For those new to R, see theinstall_gfcanalysis.Rscript. This script provides guidance on how to download and install the (development version) of the package in R. For an example of how to run the package to calculate forest change statistics for a given area of interest (AOI), see the...
Specifically, we assessed the accuracy and bias of two fractional cover products, MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) and Hansen Global Forest Change (GFC), and one global canopy height model, Global Forest Canopy Height Model (CHM), in comparison with the same variables derived from local ...
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Forest loss data was obtained from the Hansen Global Forest Change v1.8 (2000-2020) dataset (https://storage.googleapis.com/earthenginepartners-hansen/GFC-2020-v1.8/download.html)62. According to this dataset, vegetation that exceeds a height of 5 m is classified as tree cover. Forest loss...
Fig. 4: Comparison of forest, cropland and pasture/rangeland changes. Full size image Comparing the rate of global land use change Full size image Table 1 Comparison of land use/cover datasets. Land cover change rates derived from higher-resolution remote sensing datasets such as Hansen GFC66,...
Effects of boreal forest vegetation on global climate TERRESTRIAL ecosystems are thought to play an important role in determining regional and global climate 1–6 ; one example of this is in Amazonia, where de... GB Bonan,D Pollard,SL Thompson - 《Nature》 被引量: 1881发表: 1992年 Albedo ...
inflation and economic growth. As Bob Pollin has explained and elaborated in great detail in his work, climate change, if left to itself, will cause enormous economic damage – droughts will lead to famines; rising sea waters will flood...
Understanding the impacts of the 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis on sustainable forest management in the Brazilian Amazon: A case study In 2007 and 2008, the world experienced a significant Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Several factors were perceived as drivers of the crisis, however, its ......
When we talk about inflation and the perniciousness of inflation being the most regressive tax of all, and the fact that we have sticky components in inflation that are unrelated to oil and barrel counters of oil might just completely dismiss, well, that’s where you miss the forest from th...
We all know that global warming is causing climate change characterised by increasingly severe weather events which damage property, destroy food crops and is likely to have catastrophic effects with multi metre sea level rise later this century. Strong winds and floods, forest fires and droughts ar...