Land-surface processes are one of the important drivers for weather and climate systems over the tropics. Realistic representation of land surface processes in mesoscale models over the region will help accurate simulation of numerical forecasts. The present study examines the influence of Land Use/ Land Cover Change (LULC) on the forecasting of cyclone intensity and track prediction using Meso...

We studied the land-cover data used by the regional climate model REMO and the land surface model JSBACH, for Finland and surrounding areas. To date, the land-cover data determining REMO’s surface parameterisations have originated from the Global Ecosystem classification of the Global Land Cover Characteristics (GLCC-GEC) database. The same database has also been used as basis for prescribed pl...

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YUAN, HUI. Development and Evaluation of Advanced Classification Systems using Remotely Sensed Data for Accurate Land-Use/Land-Cover Mapping. (Under the direction of Dr. Siamak Khorram.) Our general objective in this research was to design, develop, implement, and evaluate advanced classification approaches for more accurate land-use/land-cover mapping using remotely sensed data. The overall re...

Citizens are increasingly becoming involved in data collection, whether for scientific purposes, to carry out micro-tasks, or as part of a gamified, competitive application. In some cases, volunteered data collection overlaps with that of mapping agencies, e.g., the citizen-based mapping of features in OpenStreetMap. LUCAS (Land Use Cover Area frame Sample) is one source of authoritative in-sit...

Tropical ecosystems play an important role in the environment. They provide multiple ecosystem services, such as carbon capture and sequestration, food supply, climate regulation. Studying land use cover change makes it possible to understand land’s alterations associated with deforestation, degradation, erosion, soil desertification, biodiversity loss. The objective of this study is evaluate d...