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Monitoring Land Cover Change: Towards Sustainability

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  • Ioannis Manakos

    (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Information Technologies Institute, 6th km Harilaou-Thermi, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece)

  • Garik Gutman

    (NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546, USA)

  • Chariton Kalaitzidis

    (Department of Geoinformation in Environmental Management, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, 73100 Chania, Greece)

Abstract

In 2015, the United Nations member states adopted the 2030 Agenda, within which the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were established, with many of these goals calling for further research into sustainability [...]

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  • Ioannis Manakos & Garik Gutman & Chariton Kalaitzidis, 2021. "Monitoring Land Cover Change: Towards Sustainability," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-2, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:10:y:2021:i:12:p:1356-:d:698182
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