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 ...

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 ...

Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) and the Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NIERSC) of St. Petersburg, Russia have developed a new algorithm for the retrieval of ...

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 ...

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

Sunglint occurs when sunlight reflects off the ocean at the same angle satellites observe it, producing mirror-like images while affecting ocean color measurements.

For decades, global soil moisture monitoring from space has depended on reference datasets. Satellite observations, while indispensable, are rarely used alone; instead, their retrieval algorithms are ...

SHIJIAZHUANG — Chinese researchers recently initiated remote sensing experiments for vegetation and soil moisture in Hebei province, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Aerospace Information ...