Understanding land use and land cover changes has become a necessity in managing and monitoring natural resources and development especially urban planning. Remote sensing …
Mosaic landscapes under shifting cultivation, with their dynamic mix of managed and natural land covers, often fall through the cracks in remote sensing–based land cover and land use …
Z Abbas, G Yang, Y Zhong, Y Zhao - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Land use land cover (LULC) transition analysis is a systematic approach that helps in understanding physical and human involvement in the natural environment and sustainable …
This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes. Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect …
The intensification of land surface temperature (LST) is a consequence of changes in land use land cover (LULC). Variation of LST and LULC can be extracted from satellite images in …
In this study, we assessed the impact of Land-Use/Land-Cover (LULC) changes on Land Surface Temperature (LST) in Chattogram Metropolitan Area (CMA) of southeastern …
J Fox, Y Fujita, D Ngidang, N Peluso, L Potter… - Human Ecology, 2009 - Springer
For centuries swidden was an important farming practice found across the girth of Southeast Asia. Today, however, these systems are changing and sometimes disappearing at a pace …
Global biodiversity is declining rapidly, posing a severe threat to ecosystem functions and services. Protected Areas (PAs) can be extremely effective in protecting biodiversity, but …
M de Blécourt, R Brumme, J Xu, MD Corre… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Forest-to-rubber plantation conversion is an important land-use change in the tropical region, for which the impacts on soil carbon stocks have hardly been studied. In montane …