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Trip to Rwanda
September 4, 2022
Most of our group went to Rwanda during July to organize a workshop and conduct fieldwork. We introduced our tree mapping methods to authorities from Rwanda who will implement it in national monitoring systems.
New paper in Nature Sustainability
Feb 15, 2022
China has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 but policies favouring urbanization could slow down progress. This study tests the hypothesis that urbanization and carbon neutrality are not mutually exclusive and that sustainably managed urbanization could increase carbon sequestration, especially in rural areas.
AGU 2021
Dec 30, 2021
Our group had 13 contributions at the AGU meeting 2021. We have collected the posters and show them here on the website.
New comment in Nature Climate Change
Nov 28, 2021
Lead by David Skole, we want to raise attention on the importance of trees outside forests.
New papers online
Nov 28, 2021
Wenmin has published a study on the bidirectional interactions between soil moisture and vegetation, and Zhongxiang on the importance of tree cover changes on satellite observed changes in phenology
Siyu Liu joined
October 13, 2021
Siyu joined as PhD candidate. Having a strong technical background with focus on deep learning and remote sensing, Siyu will join our work and focus on modelling tree height at large scales.
New paper in Global Environmental Change
October 12, 2021
Wenmin's study on vegetation trends in cities is now online, it's open access.
Paper in Nature
June 27, 2021
Our work on tree counting in drylands has been published in Nature.
New website online.
June 27, 2021
The major aim of this website is to introduce our work, but also disseminate results, once available, mainly from the ERC project TOFDRY.