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Four decades of remote sensing for monitoring terrestrial ecosystems: a global review and future challenges

Review of 1,567 studies (1985–2025) shows ecosystem mapping shifted from manual aerial image interpretation to AI-driven, cloud-based workflows with multi-sensor data. ML dominates, data cubes enable monitoring, but gaps remain in biodiverse/unstable regions; next-gen relies on in-situ data + AI pipelines.

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