Detecting and attributing climate change-driven shifts in terrestrial ecosystem vegetation activity

Climate change is disrupting the normal functioning of Earth's systems. However, detecting changes in vegetation dynamics and structure, and attributing them to human-induced climate change, has proved difficult. Collins will explore how recent advances in AI offer new tools for analyzing vegetation dynamics from satellite data. He will present how he is applying these tools to detect and attribute changes in the vegetation dynamics of protected areas in South Africa.