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• 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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• Impact of data integration technique on historical land-use/land-cover change...

  C.C. Petit & E.F. Lambin

  Historical reconstructions of land-use/cover change often require comparing maps derived from different sources. The objective of this study was to measure land-use/cover...
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• Assessing different remote sensing techniques to detect land use/cover change...

  S.Berberoglu, A.Akin

  This paper describes different change detection techniques, including image differencing, image rationing, image regression and change vector analysis (CVA) to assess their...
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• Land use change mapping and analysis using Remote Sensing and GIS: A case stu...

  Amna Butt, Rabia Shabbir , Sheikh Saeed, Ahmad Neelam Aziz

  Evaluation of watersheds and development of a management strategy require accurate measurement of the past and present land cover/land use parameters as changes observed in...
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• Analyzing Land Use/Land Cover Changes Using Remote Sensing and GIS in Rize, N...

  Selçuk Reis

  Mapping land use/land cover (LULC) changes at regional scales is essential for a wide range of applications, including landslide, erosion, land planning, global warming etc....
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• Coastal geomorphological and land‐use and land‐cover study of Sagar Island, B...

  K.S.Jayappa, D. Mitra & A. K. Mishra

  Morphological changes on Sagar Island are occurring at an alarming rate due to both natural and anthropogenic activities. The eastern part of the island is rapidly eroding due...
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• Modeling the environmental impacts of urban land use and land cover change—a ...

  Stephan Pauleit, Roland Ennos & Yvonne Golding

  There is a lack of information on the environmental effects of urban change and the dynamics of greenspace. Such information is essential for a better understanding of the...
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• A geographically weighted random forest approach for evaluate forest change d...

  Fabián Santos ,Valerie Graw,Santiago Bonilla

  The Tropical Andes region includes biodiversity hotspots of high conservation priority whose management strategies depend on the analysis of forest dynamics drivers (FDDs)....
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• Land Characterization Analysis of Surface Temperature of Semi-Arid Mountainou...

  Javed Mallick

  This knowledge of land surface temperature and its spatial variations within a city environment is of prime importance to the study of urban climate and human-environment...
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• Land use/land cover changes in the coastal zone of Ban Don Bay, Thailand usin...

  W. Muttitanon &N. K. Tripathi Corresponding author

  Land use/land cover of the Earth is changing dramatically because of human activities and natural disasters. Information about changes is useful for updating land use/land cover...
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• Remote sensing of land use/cover changes and its effect on wind erosion poten...

  Mahrooz Rezaei​, Abdolmajid Sameni, Seyed Rashid Fallah Shamsi, Harm Bartholomeus

  Wind erosion is a complex process influenced by different factors. Most of these factors are stable over time, but land use/cover and land management practices are changing...
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• Assessing land use and land cover change in the Wassa West District of Ghana ...

  John Manyimadin Kusimi

  Vast tracts of forests are lost globally every year especially in the developing countries of the tropics due to various human activities such as lumbering, farming, bush fires,...
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• Application of remote sensing and GIS inland use/land cover mapping and chang...

  Daniel Ayalew Mengistu Ayobami T. Salami

  Mapping land use/land cover (LULC) and change detection using remote sensing and GIS techniques is an area of interest that has been attracting increasing attention. This paper...
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• Dynamics of land-use and land-cover change in Freetown, Sierra Leone and its ...

  Gerald Forkuor & Olufunke Cofie

  This paper presents findings of a land-use and land-cover (LULC) change mapping exercise conducted in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Nine LULC classes were mapped from multi-temporal...
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• Monitoring coastal zone land use and land cover changes of Abu Dhabi using re...

  M.M. Yagoub & Giridhar Reddy Kolan

  Coastal zones are most vulnerable for landuse changes in this rapid industrialization and urbanization epoch. It is necessary to evaluate land use — land cover (LULC) changes to...
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• Land use and land cover change detection in the western Nile delta of Egypt u...

  O.R Adb El-kawy, J.K Rod, H.A Ismail, A.S Suliman

  Continual, historical, and precise information about the land use and land cover (LULC) changes of the Earth’s surface is extremely important for any kind of sustainable...
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• Dynamics of Land Use and Land Cover Change Using Remote Sensing and GIS: A Ca...

  Afera Halefom, Asirat Teshome, Ermias Sisay, Imran Ahmad

  The importance of accurate and timely information describing the nature and extent of land resources and changes over time is increasing, especially in fast-growing urban areas....
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• Classification of Land Use/Land Cover Changes Using GIS and Remote Sensing Te...

  Mohd Khairul Amri Kamarudin, Kabir Abdulkadir Gidado, Mohd Ekhwan Toriman, Hafizan Juahir, Roslan Umar, Noorjima Abd Wahab, Salisu Ibrahim, Suriyani Awang, Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud

  Geographical information system (GIS) techniques and Remote Sensing (RS) data are fundamental in the study of land use (LU) and land cover (LC) changes and classification. The...
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• Sensing & GIS Technology: Case study of Pathankot and Dhar Kalan Tehsils, Punjab

  Singh Prabhbir

  "Digital change detection is the process helps in determining the changes associated with land use and land cover properties. Landuse/landcover change detection in the form of...
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• Homisland-IO: Homogeneous Land Use/Land Cover over the Small Islands of the I...

  Christophe Révillion, Artadji Attoumane and Vincent Herbreteau

  Many small islands are located in the southwestern Indian Ocean. These islands have their own environmental specificities and very fragmented landscapes. Generic land use...