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• Applications of Remote Sensing for Impact Evaluation

  Aayush Malik, Douglas Glandon, Sayak Khatua, Jane Hammaker

  Geospatial data can play a significant and increasing role in supporting impact evaluations – as well as other stages of the policy process such as design and implementation....

• Satellite Crop Type Mapping

  Natalie Ayers, with contributing authors Shruti Jain and the Atlas AI team

  This tutorial provides guidance on creating a machine learning model to identify crop types from satellite imagery and other earth observation data. It follows a process refined...
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• Radiance Calibrated Nighttime Lights Tutorial

  Natalie Ayers

  Satellite imagery of nighttime lights provides a unique perspective on the spread of electric lighting across the globe. While these data are often used to track development,...
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• Population-Weighted Wealth Mapping

  Natalie Ayers, with contributing author Emily Aiken

  This tutorial will guide the user through the creation of population-weighted wealth maps and statistics for administrative areas of interest. After an explanation of...
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• Global Subway Systems Learning Module

  Natalie Ayers

  Subways are a popular form of public transportation worldwide, given their speed, capacity, and lack of reliance on road infrastructure and conditions. Proponents argue that the...
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• Deforestation and Land Cover Learning Module

  Shanchao Wang, Natalie Ayers

  Vegetation Continuous Fields Datasource for Calculating Deforestation Information about vegetation coverage of the earth's surface - particularly changes in coverage - enables...
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• Analysis of land-use/land-cover change in the Carpathian region based on remo...

  Zsuzsanna Dezso , Judit Bartholy, RitaPongracz ,Zoltan Barcza

  In the last few years serious flood events occurred at the watershed of the river Tisza (both in Hungary and in Ukraine). One of the reasons of these floods is heavy...
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• Is Neolithic land use correlated with demography? An evaluation of pollen-der...

  "Jutta Lechterbeck, Kevan Edinborough, Tim Kerig, Ralph Fyfe, Neil Roberts, Stephen Shennan Stephen Shennan"

  The transformation of natural landscapes in Middle Europe began in the Neolithic as a result of the introduction of food-producing economies. This paper examines the relation...
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• Socio-economic factors influencing land-use and land-cover changes in the mio...

  Ferdinand, Handavuab, Paxie W.C.Chirwa, Stephen Syampungani

  This study examined socio-economic factors that influence land-use and land-cover dynamics in the Copperbelt miombo woodlands of Zambia. Data were collected through household...
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• What Drives Accelerated Land Cover Change in Central Argentina? Synergistic C...

  Marcelo R. Zak, Marcelo Cabido, Daniel Cáceres & Sandra Díaz

  Synergistic combinations of climatic and land use changes have the potential to produce the most dramatic impacts on land cover. Although this is widely accepted, empirical...
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• Dynamics of urban land use changes with remote sensing: Case of Ibadan, Nigeria

  Bankole Michael Oladele and Bakare Hakeem Oladimeji

  There are so many problems confronting most contemporary cities in the recent time particularly among the less developed countries around the world. These problems have been...
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• Land use and land cover dynamics in the Keleta watershed, Awash River basin, ...

  Daniel Bekele,Tena Alamirew, ORCID Icon, Asfaw Kebede, Gete Zeleke & Assefa M. Melesse

  Unprecedented pace and magnitude of land use/land cover (LULC) change in the Ethiopian highlands is a key problem threatening the natural ecosystem and creates vulnerability to...
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• Land-use and land-cover change processes in the Upper Uruguay Basin: linking ...

  Marcos Wellausen Dias de Freitas, João Roberto dos Santos & Diógenes Salas Alves

  Land-use and land-cover change affects both ecological and socioeconomic processes, motivating the integration of environmental and socioeconomic data to help understand this...
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• Characterizing temporal vegetation dynamics of land use in regional scale of ...

  Yudi Setiawan ,Kunihiko Yoshino &William D. Philpot

  Improving the understanding of land use and land cover is a major research challenge for the human-environmental sciences and is essential for many aspects of global...
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• Impacts of land use/land cover change and socioeconomic development on region...

  Kai-ya Wu , Xin-yue, Yeb Zhi-fang Qi, Hao Zhang

  This study analyzes land use dynamics, spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem service value (ESV), and the forces driving growth in the Hangzhou metropolitan area (HMA) in China....
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• Integrating Remote Sensing, GIS, Census, and Socioeconomic Data in Studying t...

  Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe

  "Land is a very important asset and a means to sustain livelihood. In the face of a rapidly growing global population, increase in technological capacity, and affluence, the...
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• Drivers and Implications of Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Central Hig...

  "B Gessesse, W Bewket"

  This study explores the major drivers of Land-use/Land-cover (LULC) dynamics and the observed environmental degradation as a response to these changes in the Modjo watershed,...
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• Agricultural land use dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon based on remote sensin...

  Giovana M.de Espindola , Ana Paula D.de Aguiar, Edzer Pebesma ,Gilberto Câmara, Leila Fonseca

  The potential impact of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon on greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere calls for policies that take account of changes in forest cover....
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• Assessing spatial dynamics of urban growth using an integrated land use model...

  Olga Lucia, Puertasa Cristian, Henríquez, Francisco Javier Meza

  Scenario analysis of urban dynamics from spatial land use models can support urban, planning and policy. An integrated modeling approach, linking assessment of urban spatial...
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• Modeling the Drivers of Urban Land Use Change in the Pearl River Delta, China...

  Karen C. Seto, and Robert K. Kaufmann

  This paper estimates econometric models of the socioeconomic drivers of urban land use change in the Pearl River Delta, China. The panel data used to estimate the models are...
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