Modeling and prediction of land use land cover change dynamics based on land change modeler (Lcm) in nashe watershed, upper blue nile basin, Ethiopia

MK Leta, TA Demissie, J Tränckner - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Change of land use land cover (LULC) has been known globally as an essential driver of
environmental change. Assessment of LULC change is the most precise method to …

Explaining the unsuitability of the kappa coefficient in the assessment and comparison of the accuracy of thematic maps obtained by image classification

GM Foody - Remote sensing of environment, 2020 - Elsevier
The kappa coefficient is not an index of accuracy, indeed it is not an index of overall
agreement but one of agreement beyond chance. Chance agreement is, however, irrelevant …

Reef Cover, a coral reef classification for global habitat mapping from remote sensing

EV Kennedy, CM Roelfsema, MB Lyons, EM Kovacs… - Scientific Data, 2021 - nature.com
Coral reef management and conservation stand to benefit from improved high-resolution
global mapping. Yet classifications underpinning large-scale reef mapping to date are …

Remote sensing of artisanal and small-scale mining: A review of scalable mapping approaches

I Nursamsi, SR Phinn, N Levin, MS Luskin… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) significantly influences the socio-economic
development of many low-to-middle-income countries, albeit sometimes at the expense of …

Accuracy, bias, and improvements in mapping crops and cropland across the United States using the USDA cropland data layer

TJ Lark, IH Schelly, HK Gibbs - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Cropland Data Layer (CDL) is a 30 m resolution
crop-specific land cover map produced annually to assess crops and cropland area across …

Assessment of peri-urban wetland ecological degradation through importance-performance analysis (IPA): A study on Chatra Wetland, India

A Das, T Basu - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
Application of importance-performance analysis (IPA) has received wide applicability to
reveal resident's satisfaction with the performance of ecological services. In recent days …

Development of an integrated peri-urban wetland degradation assessment approach for the Chatra Wetland in eastern India

T Basu, A Das, QB Pham, N Al-Ansari, NTT Linh… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The loss of peri-urban wetlands is a major side effect of urbanization in India in recent days.
Timely and proper assessment of wetland area change is essential for the conservation of …

Spatial validation of spectral unmixing results: A systematic review

RM Cavalli - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The pixels of remote images often contain more than one distinct material (mixed pixels),
and so their spectra are characterized by a mixture of spectral signals. Since 1971, a shared …

Iterative training sample expansion to increase and balance the accuracy of land classification from VHR imagery

ZY Lv, G Li, Z Jin, JA Benediktsson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Imbalanced training sets are known to produce suboptimal maps for supervised
classification. Therefore, one challenge in mapping land cover is acquiring training data that …

[HTML][HTML] Association between greenspace morphology and prevalence of non-communicable diseases mediated by air pollution and physical activity

H Wang, LG Tassinary - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2024 - Elsevier
Neighborhood greenspace is a recognized roborant, yet limited is known regarding the
influence of greenspace spatial morphology on the prevalence of non-communicable …