optical Remote Sensing of Water" team in Berlin-Adlershof develops algorithms for the interpretation of optical remote sensing data from coastal and inland waters for monitoring and assessing ...

Remote sensing has made it easier for scientists to monitor rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. Will it help us be smarter about how we manage them? The Congo River is the world’s second-largest river ...

Productivity and stability of forest ecosystems strongly depend on the functional diversity of plant communities. Researchers have developed a new method to measure and map functional diversity of ...

SHIJIAZHUANG — Chinese researchers recently initiated remote sensing experiments for vegetation and soil moisture in Hebei province, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Aerospace Information ...

A UC Santa Barbara-led team has developed a systematic map of methods to assess the societal benefits of Earth science information, moving beyond purely monetary valuations. Their study in PNAS ...

The most common and accepted definition of permafrost refers to the thermal conditions of the subsurface earth. Permafrost is defined as soil, rock, and any other subsurface earth material that exists ...