[PDF] Top 20 High spatial resolution land use and land cover mapping of the Brazilian Legal Amazon in 2008 using Landsat-5TM and MODIS data

... between the map obtained by TerraClass and the validation points using SPOT data was ...76.64% and the Kappa index 0.67. Over half the classification errors (75 ... See full document

... is the portion of energy from the Sun that is reflected by the earth's surface, thus being an important variable that controls climate and energy processes on ...to the ... See full document

... ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to develop a methodology for mapping land use and land cover in the northern region of Minas Gerais state, ... See full document

... TM and radar data fusion in Altamira In the relatively small study area in Altamira, the 2008 Landsat TM multispectral and the Palsar L‑band HH  ... See full document

... reduces the processing time of image analysis and therefore limits the cost of the remote sensing and GIS processes, mainly when related to regional ...capabilities ... See full document

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

... Study of rainfall and runoff for any area and modeling it, is one of the important aspects for planning and development of water ...resources. The development ... See full document

... Finally, the Group A watersheds, namely Cupa, Res and Tor, underwent little LCLU change in 2009 and no significant differences were measured between the years ...studied. The Res ... See full document

... for high-yield agriculture management and global and national geographical conditions ...applied in land cover information extraction and agricultural ...dominant ... See full document

... to the uncertainties, there are a few shortcom- ings inherent in our ...effects of LULCC, such as changes to surface latent and sensible heat fluxes and to the hydrological cy- ... See full document

... Analyses of changes in land coverage at the regional scale are usually performed to measure the impact of hu- mans on the ...populations of wild T. infestans have ... 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 ... See full document

... Nesta mesma análise realizada por Alves (2001, p. 262), sobre o desfl orestamento na Amazônia entre os períodos de 1991-1994, 1994-1997, e 1991-1997, fi cou demonstrado que 90% das taxas ocorreram dentro dos 100 km dos ... See full document

... stability of the results, the 70 percent training data was randomly sampled 100 ...times. In other words, the results are tested by running the model 100 times with ... See full document

... with the Definiens ...segmentation and algorithmic clas- sification with fuzzy and Boolean ...combinations of spectral, textural, and contextual/topological information. In ... See full document

... about the Anopheles species of the coastal areas of French Guiana, or their spatiotemporal distribution or environmental ...determinants. The present study aimed to (1) document ... See full document

... for the last 16 years caused changes in land cover of the Gilgel Abbay watershed, Lake Tana basin, ...Ethiopia. The effects of the land cover ... See full document

... to the standard multi-class supervised approach: the binarisation strategy and one-class learning algorithms ...decompose the multi-class problem in a series of small binary ... See full document

... Therefore, the scientific community has agreed that fighting against Amazon deforestation is a matter of national security (Machado, 2009; Sawyer, ...promoting the conservation of ... See full document

... Land use planning must pay more attention to tourism, and adopt combined spatial approaches, and monitor quality indicators to evaluate initiatives, learn with past results, and ... See full document