Mapping lulc dynamics and its potential implication on forest cover in malam jabba region with landsat time series imagery and random forest classification

M Junaid, J Sun, A Iqbal, M Sohail, S Zafar, A Khan - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pakistan has an annual deforestation rate of 4.6% which is the second highest in Asia. It has
been described by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that the deforestation rate …

[HTML][HTML] Extracting and analyzing forest and woodland cover change in Eritrea based on landsat data using supervised classification

MG Ghebrezgabher, T Yang, X Yang, X Wang… - The Egyptian Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Remote sensing images are suitable for quantifying and analyzing land-cover dynamics,
particularly for forest-cover change. In this study, the methodology used the supervised …

[HTML][HTML] Spatio-temporal landscape modeling of urban growth patterns in Dhanbad Urban Agglomeration, India using geoinformatics techniques

K Lal, D Kumar, A Kumar - The Egyptian journal of remote sensing and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The study deals with the quantification of urban sprawl and land transformation of Dhanbad
Urban Agglomeration (DUA) using geoinformatics and gradient modeling during last four …

Assessing land cover transformation for urban environmental sustainability through satellite sensing

SA Bokhari, Z Saqib, S Amir, S Naseer, M Shafiq, A Ali… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Rapid urbanization in Pakistan is triggering regulated and unregulated land cover changes
in planned and semiplanned urban areas. The key objective of this study is to assess the …

[HTML][HTML] Land evaluation suitability for settlement based on soil permeability, topography and geology ten years after tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia

M Rusdi, R Roosli, MSS Ahamad - … Journal of Remote Sensing and Space …, 2015 - Elsevier
Years after the tragedy of the tsunami in Banda Aceh researchers are still saddled with the
problem of water permeability, slope and geology suitability for settlements. Social and …

Quantifying and mapping land use changes and regulating ecosystem service potentials in a data-scarce peri-urban region in Kenya

PW Wangai, B Burkhard, F Müller - Ecosystems and people, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Recent scientific developments are advancing to link land use and land cover (LULC)
change with ecosystem service (ES) potentials. Such links within peri-urban ecosystems are …

The dynamics of urbanizations and concomitant land use land cover transformations in planned and quasi-planned urban settlements of Pakistan

HM Zaman, Z Saqib, AS Bokhari, N Akhtar… - Geography, Environment …, 2020 - ges.rgo.ru
An attempt has been made to compare the salient characteristics of LULC transformations in
planned (Faisalabad) and quasi-planned (Jhang) urban settlements of Pakistan. The …

Land cover change modelling in Hyrcanian forests, northern Iran: a landscape pattern and transformation analysis perspective

SJ Shooshtari, K Shayesteh… - Cuadernos De …, 2018 - dialnet.unirioja.es
The main objective of this study is to analyze the spatio-temporal changes in land cover and
land use (1984-2010), as well to simulate future land cover for 2030 in the Neka River Basin …

[PDF][PDF] Integrative assessment and modelling of the non timber forest products potential in Nuba Mountains of Sudan by field methods, remote sensing and GIS

T Deafalla - 2022 - core.ac.uk
The links between climate change, environmental degradation, and conflict are highly
complex and poorly understood as yet. Resources always constitute risks of conflict in …

The Effects of Land Cover Change on Sustainability: Human Security and Environmental Change in Semi-arid Ecosystems

THH Deafalla, E Csaplovics, O Elkhair… - … Ecological Systems (SES …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The links between Environmental Change (EC), seen as a destabilizing
interference in the ecosystems' equilibrium, on the one hand, and the outbreak of violent …