Resource Security

Urban heat stress is one of the most pressing climate risks in the Netherlands, with strong impacts on public health, infrastructure, and energy demand.

The livelihoods of many people in the East African drylands heavily depend on livestock.

Tropical lowland rainforests in Sumatra have been extensively degraded through logging and conversion to oil palm plantations, resulting in major ecological and biophysical chang

Timely and accurate data on the extent of croplands and the types of cultivated crops are essential to addressing the food insecurity challenges that many African countries face.

Aflatoxin contamination in grains is a significant health risk to humans and livestock as it causes human cancer, liver cirrhosis, stunting in children, and death.

Beavers are often referred to as “ecosystem engineers” because their dam-building activity reshapes river corridors, alters local hydrology, and creates mosaics of ponds, wetland

The concept of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) has been established to serve as a key climate indicator that

Ecosystem structure exhibits sensitivity to climate change.

Spatial autocorrelation is a property of any dataset that is linked to locations. So both raster and vector data have this property.

Accurate and reliable data is demanded in water, climate and environmental studies but such data cannot be guaranteed in many countries as observation networks have deteriorated.