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ArticleEarth surface processes and landforms2021

UAV RGB, thermal infrared and multispectral imagery used to investigate the control of terrain on the spatial distribution of dryland biocrust.

Javier Blanco-Sacristán, Cinzia Panigada, Rodolfo Gentili, Giulia Tagliabue, Roberto Garzonio, M Pilar Martín, Mónica Ladrón de Guevara, Roberto Colombo, Thomas P F Dowling, Micol Rossini

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Article in Earth surface processes and landforms, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Javier Blanco-SacristánRemote Sensing of Environmental Dynamics Lab University of Milano-Bicocca Milan Italy.
Cinzia PanigadaRemote Sensing of Environmental Dynamics Lab University of Milano-Bicocca Milan Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3745-8037
Rodolfo GentiliRemote Sensing of Environmental Dynamics Lab University of Milano-Bicocca Milan Italy.
Giulia TagliabueRemote Sensing of Environmental Dynamics Lab University of Milano-Bicocca Milan Italy.
Roberto GarzonioRemote Sensing of Environmental Dynamics Lab University of Milano-Bicocca Milan Italy.
M Pilar MartínEnvironmental remote sensing and spectroscopy laboratory (SpecLab) Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Madrid Spain.
Mónica Ladrón de GuevaraUniversidad Rey Juan Carlos Móstoles Spain.
Roberto ColomboRemote Sensing of Environmental Dynamics Lab University of Milano-Bicocca Milan Italy.
Thomas P F DowlingUnited Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre Cambridge UK.
Micol RossiniRemote Sensing of Environmental Dynamics Lab University of Milano-Bicocca Milan Italy.

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Abstract

Biocrusts (topsoil communities formed by mosses, lichens, bacteria, fungi, algae, and cyanobacteria) are a key biotic component of dryland ecosystems. Whilst climate patterns control the distribution of biocrusts in drylands worldwide, terrain and soil attributes can influence biocrust distribution at landscape scale. Multi-source unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery was used to map and study biocrust ecology in a typical dryland ecosystem in central Spain. Red, green and blue (RGB) imagery was processed using structure-from-motion techniques to map terrain attributes related to microclimate and terrain stability. Multispectral imagery was used to produce accurate maps (accuracy > 80%) of dryland ecosystem components (vegetation, bare soil and biocrust composition). Finally, thermal infrared (TIR) and multispectral imagery was used to calculate the apparent thermal inertia (ATI) of soil and to evaluate how ATI was related to soil moisture (

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apparent inertiabiocrustsbiological soil crustsdrylandslichenmossmultispectralthermalUAV

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