AGU 2015

We had three presentations at this years AGU fall meeting in San Francisco. Find the posters and presentations as PDFs here (the copyright is with the authors): Feng Tian, Martin Brandt, Yi Liu, Rasmus Fensholt. Remote sensing of biomass dynamics in drylands: Evaluating vegetation optical depth (VOD) using AVHRR NDVI and in situ data. AGU …

What Four Decades of Earth Observation Tell us about Land Degradation in the Sahel

From: Mbow, C.; Brandt, M.; Ouedraogo, I.; de Leeuw, J.; Marshall, M. What Four Decades of Earth Observation Tell Us about Land Degradation in the Sahel? Remote Sens. 2015, 7, 4048-4067. Land degradation mechanisms are related to two main categories, one related to climate change and one associated with local human impact, mostly land use …

Modeling Soil and Woody Vegetation in the Senegalese Sahel in the Context of Environmental Change

We have another interesting article about environmental change in the Sahel online. For this article, we used a Random Forest classifier and remote sensing products, to model a soil map in the Senegalese Sahel. If people are interested, I can put the R code online. Brandt, M.; Grau, T.; Mbow, C.; Samimi, C. Modeling Soil …

Environmental change in time series – An interdisciplinary study in the Sahel of Mali and Senegal

Our next article is now online in the Journal of Arid Environments: Brandt, M., Romankiewicz, C., Spiekermann, R. & C. Samimi: Environmental change in time series – An interdisciplinary study in the Sahel of Mali and Senegal. Journal of Arid Environments 105, June 2014, Pages 52-63. It is available here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196314000536 Abstract: Climatic changes and human activities have caused …