GC045 - Environmental, Socio-Economic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia
Dr. Garik Gutman recently visited Central and Eastern Europe to meet with researchers and academics in the region. He started his tour in Budapest, where the hub for regional space-related activities is located. Dr. Gutman gave talks on the water-energy-food nexus and recent NASA Earth Observation missions at several institutions in the region, which included Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Czechia and Austria. He also had an opportunity to learn about the achievements of regional experts in the field of Earth’s Remote Sensing.
Mapping tree cover is vital for monitoring deforestation, restoration and trends in global land cover change. Remote sensing makes it possible to observe forests on a global scale by analyzing imagery from satellites to detect where trees are and aren’t over time. It’s not just dense forests that are important; open canopy forests — which are common in drylands and in non-forested regions like in cities and on farms — are also important to map and monitor. However, doing so has proven challenging: Patches of trees may cover a smaller area than individual satellite pixels.
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BBC covers Inbal Becker-Reshef and NASA Harvests Team's assessment of the impact of the Kakhovka Dam breach on Ukrainian agriculture using Planet Data. One of Europe's largest reservoirs is drying up after the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine. Satellite images, analysed by BBC Verify, show four canal networks have become disconnected from the reservoir. The UN says drinking water supplies could be affected for more than 700,000 people, mostly in Russian-occupied areas.