The rapid growth in urban population is seen to create a need for the development of more urban infrastructures. In order to meet this need, natural surfaces such as vegetation are been replaced with non-vegetated surfaces such as asphalt and bricks which has the ability to absorb heat and release it later. This change in land cover is seen to increase the land surface temperature. Previous stu...

Land-cover change is a major component of global change (Foley et al., 2005). Many forms of land-cover change, such as deforestation and urbanization, are directly associated with land use. Other land-cover changes, such as melting of permafrost, may be indirectly associated with human activity via anthropogenically induced climate change. Further changes in land cover, such as the expansion of...

Recent decades have witnessed increasing human disruption and the acceleration of fragile natural habitats, especially in coal mining areas developing countries or regions, which will inevitably lead to sharp land use cover change (LUCC). Most LUCC models focus more on research “land” than “human” human-land coupled systems, while simulation prediction involving stakeholders are still deficient...

This paper presents an approach to modeling land-cover change as a function of land-use change. We argue that, in order to model the link between socio-economic change and changes in forest cover in a region that is experiencing residential and recreational development and agricultural abandonment, land-use and landcover change need to be represented as separate processes. Forest-cover change i...

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 ...

given the critical role played by urban green spaces and the emergence of remote sensing as avaluable natural resource management tool, this study sought to identify trends in green spaces within thecontext of south africa’s transition period (1990 - 2000). using the city of port elizabeth as a case study, threesets of landsat - 5 thematic mapper images (1990, 1995 and 2000) were geo-processed,...

This paper illustrates the result of land use/cover change in Dhaka Metropolitan of Bangladesh using topographic maps and multi-temporal remotely sensed data from 1960 to 2005. The Maximum likelihood supervised classification technique was used to extract information from satellite data, and post-classification change detection method was employed to detect and monitor land use/cover change. De...

this study emphasized the ability of genetic algorithm and cellular automate to simulate urban land use changes by integrating adaptive model. the most important part of modeling is to define transition rules.  in this research, a cellular automata model in dinamica ego software was used coupled with genetic algorithm. according to disability of the software for manipulating large number of var...

Based on Landsat–7ETM + images of 2007 and 2012 Landsat–8 2018, this study took Fuyang City, Anhui Province (Yingzhou District, Yingdong Yingquan District) as the research object, made a quantitative analysis land use/cover change in City from to 2018 with Environment for Visualizing Images (ENVI) software. According data use types three phases, article analyzes development trend various main r...