Mapping South America’s Drylands through Remote Sensing—A Review of the Methodological Trends and Current Challenges

Drone-Based Remote Sensing for Research on Wind Erosion in Drylands: Possible Applications

(2021) Junzhe Zhang et al.   Remote Sensing

Spatial Random Forest (S-RF): A random forest approach for spatially interpolating missing land-cover data with multiple classes

(2021) Jacinta Holloway-Brown et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

No projected global drylands expansion under greenhouse warming

(2021) Alexis Berg et al.   Nature Climate Change

Biogeography of global drylands

(2021) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A review of fire effects across South American ecosystems: the role of climate and time since fire

(2021) Melisa A. Giorgis et al.   Fire Ecology

The Brazilian Cerrado is becoming hotter and drier

(2021) Gabriel S. Hofmann et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A Systematic Review of Landsat Data for Change Detection Applications: 50 Years of Monitoring the Earth

(2021) MohammadAli Hemati et al.   Remote Sensing

Estimating and Monitoring Land Surface Phenology in Rangelands: A Review of Progress and Challenges

(2021) Trylee Nyasha Matongera et al.   Remote Sensing

Understanding Brazil’s catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies

(2021) Vânia R. Pivello et al.   Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

Landsat Analysis Ready Data for Global Land Cover and Land Cover Change Mapping

(2020) Peter Potapov et al.   Remote Sensing

Global‐scale characterization of turning points in arid and semi‐arid ecosystem functioning

(2020) Paulo N. Bernardino et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers—Collection 2

(2020) Marcel Buchhorn et al.   Remote Sensing

An Overview of Platforms for Big Earth Observation Data Management and Analysis

(2020) Vitor C. F. Gomes et al.   Remote Sensing

SATVeg: A web-based tool for visualization of MODIS vegetation indices in South America

(2020) Júlio César Dalla Mora Esquerdo et al.   COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE

Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km2 of drylands towards desertification

(2020) A. L. Burrell et al.   Nature Communications

Assessment of rainfall variability and future change in Brazil across multiple timescales

(2020) Lincoln M. Alves et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine

(2020) Carlos M. Souza et al.   Remote Sensing

The MARAS dataset, vegetation and soil characteristics of dryland rangelands across Patagonia

(2020) Gabriel Oliva et al.   Scientific Data

Quantifying responses of net primary productivity to agricultural expansion in drylands

(2020) Ning Pan et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Open Data and Machine Learning to Model the Occurrence of Fire in the Ecoregion of “Llanos Colombo–Venezolanos”

(2020) Joan Sebastian Barreto et al.   Remote Sensing

Earth Observation Data Cubes for Brazil: Requirements, Methodology and Products

(2020) Karine R. Ferreira et al.   Remote Sensing

Automated LULC map production using deep neural networks

(2019) Christopher J. Henry et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

30 m Resolution Global Annual Burned Area Mapping Based on Landsat Images and Google Earth Engine

(2019) Tengfei Long et al.   Remote Sensing

Hierarchical mapping of annual global land cover 2001 to present: The MODIS Collection 6 Land Cover product

(2019) Damien Sulla-Menashe et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Understanding the relationship between vegetation greenness and productivity across dryland ecosystems through the integration of PhenoCam, satellite, and eddy covariance data

(2019) D. Yan et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Historical background and current developments for mapping burned area from satellite Earth observation

(2019) Emilio Chuvieco et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Regional Scale Dryland Vegetation Classification with an Integrated Lidar-Hyperspectral Approach

(2019) Hamid Dashti et al.   Remote Sensing

Leafing Patterns and Drivers across Seasonally Dry Tropical Communities

(2019) Bruna Alberton et al.   Remote Sensing

Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

(2019) William K. Smith et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities

(2019) Harry West et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Proposing a Novel Predictive Technique for Gully Erosion Susceptibility Mapping in Arid and Semi-arid Regions (Iran)

(2019) Arabameri et al.   Remote Sensing

Extreme Drought Events over Brazil from 2011 to 2019

(2019) Ana Paula M. A. Cunha et al.   Atmosphere

From woody cover to woody canopies: How Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data advance the mapping of woody plants in savannas

(2019) Wenmin Zhang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Use of remote sensing indicators to assess effects of drought and human-induced land degradation on ecosystem health in Northeastern Brazil

(2018) Denis A. Mariano et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions

(2018) Luiz E. O. C. Aragão et al.   Nature Communications

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Data to Support Monitoring of Dryland Ecosystems

(2018) Neal Pastick et al.   Remote Sensing

Optimisation of Savannah Land Cover Characterisation with Optical and SAR Data

(2018) Elias Symeonakis et al.   Remote Sensing

The Collection 6 MODIS burned area mapping algorithm and product

(2018) Louis Giglio et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Land degradation assessment in the Argentinean Puna: Comparing expert knowledge with satellite-derived information

(2018) César Luis García et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Automatic land cover classification of geo-tagged field photos by deep learning

(2017) Guang Xu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Spatial prediction of wildfire probability in the Hyrcanian ecoregion using evidential belief function model and GIS

(2017) M. H. Nami et al.   International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Desertification and ecosystem services supply: The case of the Arid Chaco of South America

(2017) Santiago R. Verón et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

A New Dryland Development Paradigm Grounded in Empirical Analysis of Dryland Systems Science

(2017) Lindsay C. Stringer et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Linking wind erosion to ecosystem services in drylands: a landscape ecological approach

(2017) Yuanyuan Zhao et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

The Australian Geoscience Data Cube — Foundations and lessons learned

(2017) Adam Lewis et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Dryland climate change: Recent progress and challenges

(2017) J. Huang et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Drylands face potential threat under 2 °C global warming target

(2017) Jianping Huang et al.   Nature Climate Change

The Forests of the Amazon and Cerrado Moderate Regional Climate and Are the Key to the Future

(2017) Michael T. Coe et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Phenocams Bridge the Gap between Field and Satellite Observations in an Arid Grassland Ecosystem

(2017) Dawn Browning et al.   Remote Sensing

Introducing digital cameras to monitor plant phenology in the tropics: applications for conservation

(2017) Bruna Alberton et al.   Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

Linking plant phenology to conservation biology

(2016) Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira Morellato et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Drylands extent and environmental issues. A global approach

(2016) Remus Prăvălie   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ecosystem Responses to Fire: Identifying Cross-taxa Contrasts and Complementarities to Inform Management Strategies

(2016) Tim S. Doherty et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Mapping gains and losses in woody vegetation across global tropical drylands

(2016) Feng Tian et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Optical remotely sensed time series data for land cover classification: A review

(2016) Cristina Gómez et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Fire–vegetation feedbacks and alternative states: common mechanisms of temperate forest vulnerability to fire in southern South America and New Zealand

(2016) T Kitzberger et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Assessing woody vegetation trends in Sahelian drylands using MODIS based seasonal metrics

(2016) Martin Brandt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Remote sensing of vegetation dynamics in drylands: Evaluating vegetation optical depth (VOD) using AVHRR NDVI and in situ green biomass data over West African Sahel

(2016) Feng Tian et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Detailed dynamic land cover mapping of Chile: Accuracy improvement by integrating multi-temporal data

(2016) Yuanyuan Zhao et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Caatinga: The Scientific Negligence Experienced by a Dry Tropical Forest

(2016) Jean Carlos Santos et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Structural–functional approach to identify post-disturbance recovery indicators in forests from northwestern Patagonia: A tool to prevent state transitions

(2015) L. Cavallero et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Remote-sensing application for facilitating land resource assessment and monitoring for utility-scale solar energy development

(2015) Yuki Hamada et al.   Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

(2015) A. Ahlstrom et al.   SCIENCE

Drought Variability and Land Degradation in Semiarid Regions: Assessment Using Remote Sensing Data and Drought Indices (1982–2011)

(2015) Sergio Vicente-Serrano et al.   Remote Sensing

Environmental change and the carbon balance of Amazonian forests

(2014) Luiz E. O. C. Aragão et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

The New VIIRS 375m active fire detection data product: Algorithm description and initial assessment

(2014) Wilfrid Schroeder et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Land Cover Characterization and Mapping of South America for the Year 2010 Using Landsat 30 m Satellite Data

(2014) Chandra Giri et al.   Remote Sensing

Land-use land-cover change and ecosystem loss in the Espinal ecoregion, Argentina

(2013) Bárbara Guida-Johnson et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Sustainable Land Management (SLM) Practices in Drylands: How Do They Address Desertification Threats?

(2013) G. Schwilch et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Earth Stewardship of rangelands: coping with ecological, economic, and political marginality

(2013) Nathan F Sayre et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Improving 30 m global land-cover map FROM-GLC with time series MODIS and auxiliary data sets: a segmentation-based approach

(2013) Le Yu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

A land cover map of Latin America and the Caribbean in the framework of the SERENA project

(2013) Paula D. Blanco et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Can renewable energy technologies improve the management of stressed water resources threatened by climate change? Argentine drylands case study

(2013) Gustavo Horacio Nadal et al.   ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

Enhanced land use/cover classification of heterogeneous tropical landscapes using support vector machines and textural homogeneity

(2012) Jaime Paneque-Gálvez et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data: opportunities and challenges

(2012) John R. Townshend et al.   International Journal of Digital Earth

Finer resolution observation and monitoring of global land cover: first mapping results with Landsat TM and ETM+ data

(2012) Peng Gong et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Landsat remote sensing approaches for monitoring long-term tree cover dynamics in semi-arid woodlands: Comparison of vegetation indices and spectral mixture analysis

(2012) Jian Yang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Land change for all municipalities in Latin America and the Caribbean assessed from 250-m MODIS imagery (2001–2010)

(2012) Matthew L. Clark et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   SCIENCE

A review of climate geoengineering proposals

(2011) Naomi E. Vaughan et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Towards a World Desertification Atlas. Relating and selecting indicators and data sets to represent complex issues

(2011) C. Zucca et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Geo-Wiki: An online platform for improving global land cover

(2011) Steffen Fritz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

An international terminology for grazing lands and grazing animals

(2011) V.G. Allen et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Burned area mapping with MERIS post-fire image

(2011) P. Oliva et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Fire patterns in central semiarid Argentina

(2011) M.A. Fischer et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Application of indicator systems for monitoring and assessment of desertification from national to global scales

(2011) S. Sommer et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Using Remote Sensing Products for Environmental Analysis in South America

(2011) Francielle da Silva Cardozo et al.   Remote Sensing

Production of global land cover data – GLCNMO

(2010) Ryutaro Tateishi et al.   International Journal of Digital Earth

Support vector machines in remote sensing: A review

(2010) Giorgos Mountrakis et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Fire–rainfall relationships in Argentine Chaco savannas

(2010) S. Bravo et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

A scalable approach to mapping annual land cover at 250 m using MODIS time series data: A case study in the Dry Chaco ecoregion of South America

(2010) Matthew L. Clark et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Ecohydrological effects of grazing-induced degradation in the Patagonian Monte, Argentina

(2009) ALEJANDRO JORGE BISIGATO et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Spatial and temporal variability of fires in relation to ecosystems, land tenure and rainfall in savannas of northern South America

(2009) M. ROMERO-RUIZ et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Emerging horizons in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research

(2009) Julia Reiss et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Geo-Wiki.Org: The Use of Crowdsourcing to Improve Global Land Cover

(2009) Steffen Fritz et al.   Remote Sensing

A new, global, multi-annual (2000–2007) burnt area product at 1 km resolution

(2008) Kevin Tansey et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Some challenges in global land cover mapping: An assessment of agreement and accuracy in existing 1 km datasets

(2008) M. Herold et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Proxy global assessment of land degradation

(2008) Z. G. Bai et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Effects of slash and burn practices on a soil seed bank of caatinga vegetation in Northeastern Brazil

(2007) M. de A. Mamede et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS