The progress and potential directions in the remote sensing of farmland abandonment

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F25%3A10504144" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/25:10504144 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=zd.4j-Mya2" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=zd.4j-Mya2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.115019" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.rse.2025.115019</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The progress and potential directions in the remote sensing of farmland abandonment

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The world is facing increasing land scarcity due to growing demand for agricultural products and urban expansion. At the same time, farmland abandonment is emerging as a widespread global land-use change phenomenon. Remote sensing plays a critical role in identifying abandonment across diverse farming systems. Here, we synthesized current knowledge through a systematic literature review of 131 publications to assess progress in remote-sensing-based monitoring of farmland abandonment. Our review highlights the growing use of remote sensing techniques and the increasing utility of multisource satellite data. However, research remains primarily skewed toward publicly available optical Landsat and Sentinel-2 data, with limited integration of other sources and a lack of global-scale assessments. We propose research directions to guide future studies, focusing on underrepresented land-use types, such as grasslands, terraces, and plantations, as well as regions like Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, and South America. We emphasize the importance of diversifying data sources and integrating ancillary information, including cadastral data and historical land-use records, to better understand abandonment processes and associated vegetation changes. We advocate for multi-scale, temporally explicit analyses to improve scalability and enable the development of regional and continental products. As most studies focus on biophysical changes, future work should also consider socio-economic contexts and integrate remote-sensing-based proxies of land-use change. Finally, we recommend improving communication by clearly defining abandonment, providing visual examples, validating with diverse reference data, documenting uncertainty, and sharing data, code, and outputs.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The progress and potential directions in the remote sensing of farmland abandonment

Popis výsledku anglicky

The world is facing increasing land scarcity due to growing demand for agricultural products and urban expansion. At the same time, farmland abandonment is emerging as a widespread global land-use change phenomenon. Remote sensing plays a critical role in identifying abandonment across diverse farming systems. Here, we synthesized current knowledge through a systematic literature review of 131 publications to assess progress in remote-sensing-based monitoring of farmland abandonment. Our review highlights the growing use of remote sensing techniques and the increasing utility of multisource satellite data. However, research remains primarily skewed toward publicly available optical Landsat and Sentinel-2 data, with limited integration of other sources and a lack of global-scale assessments. We propose research directions to guide future studies, focusing on underrepresented land-use types, such as grasslands, terraces, and plantations, as well as regions like Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, and South America. We emphasize the importance of diversifying data sources and integrating ancillary information, including cadastral data and historical land-use records, to better understand abandonment processes and associated vegetation changes. We advocate for multi-scale, temporally explicit analyses to improve scalability and enable the development of regional and continental products. As most studies focus on biophysical changes, future work should also consider socio-economic contexts and integrate remote-sensing-based proxies of land-use change. Finally, we recommend improving communication by clearly defining abandonment, providing visual examples, validating with diverse reference data, documenting uncertainty, and sharing data, code, and outputs.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Remote Sensing of Environment

ISSN

0034-4257

e-ISSN

1879-0704

Svazek periodika

331

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

December

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

115019

Kód UT WoS článku

001571839000001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105015564847