Land cover maps
ERROR AND UNCERTAINTY IN THE ACCURACY ASSESSMENT OF LAND COVER MAPS by Pedro Alexandre Reis Sarmento
... The methods developed in this dissertation incorporate the uncertainty of the reference database in the accuracy assessment of land cover maps. Gopal and Woodcock’s (1994) approach provides the ...
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Historical land-use induced evapotranspiration changes estimated from present-day observations and reconstructed land-cover maps
... the land- cover maps prescribed in each GCM, and the remaining two-thirds by their distinct land surface parameterizations and resultant model sensitivities to LULCC (Boisier et ...
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Integrating Recent Land Cover Mapping Efforts to Update the National Gap Analysis Program's Species Habitat Map
... 2011 land cover maps (USGS GAP ...which land cover transitions impacted the species models the most, the script calculated the land cover transitions that contributed to ...
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COMPARING GLOBAL LAND COVER DATASETS THROUGH THE EAGLE MATRIX LAND COVER COMPONENTS FOR CONTINENTAL PORTUGAL
... scheme. Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) provided by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is one of the most used classification system for the harmonization of different nomenclatures of ...
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Discerning fragmentation dynamics of tropical forest and wetland during reforestation, urban sprawl, and policy shifts.
... the land cover maps for 1977, 1991, and 2000 that were developed by the USDA Forest Service, the Puerto Rico Department of the Natural and Environmental Resources, and the US Geological Survey ...
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Landscape Indices Based Two-Rank Sampling for Land Cover Validation
... global land cover products at 30m resolution ( Globalland30 ) (Chen, ...and land system at global scale(Giri et ...of land cover data is necessary to allow users to evaluate the utility ...
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COBERTURA VEGETAL EM DIFERENTES USOS DO SOLO E DECLIVIDADES DO TERRENO EM BACIAS HIDROGRÁFICAS DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO, BRASIL
... the land cover of a region it is a key information for several ...elaborate land-cover maps using digital satellite images obtained in 1997 from seven watersheds (Piracicaba, ...
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SPATIO-TEMPORAL LAND USELAND COVER CHANGES ANALYSIS AND MONITORING IN THE VALENCIA MUNICIPALITY, SPAIN
... extracting land cover ...Google Maps) and the existing CORINE land cover maps for 1990 and 2000; training samples were gathered from more than 130 points as signatures for each ...
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Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection and Urban Sprawl Analysis of Panamarathupatti Lake, Salem
... The fact that the city is less scattered therefore makes provision of services and infrastructure such as electricity, water, schools, hospitals and roads less complicated in terms of their spatial distribution. However, ...
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A satellite-based global landslide model
... Abstract. Landslides are devastating phenomena that cause huge damage around the world. This paper presents a quasi- global landslide model derived using satellite precipitation data, land-use land ...
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Analysis of Changing Land Use Land Cover in Salinity Affected Coastal Region
... After classification, images were corrected manually by ‘recoding’ the pixel values. Often classes are not accurately classified due to the spectral similarities of two different features in an image. Same value or class ...
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Exploring the association between Trypanosoma cruzi infection in rural communities and environmental changes in the southern Gran Chaco
... in land coverage and the occurrence of at least one person infected with ...the land coverage were estimated as the relative change of a particular type of vegetation (closed forest or cultured vegetation) ...
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USE OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND GEOGRAPHIC OBJECTS FOR CLASSIFYING REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY
... mapping land use and land cover in the northern region of Minas Gerais state, where, in addition to agricultural land, the landscape is dominated by native cerrado, deciduous forests, and ...
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Linking geomorphologic knowledge, RS and GIS techniques for analyzing land cover and land use change: a multitemporal study in the Cointzio watershed, Mexico
... Land cover (LC) and land use (LU) are key elements in describing the terrestrial environment in relation to nature and human ...of land, such as, for example, the quantity and quality of ...
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IMPACT ANALYSIS OF OPEN CAST COAL MINES ON LAND USE/ LAND COVER USING REMOTE SENSING AND GIS TECHNIQUE: A CASE STUDY
... Besides, considerable amount of solid waste piled in the form of huge overburden dumps, destruction and degradation of forest and agricultural lands, and discharge of effluents from mines into nearby water-bodies are ...
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Analysis Land use and Land cover changes and the driving forces
... by land concession such as proximity to permanent water, location near an economic development center, tourism market and vicinity to town that can access to social services and facilities (health clinics, ...
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Tree Productivity Enhanced with Conversion from Forest to Urban Land Covers.
... urban land uses affected both biomass structure and productivity across eastern ...urban land uses held less than half the biomass of adjacent forest expanses with a plot level mean biomass density of ...
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ESTIMATION OF VEGETATION CARBON STOCK IN PORTUGAL USING LAND USE LAND COVER DATA
... Carrão, Caetano (2002) approached a study with the objectives of evaluating if “metrics that capture landscape pattern are independent of variation in spatial data and if they are sensitive to changes in landscape ...
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URBAN CHANGE MONITORING USING GIS AND REMOTE SENSING TOOLS IN KATHMANDU VALLEY (NEPAL)
... existing maps, satellite images with better resolution, or any pre-determined classification ...classified maps were done with the test samples generated in the software against high resolution ...
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Spatial predictive mapping using artificial neural networks
... In the Lusatian Region, Germany, in former lignite mining areas rising groundwater is causing substantial deformations of the surface in waste rock pile areas. These deformations are caused by ground liquefaction ...
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