The recent multi-year droughts in California have highlighted the heightened risk of longer and more intense droughts, thus increasing interest understanding potential impacts for major economic activities, such as agriculture. This study examines changes cropping pattern California’s Central Valley between 2007 2016 response to two consecutive (2007–2009 2012–2016), factors driving these chang...

Environmental change in terms of land use and climatic changes are posing a serious threat to species distributions and extinctions. Thus in order to predict and mitigate against the effects of environmental change both drivers should be accounted for. Two endemic plant species in the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Crocus cyprius and Ophrys kotschyi, were used as a case study. We have coupled ...

The ASTER sensor onboard NASA’s Earth observing satellite Terra is an optical remote sensor comprised of 14 spectral bands ranging from the visible to thermal infrared region. With its multispectral bands the sensor bears the potential to provide data for both a detailed land use classification of heterogeneously vegetated areas. This study evaluates the potential of ASTER data for land use cla...

in land use planning, mapping the present land use / land cover situation is a necessary tool for determining the current condition and for identifying land use trends. in this study, in order to provide a land use/ land cover map for ilam watershed, the irs-1c image data from 25th april 2006 were used. initial qualitative evaluation on data showed no significant radiometric error. ortho-rectif...

due to the importance of the role of land use changes on runoff changes, several studies have taken place to develop models with simulating land use changes. in this study, the l-thia model was used for estimating the runoff made by land use changes in chalousrud watershed. results of runoff modeling using l-thia model showed that runoff depth increased from 422.98mm to 809.168mm during 1984 to...

This study investigates the biophysical impacts of human-induced land use change (LUC) on the regional climate of North America, using the fifth generation Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5). To this end, two simulations are performed with CRCM5 using different land cover datasets, one corresponding to the potential vegetation and the other corresponding to current land use, spanning the 1...