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- Land–Climate Interactions Section
- Landscape Archaeology Section
- Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing Section
- Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment Section
- Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning Section
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Section Board for 'Land Systems and Global Change' (41)
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Interests: land cover; land use; remote sensing; mapping; modeling
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Special Issue in Remote Sensing: Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS Integration in Natural Resources and Environmental Science
Special Issue in Land: Advances in Remote Sensing for Crop Monitoring and Yield Estimation
Special Issue in Land: Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS Integration in Natural Resources and Environmental Science
Special Issue in Land: Feature Papers for Land Systems and Global Change Section
Special Issue in Land: Land: 10th Anniversary
Special Issue in Land: Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Land (ICEL2022)
Special Issue in Land: National Parks and Protected Areas
Interests: land use/land cover change; agricultural frontiers; Amazon; climate change; agrosystems; forest dynamics; remote sensing
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Interests: geographic information science; urban land use planning; spatial decision support systems; participatory mapping; geodiversity
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Interests: vegetation-atmosphere-land interactions; ecohydrology; landuse and landcover change; landscape development processes; systems modelling; remote sensing; machine learning

Interests: tropical ecology; conservation; palaeoclimate; palaeoecology; fire ecology; modelling; management; sustainability
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Interests: land use science; land use and land cover change; deforestation; land use modelling; natural resources conservation policies; food security; socio-ecological system; sustainability

Interests: sustainability science; , socio-ecological systems; systems thinking; ecosystem services; food system sustainability
Interests: earth observation; land change; volunteered geographical information; disaster management; remote sensing

Interests: land use; modeling; econometrics; conservation

Interests: arid zones ecology; conservation biodiversity; ecosystem functions and services; remote sensing; translational ecology
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Interests: land change modeling; urban analytics
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Interests: land system science; vulnerability science; cultural and political ecology; urban social-ecological systems, agribiodiversity, food and farming systems; institutional dimensions of environmental change; landscape and conservation ecology

Interests: spatial analysis; geocomputation; GIS; land cover; land use; spatial data analytics
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Special Issue in Sensors: Spatial Analysis and Remote Sensing
Special Issue in Sustainability: Spatial Statistics and Ecological and Environmental Sustainability
Special Issue in Land: Land Use Optimisation

Interests: globalization; land-use change; commodity value chains; corporate social responsibility
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Interests: past land-use and land-cover change; past climate-land interactions; holocene; palaeoecology; globe; past anthropogenic land-cover change; land-use as climate forcing
Interests: land use change; Latin America; Andes; subtropical Argentina; Chaco; Puna; forest dynamics; exotic species invasions; forest transition; land cover change - development relationships
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Interests: historical land use modeling/reconstructions
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Special Issue in Land: The Impact of Land Use on Atmospheric Environment
Interests: land-use change; land-cover change; drivers of land-use/cover changes; telecouplings; livelihood changes and land-use transitions; GIS; Remote Sensing
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Interests: remote sensing; UAV; land cover; land use; sustainability; agriculture; land use; land change; energy; engineering; water
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Special Issue in Energies: Urban Generation of Renewable Energy and Energy Saving in Cities
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability in Mediterranean Climate
Special Issue in Coatings: Surfaces and Interfaces for Renewable Energy
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Saving at Cities
Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Bibliometric Studies and Worldwide Research Trends on Global Health
Special Issue in Agronomy: Worldwide Trends in Agronomy Research: Bibliometric Studies
Special Issue in Inventions: Low-Cost Inventions and Patents
Special Issue in Land: Phoenician, Greek and Roman Colonization of the Mediterranean Basin and the Origin of Commercial Agriculture
Special Issue in Agronomy: Worldwide Trends in Agronomy Research: Bibliometric Studies – Series II
Special Issue in Inventions: Low-Cost Inventions and Patents: Series II

Interests: carbon measurement; agroforestry; REDD+; developing countries; low carbon land management
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Interests: peatland restoration; agroforestry and livelihoods
Interests: agent-based modelling; landscape ecology; land use/cover change modelling; coupled human and natural systems
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Interests: impacts of climate variability and change on ecosystems; land-cover land-use change; remote sensing; GIS
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Interests: vegetation remote sensing; agricultural remote sensing; climate change; carbon cycle
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Interests: pyrogeography; remote sensing; burned area mapping; anthropogenic fire

Interests: land change modeling; soundscape ecology; landscape ecology

Interests: error assessment; land change science; simulation modeling; spatial analysis; statistics; uncertainty
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Interests: climate change / global change and impacts on environment and ecosystem services; scenario development and -analysis; simulation of land-use dynamics; mapping and evaluation of (cultural) ecosystem services

Interests: ecological biogeography; plant biogeography; mountain ecotones; geospatial technologies; biogeomorphology
Interests: land use and cover dynamics; changing rural-urban forms/territorial shapes (focus: in particular touristic-vocated areas and those vocated for high quality typical cultivations); landscape change and environmental implications; route-based based tourism/heritage valorization practices and sustainability; agriculture; cartography and GIS

Interests: coupled human–natural systems; land change science; unmanned aerial vehicles; carbon cycle; erosion; agent-based modelling; landscape ecology
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Interests: tropical deforestation; land use and land cover change
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Interests: land use change; integrated land use systems; geography of mountainous regions; natural resources management with a focus on forest and water resources
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Interests: land change science; remote sensing of land cover; climate variability; human-environmental interaction; people and parks: social-ecological system resilience
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Interests: sustainable land management; land use and land cover analysis; land degradation; climate variability and climate change adaptation and mitigation; ecosystem services / natural resources; agricultural landscapes / agro-ecology; social-ecological resilience; environmental performance; environmental stewardship / environmental policy; conceptual and methodological development
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Interests: soil; pedology; applied pedology; geospatial decision; support systems

Interests: landscape ecology; land systems; global change; biodiversity conservation; human-environment interactions
Interests: landscape ecology; ecological modeling; geospatial analysis
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Interests: remote sensing imagery recognition; 3D modeling and reconstruction; deep learning
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Interests: remote sensing; phenology; land cover and land use change; urban
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2. Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, 2181 Samuel J. LeFrak Hall, 7251 Preinkert Drive, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: land system science; land tenure, land use, and resource rights; large-scale land acquisitions; telecoupling; land governance; political ecology; knowledge co-production