• A comparison between support vector machine and water Cloud model for estimating crop leaf area index 

      Hosseini, Mehdi; McNairn, Heather; Mitchell, Scott; Robertson, Laura Dingle; Davidson, Andrew; Ahmadian, Nima; Bhattacharya, Avik; Borg, Erik; Conrad, Christopher; Dabrowska Zielinska, Katarzyna; De Abelleyra, Diego; Gurdak, Radoslaw; Kumar, Vineet; Kussul, Nataliia; Mandal, Dipankar; Rao, Y.S.; Saliendra, Nicanor; Shelestov, Andrii; Spengler, Daniel; Veron, Santiago Ramón; Homayouni, Saeid; Becker Reshef, Inbal (MDPI, 2021-04-01)
      The water cloud model (WCM) can be inverted to estimate leaf area index (LAI) using the intensity of backscatter from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors. Published studies have demonstrated that the WCM can accurately ...
    • Agrohydrological analysis of groundwater recharge and land use changes in the Pampas of Argentina 

      Kroes, Joop; van Dam, Jos; Supit, Iwan; De Abelleyra, Diego; Veron, Santiago Ramón; de Wit, Allard; Boogaard, Hendrik; Angelini, Marcos Esteban; Damiano, Francisco; Groenendijk, Piet; Wesseling, Jan; Veldhuizen, Ab (Elsevier, 2019-03)
      This paper studies the changes of groundwater, climate and land use in the Pampas of Argentina. These changes offer opportunities and threats. Lowering groundwater without irrigation causes drought and successive crop and ...
    • An insight into the patterns and controls of the structure of South American Chaco woodlands 

      Ferraina, Antonella; Baldi, German; De Abelleyra, Diego; Grosfeld, Javier; Veron, Santiago Ramón (Wiley, 2022)
      Logging, grazing, wood extraction, and anthropogenic fires are pervasive throughout the subtropical dry vegetation of South America leading to changes in woodlands structure and ultimately its degradation. The Chac ohaco ...
    • Building a Data Set over 12 Globally Distributed Sites to Support the Development of Agriculture Monitoring Applications with Sentinel-2 

      Bontemps, Sophie; Arias, Marcela; Cara, Cosmin; Dedieu, Gérard; Guzzonato, Eric; Hagolle, Olivier; Inglada, Jordi; Matton, Nicolas; Morin, David; Popescu, Ramona; Rabaute, Thierry; Savinaud, Mickael; Sepulcre, Guadalupe; Valero, Silvia; Ahmad, Ijaz; Bégué, Agnès; Wu, Bingfang; De Abelleyra, Diego; Diarra, Alhousseine; Dupuy, Stéphane; French, Andrew; Akhtar, Ibrar ul Hassan; Kussul, Nataliia; Lebourgeois, Valentine; Le Page, Michel; Newby, Terrence; Savin, Igor; Veron, Santiago Ramón; Koetz, Benjamin; Defourny, Pierre (MDPI, 2015-12)
      Developing better agricultural monitoring capabilities based on Earth Observation data is critical for strengthening food production information and market transparency. The Sentinel-2 mission has the optimal capacity for ...
    • Crop rotations in the Rolling Pampas: characterization, spatial pattern and its potential controls 

      De Abelleyra, Diego; Veron, Santiago Ramón (Elsevier, 2020-04-30)
      One of the most important decisions made by farmers every year involves land allocation to different crops. Accurate information on crop sequences over large areas is a key prerequisite to address social concerns as soybean ...
    • Differential sensitivities of electricity consumption to global warming across regions of Argentina 

      Propato, Tamara Sofia; De Abelleyra, Diego; Semmartin, María Gisela; Veron, Santiago Ramón (Springer, 2021-05-27)
      The description of the relationship between temperature (T) and electricity consumption (EC) is key to improving our understanding of a potential climate change amplification feedback and, thus, energy planning. We sought ...
    • First Large Extent and High Resolution Cropland and Crop Type Map of Argentina 

      De Abelleyra, Diego; Veron, Santiago Ramón; Banchero, Santiago; Mosciaro, Maria Jesus; Propato, Tamara Sofia; Ferraina, Antonella; Gómez Taffarel, Maria Cielo; Dacunto, Luciana; Franzoni, Agustin; Volante, Jose Norberto (International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2020-03-22)
      The availability of spatially explicit information about agricultural crops for large regions in Argentina is scarce. In particular, due to temporal dynamics of agricultural production (i.e. changes in planted crops from ...
    • Impacts of precipitation and temperature on crop yields in the Pampas 

      Veron, Santiago Ramón; De Abelleyra, Diego; Lobell, David B. (2015-05)
      Understanding regional impacts of recent climate trends can help anticipate how further climate change will affect agricultural productivity. We here used panel models to estimate the contribution of growing season ...
    • Recent Land Use and Land Cover Change Dynamics in the Gran Chaco Americano 

      Banchero, Santiago; De Abelleyra, Diego; Veron, Santiago Ramón; Mosciaro, Maria Jesus; Arévalos, Fabiana; Volante, Jose Norberto (International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2020-03-22)
      Land transformation is one of the most significant human changes on the Earth’s surface processes. Therefore, land use land cover time series are a key input for environmental monitoring, natural resources management, ...
    • Remote sensing and cropping practices: a review 

      Bégue, Agnes; Arvor, Damian; Bellon, Beatriz; Betbeder, Julie; De Abelleyra, Diego; Ferraz, Rodrigo; Lebourgeois, Valentine; Lelong, Camille; Simoes, Margareth; Veron, Santiago Ramón (2018)
      For agronomic, environmental, and economic reasons, the need for spatialized information about agricultural practices is expected to rapidly increase. In this context, we reviewed the literature on remote sensing for mapping ...
    • Spatially variable hidrologic impact and biomass production tradeoffs associated with Eucaliptus ( E. Grandis) cultivation for biofuel production in Entre Ríos, Argentina 

      Heidari, Azad; Watkins Jr, David; Mayer, Alex; Propato, Tamara Sofia; Veron, Santiago Ramón; De Abelleyra, Diego (Wiley, 2021-01-11)
      Climate change and energy security promote using renewable sources of energy such as biofuels. High woody biomass production achieved from short-rotation intensive plantations is a strategy that is increasing in many parts ...
    • Towards a set of agrosystem-specific cropland mapping methods to address the global cropland diversity 

      Waldner, François; De Abelleyra, Diego; Veron, Santiago Ramón; Zhang, Miao; Wu, Bingfang; Plotnikov, Dmitry; Bartalev, Sergey; Lavreniuk, Mykola; Skakun, Sergii; Kussul, Nataliia; Le Maire, Guerric; Dupuy, Stéphane; Jarvis, Ian; Defourny, Pierre (Informa UK Limited, 2016)
      Accurate cropland information is of paramount importance for crop monitoring. This study compares five existing cropland mapping methodologies over five contrasting Joint Experiment for Crop Assessment and Monitoring (JECAM) ...
    • Two decades of land cover mapping in the Rio de la Plata grassland region: The mapBiomas Pampa initiative 

      Baeza, Santiago; Velez-Martín, E.; De Abelleyra, Diego; Banchero, Santiago; Gallego, Federico; Schirmbeck, J.; Veron, Santiago Ramón; Vallejos, M.; Weber, E.; Oyarzabal, Mariano; Barbieri, A.; Petek, Mariana; Guerra Lara, M.; Sarrailhe, Sofía S.; Baldi, Germán; Bagnato, C.; Bruzzone, L.; Ramos, S.; Hasenack, H. (Elsevier, 2022-09-08)
      The Río de la Plata Grasslands (RPG) region is the largest area of the temperate humid and subhumid grasslands biome in South America and one of the largest in the world. The region is located on fertile soils, generally ...