Here we focus on monitoring "within-state," gradual changes in vegetation in contrast with traditional monitoring of "abrupt" land-cover conversions.
Although the earlier abrupt land use changes have now stabilized, many uncertainties still exist such as the effects of climate change, recent mine spills from a private company operating nearby, and excessive and unexplained mortalities of fauna in the recent past.
We also tested expanding this method for other landforms diagnostic of similarly abrupt land-surface changes, including lava fields, dunes, and landslides, as well as investigating the influence of different roughness thresholds, resolutions of kernels, and input data resolution, and comparing our method with previously published roughness algorithms.
The big question is whether the Chinese government could increase the fiscal stimulus by an order of magnitude larger than the current effort if an abrupt hard landing were to occur.
So was the unquestioned expertise of the pilot, Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, who rightly so has become a national hero, co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles, and their crew for how they handled the abrupt and unusual landing and evacuation.
Mining regions undergo abrupt and extensive land use change, the impacts of which pose management challenges for mining companies and regulatory agencies.
Paleoenvironmental studies of a core from an adjacent lake indicate a local and abrupt decrease in land use activities at the onset of the Late Classic period.
In this interview, Coandă said that he brought the aircraft back to earth under control, but the landing was "abrupt" and he was thrown clear of the airframe which was consumed completely by flame, the engine reduced to "a few handfuls of white powder".
With a later abrupt increase in aridity, agricultural land-use decreased from ∼ 8 to ∼ 3.6 ka BP, when the area appears to have been almost deserted.
