Editorial: Land degradation assessment with earth observation

Symeonakis, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1724-2869 (2022) Editorial: Land degradation assessment with earth observation. Remote Sensing, 14 (8). p. 1776. ISSN 2072-4292

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Abstract

For decades now, land degradation has been identified as one of the most pressing problems facing the planet. Alarming estimates are often published by the academic community and intergovernmental organisations claiming that a third of the Earth’s land surface is undergoing various degradation processes and almost half of the world’s population is already residing in degraded lands. Moreover, as land degradation directly affects vegetation biophysical processes and leads to changes in ecosystem functioning, it has a knock-on effect on habitats and, therefore, on numerous species of flora and fauna that become endangered or/and extinct.