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....
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...
"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...
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...
Wenming Nie,Yongping Yuan, William Kepner ,Maliha S.Nash, Michael Jackson, Caroline Erickson
The assessment of Landuse and Landcover (LULC) changes on hydrology is essential for the development of sustainable water resource strategies. Specifically, understanding how...
Prabuddh Kumar, Mishraa Aman, Raia Suresh, Chand Rai
Mapping and monitoring of land use land cover (LULC) changes in the Himalayas is vital for sustainable development, planning and management. Based on remote sensing (RS) and...
The objectives of this study are to quantify, based on remote sensing data, processes of land-cover change and to test a Markov-based model to generate short-term land-cover...
Johanna Mård, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Maurizio Mazzoleni
To understand the spatiotemporal changes of flood risk, we need to determine the way in which humans adapt
and respond to flood events. One adaptation option consists of...
Changes in biodiversity owing to vegetation degradation resulting from widespread
urbanization demands serious attention. However, the connection between vegetation
degradation...
Yao Yao, Dongsheng Chen, Le Chen, Huan Wang, Qingfeng Guan
Urban extent data play an important role in urban management and urban studies, such as monitoring the process of urbanization and changes in the spatial configuration of urban...
One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of...
Manoharan, Rajamanickam, Mersha Alemu, Behailu Legesse, and Mohammedreha Abajihad
Malaria is an epidemic disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium and transmitted using the chew of infected female mosquitoes of the species Anopheles. The...
Urbanization has a pivotal role to play on land use land cover changes and ecological degradation, in return with some socioeconomic benefits. Hence, it is important to have...
Dessu, Shimelis Behailu, Abdulkarim Hussein Seid, Anteneh Z. Abiy, and Assefa M Melesse
The Geospatial Stream Flow Model (GeoSFM) has been widely applied in data scarce regions for flood forecasting and streamflow simulation with remotely acquired data. GeoSFM was...
We report on a systematic ground-based validation of DMSP-OLS night lights
imagery to detect rural electrification in Vietnam. Based on an original survey of village-level
units...
Cheruto, Mercy C.; Kauti, Matheaus K.; Kisangau, Daniel P.; Kariuki, Patrick C.
The surface of the earth is undergoing rapid land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes due to various socioeconomic
activities and natural phenomena. The main aim of this study was to...
This paper presents an integrated study of urbanization trends in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province of China, by using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing....
John D. Bolten, Wade T. Crow, Xiwu Zhan, Thomas J. Jackson, Curt A. Reynolds
Soil moisture is a fundamental data source used by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) International Production Assessment Division (IPAD) to monitor crop growth...
Qingzhu Gao, Yu’e Li, Yunfan Wan, Erda Lin, Wei Xiong, Wangzha Jiangcun, Baoshan Wang, Wenfu Li
This study selected vegetation cover as the main evaluation index, calculated the grassland degradation index (GDI) and established the remote sensing monitoring and evaluation...