Water quality is a cornerstone of aquatic ecosystem health, with implications that extend from local water management to global environmental policy. Recent technological advances have markedly ...

The consequences of climate change are evidenced, inter alia, by changes in biodiversity. A key task of biodiversity research is to record the current situation, study processes within ecosystems and ...

Remote sensing has made it easier for scientists to monitor rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. Will it help us be smarter about how we manage them? The Congo River is the world’s second-largest river ...

Using remote sensing to keep an eye on the trees offers an effective way to monitor groundwater along river corridors in the Southwest Spend time in any of the world’s great forests and you’ll start ...

Productivity and stability of forest ecosystems strongly depend on the functional diversity of plant communities. Researchers have developed a new method to measure and map functional diversity of ...

Primary forests, or old-growth forests as they are sometimes called, are epicenters of rich biodiversity, are more resilient ...

The most common and accepted definition of permafrost refers to the thermal conditions of the subsurface earth. Permafrost is defined as soil, rock, and any other subsurface earth material that exists ...

A new study published in the Journal of Remote Sensing demonstrates a practical advance in satellite-based soil moisture ...