An automatic method for land cover mapping and for detecting forest change has been designed for high resolution couples of image. The work is done on 20x20 km samples of 30 m resolution Landsat imagery. The methodology has been developed for two dates extracts but several couple of images can be compared. An automatic multi-date segmentation is applied on extracts pairs. Segmentation parameter...

There are growing demands for detailed and accurate land cover maps in land system research and planning. Macro-scale land cover maps normally cannot satisfy the studies that require detailed land cover maps at micro scales. In the meantime, applying conventional pixel-based classification methods in classifying high-resolution aerial imagery is ineffective to develop high accuracy land-cover m...

Recently, there is an increasing demand for information on actual land use/land cover (LU/LC) from planning, administration and scientific institutions. Remote sensing combined with GIS tools can give quick reply providing timely information products in different geometric and thematic scales. Anyway the effort to make the land use map by visual interpretation is still very high and cannot keep...

Ecoregional stratification has been proposed for sampling and mapping land-cover composition and pattern over time. Using a wall-to-wall land-cover map of the United States, we evaluated geographic scales of variance for nine landscapelevel and eight forest pattern indices, and compared stratification by ecoregions, administrative units, and watersheds. Ecoregions accounted for 65 percent to 75...

The importance of accurate and timely information describing the nature and extent of land resources and changes over time is increasing, especially in mountainous areas. We have developed a methodology to map and monitor land cover change using multitemporal Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and ASTER data in Zagros mountains of Iran for 1990, 1998, and 2006. Land-use/cover mapping is achieved thro...

An ever increasing population associated with various other factors has put tremendous pressure on the environment and its respective resources. Hence it has become necessary to study the human interactions with its surrounding environment to facilitate sustainable developmental plans. Land use and land cover is the most dominant factor to study these interactions. Remote Sensing technology has...

Land cover derived from remotely sensed products is an important input to a number of different global, regional and national scale applications including resource assessments and economic land use models. During the last decade three global land cover datasets have been created, i.e. the GLC-2000, MODIS and GlobCover, but comparison studies have shown that there are large spatial discrepancies...

ses, the classification procedures generally used to produce a ~ ~ t i f i ~ i ~ l neural networks are attractive for use in the classiland-cover map are "hard" techniques which force allocation fication of land cover from remotely sensed data. In common to One class. Moreover, depending on the nature of the mixwith other classification approaches, artificial neural netture and its composite sp...

Landscape epidemiology has made significant strides recently, driven in part by increasing availability of land cover data derived from remotely-sensed imagery. Using an example from a study of land cover effects on hantavirus dynamics at an Atlantic Forest site in eastern Paraguay, we demonstrate how automated classification methods can be used to stratify remotely-sensed land cover for studie...