The ongoing war in Ukraine has significantly disrupted agricultural land use, leading to reduced cropland areas, increased land abandonment, and heightened uncertainty in food production. This study presents a multi-year assessment of war-induced agricultural land use changes in Ukraine using machine learning-based classification applied to Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. By leveraging cloud computing platforms, […]
...Russia’s war in Ukraine has caused extensive damage. Less well-known are the climate costs of the billions of litres of fuel used by military vehicles, vast fields and forests set ablaze, hundreds of oil and gas structures blown up and mountains of steel and cement used to fortify the front lines and, increasingly, cities and energy infrastructure.
