Despite phosphorus (P) being crucial for plant nutrition and thus food security, excessive P fertilization harms soil and aquatic ecosystems. Accordingly, the European Green Deal and derived strategies aim to reduce P losses and fertilizer consumption in agricultural soils. The objective of this study is to calculate a soil P budget, allowing the quantification of the P surpluses/deficits in the European Union (EU) and the UK, considering the major inputs (inorganic fertilizers, manure, atmospheric deposition, and chemical weathering) and outputs (crop production, plant residues removal, losses by erosion) for the period 2011–2019. more ...

The erosive force of rainfall (rainfall erosivity) is a major driver of soil, nutrient losses worldwide and an important input for soil erosion assessments models. Here, we present a comprehensive set of future erosivity projections at a 30 arc-second (∼1 km2) spatial scale using 19 downscaled General Circulation Models (GCMs) simulating three Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) for the periods 2041–2060 and 2061–2080. more ...

Despite recent developments in modeling global soil erosion by water, to date, no substantial progress has been made towards more dynamic inter- and intra-annual assessments. In this regard, the main challenge is still represented by the limited availability of high temporal resolution rainfall data needed to estimate rainfall erosivity. As the availability of high temporal resolution rainfall data will most likely not increase in future decades since the monitoring networks have been declining since the 1980s, the suitability of alternative approaches to estimate global rainfall erosivity using satellite-based rainfall data was explored in this study. For this purpose, we used the high spatial and temporal resolution global precipitation estimates obtained with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Data Record (CDR) Climate Prediction Center MORPHing (CMORPH) technique. more ...

In this study, we focused on estimating the P removal from soils by crop harvest and removal of crop residues. Specifically, we attempted to estimate the P removal by taking into account the production area and productivity rates of 37 crops for 220 regions in the European Union (EU) and the UK. To estimate the P removal by crops, we included the P concentrations in plant tissues (%), the crop humidity rates, the crop residues production, and the removal rates of the crop residues. more ...

Στα πλαίσια της δημοσιοποίησης των αποτελεσμάτων της διδακτορικής μου διατριβής με θέμα “Μοντέλα αστικής εξάπλωσης και παρακολούθηση με τηλεπισκόπηση νυκτερινών φώτων” έχει αναρτηθεί ειδική ενότητα στην διεύθυνση https://phd.geographer.gr/

Η διατριβή είναι διαθέσιμη στο Εθνικό Αρχείο Διδακτορικών Διατριβών.

Η διατριβή στοχεύει στην παρακολούθηση και ανάλυση της λειτουργίας των …

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Mercury (Hg) is one of the most dangerous pollutants worldwide. In the European Union (EU), we recently estimated the Hg distribution in topsoil using 21,591 samples and a series of geo-physical inputs. In this manuscript, we investigate the impact of mining activities, chrol-alkali industries and other diffuse pollution sources as primary anthropogenic sources of Hg hotspots in the EU. more ...

Heavy rainstorms play a central role in the water-driving soil erosion processes. An in-depth knowledge about temporal and spatial erosivity of rainfall events is required to gain a better understanding of soil erosion processes and optimize soil protection measures efficiency. In this study, the spatiotemporal distribution of more than 300,000 erosive events measured at 1181 locations, part of the Rainfall Erosivity Database at European Scale (REDES) database, is studied to shed some new light on the rainfall erosivity in Europe. more ...

Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) 24-h data are substantially affected by lunar illumination. A new method is proposed to correct this distortion and be able to form a consistent time series. The method has the advantage of being relatively simple in its deployment while at the same time effective. The results show that the proposed method removes periodical illumination noise due to the lunar circle while preserving meaningful information, in the test sites applied. more ...

In the past, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System data have been successfully adjusted based on the presence of vegetation in each pixel. We propose a further adjustment based on radar data obtained by the SeaWinds scatterometer. It is shown that the adjustment results in substantial accuracy gains, measured asincreased correlation with the more accurate Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite data aswell as with the existing instances of radiance calibrated DSMPOLS data. The proposed adjust-ment is easy to implement. The improvement of the proposed method is particularly significant in arid regions where vegetation is relatively sparse. more ...

Η ανάρτηση αυτή περιλαμβάνει το περιεχόμενο από το workshop στο FOSSCOMM 2019 στην Λαμία. Για περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες ανατρέξτε στο github repository.

Στόχος του εργαστηρίου είναι η εξοικείωση του χρήστη με το πακέτο raster της R το οποίο προσφέρει την δυνατότητα ανάγνωσης ψηφιδωτών δεδομένων (raster) και επεξεργασίας τους (crop, reclassify, reproject …

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