Land use/cover change is a major global environmental change issue and projecting these changes is essential for the assessment of environmental impacts. In this study, a combined use of satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), and markov chains stochastic modelling techniques were employed in analysing and projecting land use/cover changes. The results indicate that ther...

Landuse and land cover change (LUCC) is regarded as a good indicator that represents the impacts of human activities on the earth’s environment. When the large collection of multi-temporal satellite images has become available, it is possible to study a long-term historical process of land cover change. The Pearl River Delta (PRD) region in southern China is a region where the rapid development...

This data article contains data related to the research article entitled "Global land cover classification based on microwave polarization and gradient ratio (MPGR)" [1] and "Microwave polarization and gradient ratio (MPGR) for global land surface phenology" [2]. This data article presents land surface characteristics and snow cover variation information from sensors like EOS Advanced Microwave...

We present here a new approach to the development of a global land cover map. We combined three existing global land cover maps (MOD12, GLC2000, and UMD) based on the principle that the majority view prevails and validated the resulting map by using information collected as part of the Degree Confluence Project (DCP). We used field survey information gathered by DCP volunteers from 4211 worldwi...

Deforestation due to ever-increasing activities of the growing human population has been an issue of major concern for the global environment. It has been especially serious in the last several decades in the developing countries. A population-deforestation model has been developed by the authors to relate the population density with the cumulative forest loss, which is defined and computed as ...

this study was done to investigation forest cover changes in the mazandaran province in topographic zones. for doing that in the first matched topographic zones and land-use map. after that distribution of forest cover was investigated in plain, lowland, middle land and high land. forest cover changes analyzed in a period of 132 years since the beginning of the destructive activities in the for...

We tested the effectiveness of the Purposive Selection selected using the AVHRR tiles. A random sample was also selected for comparison. The domain AVHRR cover Algorithm (PSA, described in the companion first article) to accurately estimate land cover composition over a type fractions were then corrected using TM maps for the selected tiles, following the method of Walsh and Burk large area. Th...

The main objective of this study was to apply a method for the mapping and analysis of land cover changes in a Mediterranean area in southern Spain (Granada Province). The province of Granada is a complex and very heterogeneous area made up of numerous land covers that are difficult to map due to spectral similarities. The inherent difficulty of the mapping of areas with the abovementioned char...

Accurate and up-to-date global land cover data sets are necessary for various global change research studies including climate change, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem assessment, and environmental modeling. In recent years, substantial advancement has been achieved in generating such data products. Yet, we are far from producing geospatially consistent high-quality data at an operational l...