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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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Estimating networks of sustainable development goals [PDF]

Information & Management, 2019
An increasing number of researchers and practitioners advocate for a systemicunderstanding of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through interdependency networks. Ironically, the burgeoning network-estimation literature seems neglected by this community. We provide an introduction to the most suitable estimation methods for SDG networks. Building
Ospina-Forero, L, Castañeda, G, Guerrero, OA   +2 more
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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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A cost‒benefit synergistic framework for balancing ecological importance and vulnerability in island conservation

International Journal of Digital Earth
Islands face significant challenges in prioritizing conservation areas and developing adaption policies under the dual impacts of climate change and human activities.
Jian Zuo, Li Zhang, Bowei Chen, Yingwen Hu, Bo Zhang, Syed Ahmed Raza, Shaocong Zhang, Linlin Ruan   +7 more
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Sustainable development : the key to tackling health inequalities [PDF]

, 2012
In November 2008, Professor Sir Michael Marmot was asked to advise the Secretary of State for Health on the future development of a health inequalities strategy in England post-2010.
Sustainable Development Commission
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Emerging Technologies

, 2022
This monograph investigates a multitude of emerging technologies including 3D printing, 5G, blockchain, and many more to assess their potential for use to further humanity’s shared goal of sustainable development. Through case studies detailing how these
Küfeoğlu, Sinan
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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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The Sustainable Development Goals [PDF]

, 2019
In 2015 the United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to define and coordinate global priorities and aspirations up until 2030, in response to the economic, social and environmental challenges faced by the planet. Many governments across the world signed up to these goals. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon noted at the
Wynn, Martin G, Jones, Peter
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A high temporal resolution global gridded dataset of human thermal stress metrics

Scientific Data
The human thermal stress indices and datasets are vital for promoting public health and reducing negative environmental impacts as global climate change and extreme meteorological events increase.
Hongdeng Jian, Zhenzhen Yan, Xiangtao Fan, Qin Zhan, Chen Xu, Weijia Bei, Jianhao Xu, Mingrui Huang, Xiaoping Du, Junjie Zhu, Zhimin Tai, Jiangtao Hao, Yanan Hu   +12 more
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A Network for Landslide Detection Using Large-Area Remote Sensing Images with Multiple Spatial Resolutions

Remote Sensing, 2022
Accurately detecting landslides over a large area with complex background objects is a challenging task. Research in the area suffers from three drawbacks in general.
Bo Yu, Ning Wang, Chong Xu, Fang Chen, Lei Wang   +4 more
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