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• Deforestation and Land Cover Learning Module

  Shanchao Wang, Natalie Ayers

  INTRODUCTION Introduction to Remote Sensing This section is adopted from module 1, section 1 of Open Nighttime Lights. Please refer to it for more details and a video...

• 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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• Household demographic change and land use/land cover change in the Brazilian ...

  Leah K. VanWey, Álvaro O. D’Antona & Eduardo S. Brondízio

  Demographic interest in population and environment has grown in recent decades. One of the most prominent research areas in this tradition addresses the impact of population on...
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• Mapping syndromes of land change in Spain with remote sensing time series, de...

  M.Stellmes, A.Röder, T. Udelhoven, J.Hill

  The country of Spain is representative of land change processes in Mediterranean member states of the European Union (EU). These land change processes are often triggered by...
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• Land use change patterns in the Río de la Plata grasslands: The influence of ...

  Ernesto Vega German Bald ibEsteban G.JobbágybJoséParueloa

  The Río de la Plata grasslands (RPG) in South America are one of the largest temperate grasslands regions of the world. This region plays a key role in international crop...

• Land-use and land-cover dynamics in response to changes in climatic, biologic...

  Robin S. Reid, Russell L. Kruska, Nyawira Muthui, Andualem Taye, Sara Wotton, Cathleen J. Wilson & Woudyalew Mulatu

  Few studies of land-use/land-cover change provide an integrated assessment of the driving forces and consequences of that change, particularly in Africa. Our objectives were to...

• Remote sensing and GIS for mapping and monitoring land cover and land-use cha...

  Adel Shalaby , Ryutaro Tateishi

  In this study, maximum likelihood supervised classification and post-classification change detection techniques were applied to Landsat images acquired in 1987 and 2001,...
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