Biomass is currently the main renewable energy source (RES) in EU, particularly Poland. Solid biomass for purposes primarily sourced from forests, wood processing industry, and agriculture. A significant of this feedstock could also be short-rotation woody crops (SRWCs), including black locust, poplar, willow. Since numerous factors determine SRWC quality, current study aimed at assessing therm...

Satellite and ground-based data were combined in a monitoring system to quantify the link between climate conditions and the risk of locust infestations in the southern part of Lake Balkhash's drainage basin in the Republic of Kazakhstan. In this monitoring system, the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), derived from the SPOT-VGT satellite, was used for mapping potential locust habit...