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Impact Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Karez in Turpan Basin of China

Remote Sensing, 2023
Karez systems are ancient hydraulic works that use underground waterways to divert water by gravity and have historically been popular in arid regions across Central Asia.
Qian Li, Huadong Guo, Lei Luo, Xinyuan Wang, Shu Yang   +4 more
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The MPA Guide: A framework to achieve global goals for the ocean

Science, 2021
Description Consistency in conservation Marine protected areas (MPAs) are now well established globally as tools for conservation, for enhancing marine biodiversity, and for promoting sustainable fisheries.
K. Grorud‐Colvert, Jenna Sullivan-Stack, C. Roberts, Vanessa Constant, B. Horta e Costa, Elizabeth P. Pike, N. Kingston, D. Laffoley, E. Sala, J. Claudet, A. Friedlander, D. Gill, S. Lester, J. Day, E. Gonçalves, G. Ahmadia, Matt Rand, Angelo Villagomez, Natalie Ban, G. Gurney, A. Spalding, N. Bennett, J. Briggs, L. Morgan, R. Moffitt, M. Deguignet, E. K. Pikitch, E. Darling, S. Jessen, Sarah O. Hameed, G. Di Carlo, P. Guidetti, J. Harris, J. Torre, Zafer Kizilkaya, T. Agardy, P. Cury, N. Shah, K. Sack, Ling Cao, Miriam Fernandez, J. Lubchenco   +41 more
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MSFTrans: a multi-task frequency-spatial learning transformer for building extraction from high spatial resolution remote sensing images

GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2022
Building extraction is significant in urban planning, economic evaluation, and driverless technology development. However, automatic building extraction from high spatial resolution remote sensing images has been a challenging task due to the various ...
Bo Yu, Fang Chen, Ning Wang, Lu Yang, Haiping Yang, Lei Wang   +5 more
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United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education, 2020
The article attempts to define issues related to sustainable development (SD) in the context of the mining industry. the purpose of this publication is to analyze the implementation of sustainable development goals by mining companies in Poland ...
Adam Scarf
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 2020
This chapter examines the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and addresses the importance of water within each of the goals. The fundamental concept of sustainable development is discussed within the growing uncertainties of climate change and global ...
L. McCarton, S. O’Hogain, A. Reid
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Assessing the Accuracy and Consistency of Six Fine-Resolution Global Land Cover Products Using a Novel Stratified Random Sampling Validation Dataset

Remote Sensing, 2023
Over the past decades, benefiting from the development of computing capacity and the free access to Landsat and Sentinel imagery, several fine-resolution global land cover (GLC) products (with a resolution of 10 m or 30 m) have been developed ...
Tingting Zhao, Xiao Zhang, Yuan Gao, Jun Mi, Wendi Liu, Jinqing Wang, Mihang Jiang, Liangyun Liu   +7 more
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Higher education and the Sustainable Development Goals

Higher Education, 2020
This special issue of Higher Education focuses on higher education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 SDGs adopted by all United Nations member states in 2015 cover a broad range of issues related to socio-economic, environmental and ...
M. Chankseliani, T. McCowan
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Intersection of Heritage, Water, and the Work of the ICOMOS Sustainable Development Goals Working Group

Blue Papers, 2023
The Sustainable Development Goals Working Group (SDGWG) of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) advocates for heritage by publishing reports, attending conferences and engaging in networking.
Gabriel Caballero, Bretony Colvile, Elena Perez-Alvaro, Saranya Dharshini   +3 more
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Mapping the Sustainable Development Goals Relationships

Sustainability, 2020
Sustainable development addresses humanity’s aspiration for a better life while observing the limitations imposed by nature. In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly approved the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the aim to foster the ...
L. Fonseca, Jose Pedro Teixeira Domingues, A. Dima   +2 more
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High-Resolution Mapping of Forest Parameters in Tropical Rainforests Through AutoML Integration of GEDI With Sentinel-1/2, Landsat 8, and ALOS-2 Data

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Forests are vital carbon sinks, with tree height and biomass critical for carbon research. NASA's GEDI spaceborne LiDAR enhances vegetation monitoring through 3D structure analysis.
Bo Zhang, Li Zhang, Min Yan, Jian Zuo, Yuqi Dong, Bowei Chen   +5 more
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