Widespread anthropogenic land cover change over the last five centuries has influenced the global climate system through both biogeochemical and biophysical processes. Models indicate that warming from carbon emissions associated with land cover conversion has been partially offset by cooling from elevated albedo, but considerable uncertainty remains partly because of uncertainty in model treat...

Remote sensing has the potential to provide estimates of important inputs for the land process models, for instance the land cover type, the soil moisture and the LAI. Such models can provide information that is crucial for a number of applications such as flood and drought prediction, crop irrigation scheduling, and meteorology. Also, land cover maps provide fundamental information to many asp...

Urban ecosystem assessments increasingly rely on widely available map products, such as the U.S. Geological Service (USGS) National Land Cover Database (NLCD), and datasets that use generic classification schemes to detect and model large-scale impacts of land-cover change. However, utilizing existing map products or schemes without identifying relevant urban class types such as semi-natural, y...

Land use and Land cover form an integral part of all modelling initiatives in case of global change studies and hence, there arises a need for time-series data of land use/cover. As such, we need suitable models to explain the changes in the land use patterns and the resulting land cover and also to forecast them. The model proposed here deals with the development and application of a new conce...

Wind erosion is a complex process influenced by different factors. Most of these factors are stable over time, but land use/cover and land management practices are changing gradually. Therefore, this research investigates the impact of changing land use/cover and land management on wind erosion potential in southern Iran. We used remote sensing data (Landsat ETM+ and Landsat 8 imagery of 2004 a...

The relationship between topography, land use, and topsoil moisture storage is investigated for a small catchment with undulating deep loess hilslopes in the south of the Netherlands. For a period of 10 months, soil moisture profiles have been measured weekly at 15 locations throughout the catchment. A Generalized Additive Model was employed to find relationships between the various factors inf...

change is important because it is the only way to evaluate the Abstract consequences of current and recent land-cover trends for the An approach to simulating land-cover change based on pairs of future fragmentation of the landscape. classified images is presented. The method conditions the Transition probability models have been used extensively simulations on three sources of information: an ...

Olomouc is a unique and complex landmark with widespread forestation and land use. This research work was conducted to assess important and complex land use change trajectories in Olomouc region. Multi-temporal satellite data from 1991, 2001 and 2013 were used to extract land use/cover types by object oriented classification method. To achieve the objectives, three different aspects were used: ...