Publications by authors named "A Khairoun"
Global coarse-resolution (≥250 m) burned area (BA) products have been used to estimate fire related forest loss, but we hypothesised that a significant part of fire impacts might be undetected because of the underestimation of small fires (<100 ha), especially in the tropics. In this paper, we analysed fire-related forest cover loss in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for 2016 and 2019 based on a BA product generated from Sentinel-2 data (20 m), which was observed to have significantly lower omission errors than the coarse-resolution BA products. Using these higher resolution BA datasets, we found that fires contribute to >46 % of total forest losses over SSA, more than twice the estimates from coarse-resolution BA products.
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- - Superficial digital flexor tendinitis (SDFT) and proximal suspensory desmitis (PSD) are common equine injuries causing lameness, treated with various methods including electrohydraulic shock wave therapy (ESWT).
- - A study analyzed ESWT treatment outcomes in horses from 2010 to 2021, comparing those receiving three or more treatments versus fewer, and found significant lameness score improvements with more treatments but no notable ultrasound differences.
- - The results indicated that time spent in follow-up was crucial for positive outcomes, while the chronic nature of injury negatively impacted lameness improvement; however, short- and long-term outcomes were similar between the two treatment groups.
Coarse resolution sensors are not very sensitive at detecting small fire patches, making current estimations of global burned areas (BA) very conservative. Using medium or high-resolution sensors to generate BA products becomes then a priority, particularly in areas where fires tend to be small and frequent. Building on previous work that developed a small fire dataset (SFD) for Sub-Saharan Africa for 2016, this paper presents a new version of the dataset for 2019 using the two Sentinel-2 satellites (A and B) and VIIRS active fires.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Navicular disease in the horse often requires injection of the navicular bursa. We have developed an ultrasound-guided, lateral needle approach to navicular bursocentesis, which avoids penetration of the deep digital flexor tendon (DDFT) and the need for radiographic control.
Objectives: To describe and evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of an ultrasound-guided, lateral bursocentesis technique.