Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover

Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover
Author: Chandra P. Giri
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1420070754

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Filling the need for a comprehensive book that covers both theory and application, Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover: Principles and Applications provides a synopsis of how remote sensing can be used for land-cover characterization, mapping, and monitoring from the local to the global scale. With contributions by leading scientists from aro

Land use planning and remote sensing

Land use planning and remote sensing
Author: D. Lindgren
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9401720355

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The purpose of this book is to introduce land planners to the principles of remote sensing and to the applications remote sensing has to the land planning process. The potential applications to land planning are many and varied. For example, remote sensing techniques, and aerial photography in particular, can provide planners with an overview of their communities they can obtain in no other way. These same techniques can also provide planners with a whole variety of land resource data and have the capability of updating these data on a syste matic basis. Maps, too, can be produced from a combination of remote sensing and cartographic techniques - engineering maps, topographic maps, property maps, and a host of other thematic maps. These maps and the photos from which they are made can be used by planners to explain proposed land use or zoning changes at public meetings. They may also be introduced as evidence in courts of law if later the results of these changes are contested by individual or groups of landowners. Since land planning tends to be conducted at local levels, the discussion in this book focuses on the uses of aerial photography - the most effective tool for small area analysis. The discussion is also directed at those who are not regular users of remote sensing techniques.

Historical Land Use/Land Cover Classification Using Remote Sensing

Historical Land Use/Land Cover Classification Using Remote Sensing
Author: Wafi Al-Fares
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 331900624X

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Although the development of remote sensing techniques focuses greatly on construction of new sensors with higher spatial and spectral resolution, it is advisable to also use data of older sensors (especially, the LANDSAT-mission) when the historical mapping of land use/land cover and monitoring of their dynamics are needed. Using data from LANDSAT missions as well as from Terra (ASTER) Sensors, the authors shows in his book maps of historical land cover changes with a focus on agricultural irrigation projects. The kernel of this study was whether, how and to what extent applying the various remotely sensed data that were used here, would be an effective approach to classify the historical and current land use/land cover, to monitor the dynamics of land use/land cover during the last four decades, to map the development of the irrigation areas, and to classify the major strategic winter- and summer-irrigated agricultural crops in the study area of the Euphrates River Basin.

Key Methods in Geography

Key Methods in Geography
Author: Nicholas Clifford
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2010-05-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1412935091

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"Its range is far broader than the majority of methods texts, being concerned with both human and physical geography... Given the seriousness with which Key Methods in Geography approaches all aspects of research, it will continue to find wide favour among undergraduate geographers." - Times Higher Education Textbook Guide "All geographers, whatever their interest, need to do research. This book will help them get started in the best possible way, with thoughtful advice on everything from project design, through choice of methods, to data analysis and presentation. The editors have assembled an impressive array of authors, all experts in their chosen field." - Tim Burt, University of Durham "Excellent book. Valuable teaching aid. Well written and covers a wide range of methods thoroughly." - Sue Rodway-Dyer, Exeter University "This is an excellent book and deals with a number of topics (which I teach) outside of the tutorial module where it is a recommended text for geographers. A very useful textbook throughout a 3 year Geography programme." - Ian Harris, Bangor University Key Methods in Geography is an introduction to the principal methodological issues involved in the collection, analysis and presentation of geographical information. It is unique in the reference literature for providing an overview of qualitative and quantitative methods for human and physical geography. An accessible primer, it will be used by students as a reference throughout their degree, on all issues from research design to presentation. This second edition has been fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on internet mediated research, diaries as a research method, making observations and measurements in the field, and the analysis of natural systems. Organized into four sections: Getting Started in Geographical Research; Generating and Working with Data in Human Geography; Generating and Working with Data in Physical Geography; Representing and Interpreting Geographical Data; each chapter comprises: A short definition A summary of the principal arguments A substantive 5,000-word discussion Use of real-life examples Annotated notes for further reading. The teaching of research methods is integral to all geography courses: Key Methods in Geography, 2nd Edition explains all of the key methods with which geography undergraduates must be conversant.

Dynamic land use/cover change modelling

Dynamic land use/cover change modelling
Author: Jamal Jokar Arsanjani
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642237053

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The thesis is an original and novel contribution to land use/land cover change analysis using methods of geosimulation and agent-based modeling. The author implements several traditional methodologies of land use change by means of remote sensing and GIS techniques. An Agent-Based Model was developed in order to simulate land use change in the Tehran metropolitan area, comparing the outcomes of each particular methodology. All methods are compared, and advantages and disadvantages discussed.

Land Use and Land Cover Mapping in Europe

Land Use and Land Cover Mapping in Europe
Author: Ioannis Manakos
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400779690

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Land use and land cover (LULC) as well as its changes (LUCC) are an interplay between bio-geophysical characteristics of the landscape and climate as well as the complex human interaction including its different patterns of utilization superimposed on the natural vegetation. LULC is a core information layer for a variety of scientific and administrative tasks(e.g. hydrological modelling, climate models, land use planning).In particular in the context of climate change with its impacts on socio-economic, socio-ecologic systems as well as ecosystem services precise information on LULC and LUCC are mandatory baseline datasets required over large areas. Remote sensing can provide such information on different levels of detail and in a homogeneous and reliable way. Hence, LULC mapping can be regarded as a prototype for integrated approaches based on spaceborne and airborne remote sensing techniques combined with field observations. The book provides for the first time a comprehensive view of various LULC activities focusing on European initiatives, such as the LUCAS surveys, the CORINE land covers, the ESA/EU GMES program and its resulting Fast-Track- and Downstream Services, the EU JRC Global Land Cover, the ESA GlobCover project as well as the ESA initiative on Essential Climate Variables. All have and are producing highly appreciated land cover products. The book will cover the operational approaches, but also review current state-of-the-art scientific methodologies and recommendations for this field. It opens the view with best-practice examples that lead to a view that exceeds pure mapping, but to investigate into drivers and causes as well as future projections.

Advanced Processing of Remote Sensing Data for Land Use and Land Cover

Advanced Processing of Remote Sensing Data for Land Use and Land Cover
Author: Alexander Zamyatin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2010
Genre: Land use
ISBN: 9783838329932

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Tasks of land use and land cover change analysis according to remote sensing data are confined to the need of on-line processing of large and constantly growing volumes of satellite information. These tasks require quite complex stages, among which, three are needed to be focused on. First, storage and transmission satellite information along communication channels with the application of the specialized compression methods with and without losses. Second, automated interpretation of time series remote sensing data, a high accuracy of which is achieved via texture analysis, parametric and non-parametric statistical and artificial neural network approaches. Third, land cover and land use change modeling with the time series thematic maps allowing one to make the results of short-term and long-term forecasting on an investigated area. The solution of the specified tasks with the high precision requires the development of advanced processing data approaches as well as a considerable increase of its productivity via new methods of high-performance parallel data processing based on both the expensive supercomputer equipment and the clusters of inexpensive personal computers.