Resultados de búsqueda - Truth.

Data on the Land Cover Transition, Subsequent Landscape Degradation, and Improvement in Semi-Arid Rainfed Agricultural Land in North–West Tunisia por Shiri, Zahra, Frija, Aymen, Rejeb, Hichem, Ouerghemmi, Hassen, Le, Quang Bao

“…The input land cover (LC) data were taken from ESRI’s ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World and then assessed for accuracy using ground truth data points randomly selected from high-resolution images on the Google Earth Engine. …”
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Modeling turbidity of aquaculture pond in the East Kolkata Wetlands using Sentinel-2 bands and ground data through multivariate regression on Google Earth Engine por Mullick, A., Ghosh, Surajit, Chowdhury, A., Bhattacharyya, S.

“…The model was statistically calibrated using ground-truth turbidity and showed satisfactory predictive performance (R² =0.99; RMSE < 10 NTU), validating it for estimating turbidity in wetland waters. …”
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Can small reservoirs enhance sustainable agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa?: broadening the analytical horizons por Venot, Jean-Philippe, Hirvonen, M.

“…It has become an established development truth that such water infrastructures offer benefits in terms of food production and poverty alleviation -this despite the fact that performance and adoption study show, at best, patchy records. …”
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Narrative foresight in technical organizations: epistemological and methodological contributions from a practice of scenario method in Argentina por Patrouilleau, Maria Mercedes

“…Moreover,we also reflect on the utility of this approach in order to increase the strategic vision of complex organizations which are shaped, to a great extent, by linear schemes of thought where the empiric dimension of reality operates with a value of truth.…”
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Control over future payouts and willingness to pay for insurance: Experimental evidence from Kenyan farmers por Kramer, Berber, Waweru, Carol, Malacarne, Jonathan G.

“…Shock events in the recent past underscore this truth. Notably, Kenya experienced significant drought events in 2008-2011 (MOALF, 2021), 2016-2017 (Uhe et al., 2018), and 2020-2022 (FAO, 2021). …”
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The underlying causes of deforestation during “peacetime”: Evidence from the implementation of the peace agreement in Colombia por Triana Ángel, Natalia, Pirela Rios, Ana Milagros, Junca Paredes, Jhon Jairo, Burkart, Stefan

“…These results were put in relation with the Final Report of the Colombian Truth Commission, which further elaborates on the reasons why peace and stabilisation remain elusive in Colombia, even after FARC-EP demobilisation. …”
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The Concept of the Global Hunger Index por von Grebmer, Klaus, Bernstein, Jill, Nabarro, David, Prasai, Nilam, Amin, Shazia, Yohannes, Yisehac, Sonntag, Andrea, Patterson, Fraser, Towey, Olive, Thompson, Jennifer

“…Yet this cannot be achieved without increased effort and mobilization of resources. We believe there is truth to the adage that “what gets measured gets done”; thus, we intend to consistently and systematically measure global hunger to help ensure that it will be eradicated quickly and once and for all.…”
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Remote sensing and census based assessment and scope for improvement of rice and wheat water productivity in the Indo-Gangetic Basin por Cai, X.L., Sharma, Bharat R.

“…A crop dominance map is synthesized from ground truth data and three existing LULC maps. National statistics on crop area and production information are collected and the yield is interpolated to pixel level using moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). …”
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Impacts of small built infrastructure in inland valleys in Burkina Faso and Mali: rationale for a systems approach that thinks beyond rice? por Katic, Pamela G., Lautze, Jonathan F., Namara, Regassa E.

“…These findings will help development planners to better predict the degree and nature of change engendered by water storage projects in inland valley sites, and help to ground-truth grand statements about the development potential of this piece of natural infrastructure.…”
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Index insurance and climate risk management: Addressing social equity por Fisher, Eleanor, Hellin, Jonathan, Greatrex, Helen, Jensen, Nathaniel D.

“…Attention to how benefits and burdens of index insurance are distributed raises the unpalateable truth for development policy that the poorest members of rural society can be excluded. …”
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Film clubbing por Paul, Felicitas

“…With the help of a qualitative interview study applying an Interaction ritual theoretical perspective and using recent research from media psychology on the role of eudaimonic (truth-seeking) entertainment experiences, I answer the following research questions: What is the motivation and driver to engage with the climate crisis through climate film clubs? …”
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Animal health and genetics—Issues and controversies for ILRI research por International Livestock Research Institute

“…4) How do we more effectively translate the 'blue sky' research into messages for farmers and technologies that value chain actors can understand and apply? 5) How do we 'ground truth' blue sky investments - that is critical to continue needed productivity growth into the future - into shorter-horizon research to support 'value chain' work? …”
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The enviro-champs: establishing a framework for a technologically upgraded environmental monitoring network at community scale por Pattinson, N. B., Taylor, J., Lepheana, A. T., Dickens, Chris W. S., Graham, P. M.

“…However, several areas within the initiative remain where it could be improved, especially technologically. GroundTruth, in conjunction with technical and funding support from CGIAR Research Initiative on Digital Innovation and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), engaged in a project which aimed to i) establish recruitment, training, and education tools to support establishment of a technologically integrated and upgraded Enviro-Champs initiative, ii) develop an outline for a training and education workshop for Enviro-Champs once they are hired, iii) improve data collection and reporting capacity and efficiency with a sustainable system (in collaboration with CGIAR and FormShare), and iv) pilot test technological improvements to the Enviro-Champs initiative within the Mpophomeni Enviro-Champs in conjunction with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), and Umgeni Water. …”
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Design, construction and evaluation of a drone-tethered river survey vessel por Maharaj, U., Singh, K., Pike, T., Pike, C.

“…As part of the CGIAR Initiative on Digital Innovation, GroundTruth, in partnership with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), investigated the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to aid in performing bathymetric and water quality surveys. …”
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Land use mapping of selected sites in the Cambodia, Mekong Mega-Delta using high resolution satellite imagery por Villano, Lorena, Garcia, Cornelia, Rala, Arnel, Raviz, Jeny, Laborte, Alice

“…The classification results are further validated using ground truth data collected through field surveys and supplementary sources such as Google Earth and the RIICE project’s rice area maps. …”
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Inundations in the Sri Lanka: monitoring and analysis from MODIS [Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer] and ALOS [Advanced Land Observing Satellite] instrument por Amarnath, Giriraj, Alahacoon, Niranga, Inada, Yoshiaki

“…Accuracy assessment of land-cover classification was conducted using existing ground truth information and Google Earth with as resulted in the overall accuracy as 71.16% and the Kappa statistics as 62.83%.…”
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Improving the accuracy of remotely sensed irrigated areas using post-classification enhancement through UAV [Unmanned Aerial Vehicle] capability por Nhamo, Luxon, Dijk, R. van, Magidi, J., Wiberg, David A., Tshikolomo, K.

“…The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) applied on Landsat imageries on the mapped fields during the dry season (July to August) was used to identify irrigated areas, because years of satellite data analysis suggest that healthy crop conditions during dry seasons are only possible with irrigation. Ground truth points totaling 137 were collected during fieldwork for pre-processing and accuracy assessment. …”
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Modelling of carbamazepine and diclofenac in a river network por Vochezer, Klaus

“…The model indicated that up to 28 % of the seasonal variation in Diclofenac loads could be explained by direct photolysis. In truth both hypotheses have to be combined to fully explain the drop. …”
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Varbergs Societetspark 1856 - 2008 : en promenadparks förvandling por Gustavsson, Kristina

“…There was already a health resort park of this kind in Varberg,the Brunnsparken, but it had to close down because it was to small and could not compete with the Societetsparken. To tell the truth, Societetsparken was little of a fake because it did not have its own well.The owners had to deliver water from another well, also a famous place, called Svartekällan(The Black Well), south of Varberg, where the tradition of drinking healthy water started in 1811 when the well with its excellent water was first discovered. …”

Assessment of land degradation in semi-arid Tanzania: Using remote sensing to inform the Sustainable Development Goal 15.3 por Reith, J.A.

“…In order to verify these results and make the assessment more precise, an additional collection of SOC data and larger scale ground truth is necessary. To nonetheless achieve LD neutrality until 2030, spatial planning should focus on hotspot areas and implement sustainable land management practices.…”
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