IEEE OFCCT 2023: Keynote 2.2: Impact of Climate Change on Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Remote Sensing Perspective

Climate change through global warming and sea level rise has adverse effects on the terrestrial ecosystem. In this decade, extreme events such as floods, droughts, and wildfires have increased drastically. Remote sensing has emerged as an invaluable tool in understanding and addressing these changes. Remote sensing-based satellite images can monitor and provide critical information in near-real time of extreme events. Some key drivers, such as precipitation, sea level rise, soil moisture, vegetation health, vegetation moisture content, and vegetation dry matter content, are crucial to monitoring and mitigating agricultural drought, flood, and forest fires. These key drivers can be easily estimated using remote sensing data sets and can be used to mitigate extreme events in real time.