Water quality is a cornerstone of aquatic ecosystem health, with implications that extend from local water management to global environmental policy. Recent technological advances have markedly ...
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 ...
Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) and the Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NIERSC) of St. Petersburg, Russia have developed a new algorithm for the retrieval of ...
Primary forests, or old-growth forests as they are sometimes called, are epicenters of rich biodiversity, are more resilient ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new soil-moisture retrieval strategy has improved the accuracy of satellite-based moisture mapping by combining microwave ...