Exploring how human activity impacts land use/cover change (LUCC) is a hot research topic in the field of geography and sustainability management. Researchers have primarily used socioeconomic variables to measure human activity. However, the human activity indexes mainly based on socioeconomic variables have a spatial resolution that is coarser than traditional LUCC datasets, which hinders a d...

doi: 10.5829/idosi.ijee.2015.06.01.08 bridges and roads). In the course of carrying out these activities, the environment is degraded and thereby damaging the ecosystem and the landscape, and offsetting the already fragile ecological balance [1]. Obviously, LUCC studies provide a great and significance information to strengthen the protection of land resources, determent unreasonable exploitati...

During the last decades, a diversity of models has been developed to simulate future land use and land cover changes (LUCC). In this paper, we compared four modeling tools: CLUE-S, DINAMICA EGO, CA_MARKOV and Land Change Modeler. We assessed the methods and tools available for each modeling tool within these models based on the six steps necessary for a generic framework of LUCC modeling: 1) es...

Policy has long been considered one of the major driving forces for land-use/cover change. However, research on the interactions between land-use/cover change (LUCC) and relevant policies remains limited. The agropastoral ecotone is a typical area of policy implementation and LUCC. Therefore, this study integrates the use of multisource and multiresolution remote sensing and topographic and fie...

doi: 10.5829/idosi.ijee.2015.06.01.08 bridges and roads). In the course of carrying out these activities, the environment is degraded and thereby damaging the ecosystem and the landscape, and offsetting the already fragile ecological balance [1]. Obviously, LUCC studies provide a great and significance information to strengthen the protection of land resources, determent unreasonable exploitati...

A common method to assess land use/cover change (LUCC) is the comparison of digital maps of an area within a geographic information system (GIS). However, positional errors of the maps involved in the comparison affect this assessment and much of the change shown by means of this comparison may be an artifact due to these errors. This note presents a simple method to improve change estimates by...

In this study, the relationship between land use and land cover change (LUCC) and variation of groundwater table and quality in the SanGong Oasis Region in the western China is investigated using a geospatial approach. Specifically, the interactions among groundwater, surface water, and LUCC are analyzed through the utilization of geographical information system (GIS), remote sensing (RS) image...

Freshwater ecosystems are among the most threatened on Earth, facing environmental and anthropogenic pressures often surpassing their terrestrial counterparts. Land use and land cover change (LUCC) such as degradation and fragmentation of the terrestrial landscape negatively impacts aquatic ecosystems. Satellite imagery allows for an impartial assessment of the past to determine habitat alterat...

Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) is a central theme of global environmental change research (Turner II 1994, Vitousek et al. 1997). The LUCC project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IBGP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) aims at stimulating and coordinating research on land use change (Lambin et al. 2000, Turner II et...