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Special Issue "Vegetation Cover Changes from Satellite Data"

Special Issue "Vegetation Cover Changes from Satellite Data"

Vegetation cover is the most important indicator of ecosystem transformations and landscape history on local, regional, or global scales. The vegetation is one of the easily readable objects for optical remote sensing, as an active pigment keeper. The water content and density combinations of plant shoots and tree crowns open the possibility for SAR instruments analysis. The high-accuracy measurements and time-series stability of RS data are the basis for statistically correct estimations of transformations of vegetation cover.

BBC News reported on Dr. Catherine Nakalembe 's agricultural research in Africa

BBC News reported on Dr. Catherine Nakalembe 's agricultural research in Africa

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Catherine Nakalembe is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland's Geographical Sciences department and Africa Lead for NASA Harvest program.  She served as a program assistant for LCLUC while pursuing her doctoral studies. Catherine uses satellite data to study agriculture and weather patterns. This information is combined with data gathered on the ground about the crops and their condition to build a model that learns to recognise patterns to help make predictions.