Land cover changes and spatial planning alignment in Ciamis Regency and its proliferated regions

Land use and land cover spatiotemporal dynamic pattern and predicting changes using integrated CA-Markov model

Analyzing the process of land use and cover changes during long periods of time and predicting the future changes is highly important and useful for the land use managers. In this study, the land use maps in the Ardabil plain in north-west part of Iran for four periods (1989, 1998, 2009 and 2013) are extracted and analyzed through remote sensing technique, using the land-sat satellite images. T...

Compactness for Regionalization and its Application in Land-Use Planning

Monitoring and assessment of land use/land cover changes in Kashkan basin using futures studies approach in managing ecosystem services

Land use/cover change is one of the main factors in environmental changes. The changes directly affect the value of ecosystem services. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the effect of land use/land cover change in the Kashkan area on its ecosystem services. This research was carried out in three stages, including the analysis of land cover changes, prediction of changes, and carbon st...

Modelling Land Use Land Cover Changes Using Cellular Automata in a Geo-spatial Environment

. Model is an abstraction or simplification of real world. From early days of our childhood we learn (subconsciously) from models and play with models. Playing with guns, cars and dolls, making houses with sands, are some of the examples, which we never realize in our daily life. Models are being used as a very powerful learning tool. They are not only static like road maps but they can be dyna...

Land Cover Change and Soil Fertility Decline in Tropical Regions

Land cover changes influence the biogeochemistry, hydrology, and climate of the earth. Studies that assessed land cover changes at the global scale mostly focused on: deforestation, cropland expansion, dry land degradation, urbanisation, pasture expansion, and agricultural intensification. For the assessment, remotely sensed land-cover data, census data, and expert knowledge were used. In tropi...