• TOWARDS FINE SCALE CHARACTERIZATION OF GLOBAL URBAN EXTENT, CHANGE AND STRUCTURE 

  Wang, Panshi (2017)

  Urbanization is a global phenomenon with far-reaching environmental impacts. Monitoring, understanding, and modeling its trends and impacts require accurate, spatially detailed and updatable information on urban extent, ...

• AGRICULTURAL LAND USE, DROUGHT IMPACTS AND VULNERABILITY: A REGIONAL CASE STUDY FOR KARAMOJA, UGANDA 

  Nakalembe, Catherine Lilian (2017)

  The increasing frequency of extreme climate events brings into question the sustainability of agriculture in marginal lands, especially those already experiencing drought such as the Karamoja region in northeastern Uganda. ...

• Towards Better Understanding of Agricultural Drought: A Comprehensive Analysis of Agricultural Drought Risk, Impact and Monitoring from Earth Observations 

  Zhang, Jie (2017)

  With a changing climate, the frequent occurrence of drought has resulted in unprecedented grain prices and severe market instability, threatening global food security. Earth observation, especially satellite-based observation, ...

• HUMAN-INDUCED VEGETATION DEGRADATION IN A SEMI-ARID RANGELAND 

  Jackson, Hasan (2017)

  Current assessments of anthropogenic land degradation and its impact on vegetation at regional scales are prone to large uncertainties due to the lack of an objective, transferable, spatially and temporally explicit measure ...

• "The voice of duty is the voice of God": The spatial manifestation of the religious duty of health in Seventh-day Adventism 

  Burtch, Nathan R. (2017)

  The Seventh-day Adventists are a millennial Christian denomination that traces its lineage to the Millerites of the mid-nineteenth century. Among the various theological differences espoused by Adventism is a predilection ...

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