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Seasonal Satellites Sharpen Shrub Mapping in Inner Mongolia
Key Takeaways
- Researchers used PlanetScope time-series imagery and a U-Net model to estimate shrub cover.
- Adding seasonal observations improved explained variation by about 17% over single-period imagery.
- Sparse shrubs and sites outside the training data remain harder to map reliably.
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