Quantifying Agricultural Intensification in the US: Trends in Yield & Microwave Remote Sensing in the Midwest

Increases in crop production show increasing trends in agricultural intensification. These trends are predominant in the corn and soybean crop production of the United States' Midwest region. The increase of production and irrigation in the past 20 years is spatially diverse, with some regions in the Midwest intensifying agriculture at faster...

Monitoring land restoration projects of Justdiggit in Kenya, using downscaled passive microwave remote sensing products of VanderSat

The growing world population and climate change have resulted in increasing stress on the Earth’s ecosystems. Especially the overexploitation of agricultural land, overgrazing and extreme droughts have resulted in land degradation, often called desertification. This leads to the disappearing of natural vegetation, the loss of soil quality, lower...

Vegetation Optical Depth: its potential as an agricultural drought indicator: A case study on pepper fields in Indonesia

Droughts are a serious threat to the planet. Especially in agriculture, the consequences are devastating leading to reduced yields or crop failure with further implications for economics, politics and society. Being able to monitor and predict agricultural droughts is an important step to reduce agricultural vulnerability and secure livelihoods....