Unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAV) are widely used for yield estimations in agricultural production. Many significant improvements have been made towards the usage of hyperspectral and thermal sensors. The practical application of these new techniques meanwhile has been limited by the cost of data...

Open-access gridded climate products have been suggested as a potential source of data for index insurance design and operation in data-limited regions. However, index insurance requires climate data with long historical records, global geographical coverage and fine spatial resolution at the...

This study is the first to develop food supply and demand projections over the 21st century for Uzbekistan by considering the combined effects of climate change and soil salinization. The study results suggest that rising summer temperatures and soil salinity will considerably reduce wheat...