A Multi-Temporal Object-Based Image Analysis to Detect Long-Lived Shrub Cover Changes in Drylands

E.G. and D.A-S. received support from the European LIFE Project ADAPTAMED LIFE14 CCA/ES/000612, and from ERDF and the Andalusian Government under the project GLOCHARID (Global Change in Arid Zones - 852/2009/M/00). E.G. is supported by the European Research Council grant agreement no 647038 (BIODESERT). J.B.-S. received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation 514 programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 721995. D.A.-S. received support from the NASA Work Programme on Group on Earth Observations - Biodiversity Observation Network (GEOBON) under grant 80NSSC18K0446, from project ECOPOTENTIAL, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 641762, and from the Spanish Ministry of Science under project CGL2014-61610-EXP and grant JC2015-00316.

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