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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-5375-2024
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-5375-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Mapping rangeland health indicators in eastern Africa from 2000 to 2022
Instituto de Estadística, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Steven W. Wilcox
Department of Applied Economics, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
Patrick E. Clark
Northwest Watershed Research Center, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Boise, ID, USA
Francesco P. Fava
Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Università Degli Studi Di Milano, Milan, Italy
Nathaniel D. Jensen
The Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Njoki Kahiu
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA
Chuan Liao
Department of Global Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Benjamin Porter
Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
Ying Sun
School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Christopher B. Barrett
Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Landsat-derived rangeland condition indicators in East Africa from 2000 to 2022 Gerardo E. Soto et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7106166
Short summary
This paper uses machine learning and linear unmixing to produce rangeland health indicators: Landsat time series of land cover classes and vegetation fractional cover of photosynthetic vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation, and bare ground in arid and semi-arid Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia. This represents the first multi-decadal Landsat-resolution dataset specifically designed for mapping and monitoring rangeland health in the arid and semi-arid rangelands of this portion of eastern Africa.
This paper uses machine learning and linear unmixing to produce rangeland health indicators:...
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