Announcement: Remote Sensing of Environment, Special Issue:
➡️Development, Validation, and Application of Medium- and High-Resolution Satellite Products at Regional to Global Scales
Builds on Radeloff et al. 2024 (113918) data products review in RSE.
Details: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Old-growth forests are some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. Remote sensing works as a "time machine" to understand how these forests change -- and how these changes impact biodiversity. 🌎 @gerslab.bsky.social

today.uconn.edu/2025/02/ucon...

GERS Laboratory is featured in UConn Today with a cool video!

How unique is branch arrangement—unique enough to be like fingerprints? 🧐
Yrttimaa et al. Quantifying architectural uniqueness of Scots pine trees using terrestrial laser scanning: toward individual tree fingerprinting. Forestry. #TLS #lidar #openaccess
🔗https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpae058

New research reveals that croplands can have both warming and cooling effects on land surface temperature, depending on factors like regional climate and surrounding vegetation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mangroves are like armor to protect us from climate change -- but when faced with sea level rise and extreme weather, will these important habitats survive? That's what a team of UConn researchers is looking to find out.

today.uconn.edu/2024/11/ucon...

DECODER - expanded on the DECODE algorithm for tracking mangrove recovery (where the last letter R comes from) is developed by @xiucheng_yang. Change is never a binary thing, and we gave four mangrove conditions: healthy, disturbed, recover, & decline.

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