[PDF] Top 20 Potential climate forcing of land use and land cover change

... effects of LULCC, such as changes to surface latent and sensible heat fluxes and to the hydrological cy- cle, that impact climate (Defries et ...Lawrence and Chase, ...regional ... See full document

... effective use of spatial features, such as textures, especially when higher spatial resolution images, such as Spot and QuickBird, are ...fusion of multi‑resolution images, such as Landsat ETM  ... See full document

... environmental change, some issues related to land-use land-cover (hereafter LULC) and its change (LULCC) over time are becoming increasingly recognized (Lambin et ... See full document

... forest cover. They attributed this to the fact that the land use and land cover changes were not uniform across the catchment and there was a significant number of ... See full document

... Using land use and land cover change locations identified by the MacConnell and CCDC maps, we stratified field plots into three urban intensity categories; low density ... See full document

... Object-based change detection is a powerful analysis tool for remote sensing data, but few studies consider the potential of temporal semivariogram indices for mapping land-cover ... See full document

... analysis of land use land cover classification of multitemporal satellite data it is observed that there are enormous changes especially in vegetation and agricultural ... See full document

... number of uncertainty-related issues in this study need to be addressed and ...First and foremost is the unavailability of map accuracy assessment for all maps other than 2000 ...combining ... See full document

... biophysical and socio-economic factors had significantly influenced the three LULC conversion models that can be concluded that: 1) forest to shrub conversion the socio-economic factors had an effect on the forest ... See full document

... forest/land use land cover map using satellite remote sensing is an established technology (Mulders, ...such Land use/Land cover Map was prepared by visual ... See full document

... area and to avoid bias, a mask was generated to eliminate the classes “no data”, “swampy meadow” and “water surface” ...vegetation cover loss (from forest to the other classes, from savannas to ... See full document

... uncertain of the directly estimated terms in the global carbon budget, and this un- certainty propagates into estimating the residual ...estimates: of the 13 studies on LULCC emissions in Houghton et ... See full document

... semi-arid climate and is prone to frequent droughts, crops in previous years could be cultivated only in a single season ...Construction of an embankment was initiated in 1974-1975 by the State ... See full document

... farming, and inadequate flow, particularly during the dry season, is frequently problematic ...years and has become a standard method used by many ...recharge and drainage to stream flow, as well ... See full document

... showed and confirmed the superior concentration of carbon stock on forest related ...concentration of carbon stock in between 65% and 67% on forest lands with the second largest concentration ... See full document

... area of Guyanese Complex (Domain Structural Anauá-Jatapu). The topography of the area varies from flat to undulating, predominating the gently undulating areas (IBGE ...the climate of this ... See full document

... results of this study confirm that changes in land cover due to a growing population creates a complex phenomenon that involves the increase in many measurable variables, including impervious areas, ... See full document

... development of earth observing system, remote sensing has been gradually applied to land use/cover change detection (Ridd and Liu 1998; Zhang and Seto 2011) , and ... See full document

... high and low flows in the Pingjiang watershed than in the Xi- angshui ...forest change and climate, we believe that the difference in the responses of high and low flows were ... See full document

... With climate change ahead, land use management decisions rely more often on process-based models to provide information about climate change impacts on the productivity of ... See full document