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Announcement: Remote Sensing of Environment, Special Issue:
➡️Development, Validation, and Application of Medium- and High-Resolution Satellite Products at Regional to Global Scales
Builds on Radeloff et al. 2024 (113918) data products review in RSE.
Details: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Remote sensing is our Time Machine.

UConn Researchers Tracking Change in Precious Ecosystems - UConn Today Remote Sensing is a powerful tool and can be used as a time machine to track biodiversity loss

Old-growth forests are some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. Remote sensing works as a "time machine" to understand how these forests change -- and how these changes impact biodiversity. 🌎 @gerslab.bsky.social

today.uconn.edu/2025/02/ucon...

GERS Laboratory is featured in UConn Today with a cool video!

How unique is branch arrangement—unique enough to be like fingerprints? 🧐
Yrttimaa et al. Quantifying architectural uniqueness of Scots pine trees using terrestrial laser scanning: toward individual tree fingerprinting. Forestry. #TLS #lidar #openaccess
🔗https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpae058

Biophysical effects of croplands on land surface temperature - Nature Communications Croplands alter land surface temperature, with 60% warming and 40% cooling effects globally. Temperature changes are driven by convection, which is influenced by leaf area index differences. The warmi...

New research reveals that croplands can have both warming and cooling effects on land surface temperature, depending on factors like regional climate and surrounding vegetation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GIF photo that show the spatial-temporal pattern of disturbances and the subsequent recovery and resilience estimates.

UConn Researchers Develop Pioneering Monitoring Technique to Help Build Mangrove Resilience - UConn Today Mangroves are like armor to protect us from climate change, but faced with sea level rise and extreme weather, will these important habitats survive?

Mangroves are like armor to protect us from climate change -- but when faced with sea level rise and extreme weather, will these important habitats survive? That's what a team of UConn researchers is looking to find out.

today.uconn.edu/2024/11/ucon...

DECODER - expanded on the DECODE algorithm for tracking mangrove recovery (where the last letter R comes from) is developed by @xiucheng_yang. Change is never a binary thing, and we gave four mangrove conditions: healthy, disturbed, recover, & decline.

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...