Pedro Cabral

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology · School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering

Globally, land use change has consistently resulted in greater losses than gains in aboveground biomass (AGB). Forest fragmentation is a primary driver of biodiversity loss and the depletion of natural capital. Measuring landscape characteristics and analyzing changes in forest landscape patterns are essential for accounting for the contributions o...

Mapping the production of Ecosystem Services (ES) is imperative for sustainable ecosystem management. Likewise, incorporating expert knowledge enhances ES research. Here, we calculate eight multi-temporal ES indicators for mainland Portugal using a spatial modelling approach. These indicators are then integrated into the novel ASEBIO index—Assessme...

The causal relationship between vegetation and temperature serves as a driving factor for global warming in the climate system. However, causal relationships are typically characterized by complex facets, particularly within natural systems, necessitating the ongoing development of robust approaches capable of addressing the challenges inherent in...

The critical role of inland Green-Blue Ecosystems (GBE) in delivering goods and services underscores the need to understand their relationships. This research investigates the impact of climate variables on GBE stock accounts by estimating Tree Cover Density (TCD) and Water & Wetness Probability Index (WWPI). Using supervised machine learning and f...

Recent advancements in deep learning have spurred the development of numerous novel semantic segmentation models for land cover mapping, showcasing exceptional performance in delineating precise boundaries and producing highly accurate land cover maps. However, to date, no systematic literature review has comprehensively examined semantic segmentat...

Recent advancements in deep learning have spurred the development of numerous novel semantic segmentation models for land cover mapping, showcasing exceptional performance in delineating precise boundaries and producing highly accurate land cover maps. However, to date, no systematic literature review has comprehensively examined semantic segmentat...

Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) reflects the important role that natural ecosystems play in reducing the likelihood, severity, and impact of environmental disasters such as landslides. However, landslide risk assessments often lack explicit references to Eco-DRR and unified frameworks, notably for its Landslide Susceptibility Asse...

Landscape changes driven by anthropogenic activities often have negative impacts on ecosystems, jeopardizing the provision of vital services that sustain biotic elements and wildlife. Predicting the effects of such transformations is crucial for developing strategies to mitigate ecological damage. This study explores the interaction of land use cha...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to model a process for moving toward sustainable ecosystem service decisions in a Coastal Biodiversity and discuss the directions of the process for decision-makers to apply in ocean ecosystem services. Design/methodology/approach After the development of theoretical approaches to understand their prospects for...

Satellite-based Machine Learning (ML) modelling has emerged as a powerful tool to understand and quantify spatial relationships between landscape dynamics, biophysical variables and natural stocks. Ecosystem Services indicators (ESi) provide qualitative and quantitative information aiding the assessment of ecosystems' status. Through a systematic m...

In southern Portugal, artisanal octopus fisheries play an important socioeconomic role. Live crab bait in traps was used up to 2010 and banned in 2012. Such regulation, based on co-management advice, was not established under a scientific fundament. As a result, a long-standing controversy ensued with some fishing associations claiming that live cr...

Volunteered Geographic Information is a form of user-generated content, organized in applications and online platforms which compile information about recreational uses. These data are mostly freely available and seen as alternatives to trail inventories and visitor surveys. VGI is useful in studies on informal trail networks to assess visitor-rela...

Many freely available Digital Elevation Models (DEM) have increasingly been used worldwide due to the difficulty in acquiring accurate elevation data in some regions, emphasizing the need to investigate their accuracy and the factors that may influence their uncertainties. We performed an accuracy analysis of the Topodata DEM in the hydrographic re...

Studies on how cities are affected by urban heat islands (UHI) are critical nowadays for a better understanding of the connected effects and for providing helpful insights for sustainable city development planning. In this study, Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper (TM), Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper+ (ETM+), and Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI)...

Crocodilians are a taxonomic group of large predators with important ecological and evolutionary benefits for ecosystem functioning in the face of global change. Anthropogenic actions affect negatively crocodilians’ survival and more than half of the species are threatened with extinction worldwide. Here, we map and explore three dimensions of croc...

Nautical charts are critical for safe navigation as long as they remain updated and trustworthy for the reality they depict. The increase in marine traffic and the growth of available data require that the process of assessing nautical chart adequacy, which consists of comparing information from a new survey with the one published in the ruling car...

The landscape is a complex mosaic of physical and biological patches with infrastructures, cultivable lands, protected ecosystems, water bodies, and many other landforms. Varying land-use changes are vulnerable to the world and need the mitigation and management of landforms to achieve sustainable development, which without proper oversight, may le...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are platforms that have been increasingly used over the last decade to collect data for forest insect pest and disease (FIPD) monitoring. These machines provide flexibility, cost efficiency, and a high temporal and spatial resolution of remotely sensed data. The purpose of this review is to summarize recent contribut...

Land-use changes adversely may impact ecological entities and humans by affecting the water cycle, environmental changes, and energy balance at global and regional scales. Like many megaregions in fast emerging countries, Tamil Nadu, one of the largest states and most urbanized (49%) and industrial hubs in India, has experienced extensive landuse a...

Employees with data literacy skills have become highly valuable in today’s economy and labor market. More than ever before, employers demand some degree of data literacy from all employees, regardless of their professional role. New technologies offer many exciting possibilities, but there is no point in having increasingly quantities of data if no...

Globally, mangrove forests are substantially declining, and a globally synthesized database containing the drivers of deforestation and drivers’ interactions is scarce. Here, we synthesized the key social-ecological drivers of global mangrove deforestation by reviewing about two hundred published scientific studies over the last four decades (from...

Globally mangrove forests are substantially declining and a globally synthesized database of the drivers of deforestation and drivers’ interaction is scarce. Here we synthesized the key social-ecological drivers of global mangrove deforestation by reviewing about two hundred published scientific studies over the last four decades (from 1980 to 2021...

Digital elevation models (DEMs) provide important support to research since these data are freely available for almost all areas of the terrestrial surface. Thus, it is important to assess their accuracy for correct applicability regarding the correct use scale. Therefore, this paper aims to assess the vertical accuracy of ALOS PALSAR, GMTED2010, S...

The assessment of carbon dynamics as a climate-regulation ecosystem service (ES) by modeling of scenarios on land use and land cover (LULC) changes is widely used in environmental conservation studies to support public policies. However, ES studies at local scales that address the subject from the perspective of farm property are rare. In this pape...

Assessing carbon storage and sequestration is key for defining effective conservation actions to mitigate climate change. Forest species changes have direct impacts on carbon stocks and may lead to undesirable climate trade‐offs. In this paper, we measure aboveground biomass (AGB) and the impact of forest changes on climate regulation through three...

One key strategy to publicise the benefits of nature more effectively to people is to correlate indicators of human well-being with conservation needs. Turtles are important and publicly visible ecological indicator groups. We use continental turtles as flagship umbrella species in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest hotspot to design a conservation stra...

The concept of Ecosystem Services (ES) defines the nature benefits in an anthropocentric way for sustainable development goals. However, a conservation dilemma arises from the question of how much the ES cost and which ES should be prioritized in effective landscape planning. Thus, we test how the balance of economic and ecological values can be us...

The decline of voter turnout in Portugal was confirmed in the legislative election of 2015. The unquestionable democratic value associated with the act of voting, leads to the discussion of this issue, and emphasizes the need for additional investigation. Particularly, it is crucial to identify the characteristics of citizens who vote, to better un...

In Mozambique (South-eastern Africa), Phaseolus vulgaris and Vigna spp. are important staple foods and a major source of dietary protein for local populations, particularly for people living in rural areas who lack the financial capacity to include meat in their daily dietary options. This study focuses on the potential for improving diets with loc...

Terrestrial carbon stock estimates information has significant importance in planning decisions for global warming and climate change mitigation. This study aimed to estimate and analyze carbon stock changes in Kenya as consequence of land cover change (LCC) using free open data to provide affordable and timely information. Using Random Forest (RF)...

The spatially explicit assessment of freshwater is key to introduce the ecosystem services (ES) concept into decision-making processes. Many tools are being developed to model water balance and to analyze the effects of meteorological conditions on water ES behaviors at multiple spatial scales. The current study uses the InVEST Annual Water Yield M...

Understanding where ecosystem services (ES) are and quantifying their supply using stakeholderś information is key for effective sustainable management. This paper describes a participatory methodology for extracting stakeholders’ ES perception for continental Portugal based on land cover using analytical hierarchy process (AHP), matrix-based appro...

As urbanization and agriculture increase worldwide, habitats and food sources for wild pollinators are often fragmented or destroyed. As wild pollinators contribute both resilience and variety to agricultural fields, it is desirable to implement land management practices that preserve their well-being and ability to contribute to food production sy...

Soils provide important regulating ecosystem services and have crucial implications for human well-being and environmental conservation. However, soil degradation and particularly soil erosion jeopardize the maintenance and existence of these services. This study explores the spatio–temporal relationships of soil erosion to understand the distribut...

The Ecosystem Service (ES) concept needs to be expressed and communicated effectively to be successfully integrated into decision-making. In this paper, we conducted a review of relevant documents to Mozambique’s spatial planning by performing a content analysis based on ES categories. Results revealed that of the seven Land Use Planning (LUP) docu...

Soils provide important regulating ecosystem services and have crucial implications for human well-being and environmental conservation. However, soil degradation and particularly soil erosion jeopardize the maintenance and existence of these services. This study explores the spatio-temporal relationships of soil erosion to understand the distribut...

The spatially explicit assessment of freshwater is key to introduce the ecosystem service (ES) concept into decision-making processes. Many tools are being developed to model water balance and to analyse the effects of meteorological conditions on water ES behaviours at multiple spatial scales. Nevertheless, there is a lack of studies that analyse...

Accelerated land use change is a current challenge for environmental management worldwide. Given the urgent need to incorporate economic and ecological goals in landscape planning, cost-effective conservation strategies are required. In this study, we validated the benefit of fusing imagery from multiple sensors to assess the impact of landscape ch...

The water crisis is one of the biggest human problems in developing countries, especially in semi-arid regions where it can form an obstacle to irrigation and cultivation, cattle raising and people's survival. The construction of small dams/reservoirs are a possible solution to remediate this problem. These infrastructures must be located in suitab...

Citation: Charrua, A.B.; Padmanaban, R.; Cabral, P.; Bandeira, S.; Romeiras, M.M. Impacts of the Tropical Cyclone Idai in Mozambique: A Multi-Temporal Landsat Satellite Imagery Analysis. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 201. https://doi.

In agricultural production, there is a change in the properties of soils and the problem of land degradation is rising. It is especially important for Iraq, whose economic well-being is in oil and agriculture. The objects of authors’ study are the territories of Central Iraq; the subject of authors’ research is the temporary-territorial variability...

Land use and land cover (LULC) under improper land management is a major challenge in sub-Saharan Africa and has drastically affected ecological security. Addressing environmental impacts related to this challenge requires efficient planning strategies based on the measured information of land use patterns. This study assessed the ecological risk i...

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the main drivers of the sharing economy through an exhaustive weighting and meta-analysis of previous relevant quantitative research articles, obtained using a systematic literature review methodology. The authors analysed 22 quantitative studies from 2008 through. Out of the 249 extracted relationships (i...

Forest fires are a natural phenomenon which might have severe implications on natural and anthropogenic ecosystems. Future projections predict that, under a climate change environment, the fire season would be lengthier with higher levels of droughts, leading to higher fire severity. The main aim of this paper is to perform a spatiotemporal analysi...

Background: Assessing carbon storage and sequestration is key for defining effective conservation actions to mitigate climate change. Forest species changes have direct impacts on carbon stocks and may lead to undesirable climate trade-offs. In this paper, we measure aboveground biomass (AGB) and the impact of forest changes on climate regulation t...

Accessibility of urban residents to different services and amenities is a growing concern for policy makers. Urban green spaces (UGS) provide services and benefits that are particularly important for people having less mobility, such as children, the elderly or the poor. Practical experience has led to the classification of UGS in hierarchic system...

The concept of ecosystem services defines nature in an anthropocentric term. Beyond the anthropocentrism, the monetization of ecosystem services has been proposed as a practical pathway to support decision-making in environmental planning. In this context, the economic valuation of ecosystem services is key for applying conservation decisions at na...

Ecological connectivity depends on key elements within the landscape, which can support ecological fluxes, species richness and long-term viability of a biological community. Landscape planning requires clear aims and quantitative approaches to identify which key elements can reinforce the spatial coherence of protected areas design. We aim to expl...

Ecosystem services are the ecological benefits provided by nature with a direct impact on human well-being. A multifaceted framework of ecological modelling is key to assess ecosystem services in changing landscapes. Although ecosystem targets have been considered integral to the sustainable development agenda, their potential to improve human well...

The importance of access to spatial data for development and resource management is widely acknowledged worldwide. Unrestricted, reliable and efficient access to accurate, timely, and up-to-date spatial data may be achieved through a spatial data infrastructure. Thus, most developed countries implemented and continue to develop their spatial data i...

A detailed overview of ecosystem services studies can be very useful for evaluating the knowledge status of a wide range of ecological benefits for human well-being. Given the increasing research attention in recent years, we aimed to assess the scientific contribution of ecosystem services research in Portugal, using a systematic review approach....

Carbon sequestration is a climate regulation Ecosystem Service (ES) from which ecological functions and human wellbeing depend on. Aiming the carbon dioxide (CO2) mitigation, the Portuguese government created plans and strategies to accomplish the 2030 national environmental goals under international directives. Some of these impact Land Use and La...

Soils provide relevant ecosystem functions, important to the preservation of mankind. However, soil degradation, and particularly soil erosion, is endangering the maintenance and existence of these services. This study aims to analyze the spatiotemporal distribution of soil erosion by understanding the spatial patterns of the sediment retention in...

The growth of cities’ population increased the interest in the opportunities and challenges that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have on carbon footprint reduction, which fosters their environmental sustainability. Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), six ICT-related variables from European Union (EU) cities were combined into a...

Youth pregnancy, a global public health problem with important social, educational and economic impact, has mostly been studied in the least developed countries. However, this condition also affects the industrialized countries. This article presents a youth pregnancy study at the municipality level in continental Portugal based on geographically w...

Актуальность исследования обусловлена необходимостью получения объективной, в т. ч. ретроспективной, информации о состоянии ценных лесных массивов, являющихся ботаническими памятниками природы, для организации их охраны от пожаров, болезней и вредителей. Цель: мониторинг состояния припоселковых кедровников на примере Томской области с использование...