This document details the structural definition, development process, and functional flow of the MODIS Land-Cover Product. The Land Cover and Land-Cover Change Parameters were proposed by the MODIS Land Team, with Team Member Alan Strahler leading the effort. The Land Cover Parameter is a 1-km product provided on a quarterly basis beginning about one year following the acquisition of a global d...

Analyzing spatiotemporal characteristics of land-cover (LC) change is important for assessing environmental consequences of urban growth and supporting land management and planning. Less attention, however, has been given to the comparison between land-cover change patterns in developing and developed countries. In this study, Xuzhou city and Dortmund city region were selected as study areas. M...

Suspended sediment concentration of a river can provide very important perspective on erosion or soil loss of one river basin ecosystem. The changes of land use and land cover, such as deforestation or afforestation, affect sediment yield process of a catchment through changing the hydrological cycle of the area. A sediment rating curve can describe the average relation between discharge and su...

Guangzhou city in South China has experienced an accelerated urban development since the 1980s. This paper examines the impact of the urban development on urban heat islands through a historical analysis of urban-rural air temperature differences. Remote sensing techniques were applied to derive information on land use/cover and land surface temperatures and to assess the thermal response patte...

land cover is one of basic data layers in geographic information system for physical planning and environmentalmonitoring. digital image classification is generally performed to produce land cover maps from remote sensing data,particularly for large areas. in the present study the multispectral image from irs liss-iii image along with ancillary datasuch as vegetation indices, principal componen...

Irrespective of several attempts to land use/cover mapping at local, regional, or global scales, mapping of vegetation physiognomic types is limited and challenging. The main objective of the research is to produce an accurate nationwide vegetation physiognomic map by using automated machine learning approach with the support of reference data. A time-series of the multi-spectral and multi-indi...

Land cover of Finnish Lapland was classified to 16 land cover classes using optical IRS LISS, Spot XS and MODIS satellite images, ancillary GIS data and decision tree classifier. The aim of this study was to test decision tree classifier for land cover classification and study the effects of its parameters to classification result. In the best case, the overall accuracy was about 68% for all 16...

Climate change is expected to alter vegetation and carbon cycle processes, with implications for ecosystems. Notably, understanding the sensitivity of vegetation to the anomalies of precipitation and temperature over different land cover classes and the corresponding temporal response is essential for improved climate prediction. In this paper, we analyze vegetation response to hydroclimatic fo...

We present a spatially explicit Landscape Fire-Succession Model (LFSM) developed to represent Mediterranean Basin landscapes and capable of integrating modules and functions that explicitly represent human activity. Plant-functional types are used to represent spatial and temporal competition for resources (water and light) in a rule-based modelling framework. Vegetation dynamics are represente...

Urbanization is developing unprecedentedly on a global scale. One of the chief repercussions of urbanization, caused by man-made alterations in land-use/land-cover (LULC), is the formation of urban heat islands. Albeit, differences among landscape structures and its accompanied effects on the environment are mostly neglected. Accordingly, the main objective of this study is to survey the variou...