Statewide land cover change detection analysis provides a useful tool for conservation planning and environmental monitoring and addresses issues of habitat fragmentation and urban sprawl. Furthermore, using historical and recent land cover data offers two perspectives on landscape dynamics. To this end, the first alliance level land cover map of Kansas recently completed by the KARS Program wa...

Temporal trajectories of land-cover change provide important information on landscape dynamics that are critical to our understanding of complex human–environment adaptive systems. The increasing availability of long time series of satellite images, especially the recent free release of multi-decadal Landsat satellite archive, presents a great opportunity to improve our ability to detect land-c...

Inventories of past and present land cover changes form the basis for future conservation strategies and landscape management. In this study Landsat images of a mountainous area in Mexico are used in an objectbased and pixel-based image classification. The land cover categories with the highest individual classification accuracies determined with these two methods are extracted and merged into ...

We present a methodology to detect terrain mobilization in the years following a fire using multitemporal Landsat TM imagery. Furthermore, we show the spectral evolution of the land cover since fire occurrence, and analyze the feasibility of detecting the type of land cover a number of years after fire occurrence. The methodology developed here is a spectral change identification technique base...

the growing population and increasing socio-economic necessities creates a pressure on land use/land cover. nowadays, land use change detection using remote sensing data provides quantitative and timely information for management and evaluation of natural resources. this study investigates the land use changes in part of hableh rood watershed of iran using landsat 7 and 8 (sensor etm+ and oli) ...

REDD+ implementation requires robust, consistent, accurate and transparent national land cover historical data and monitoring systems. Satellite imagery is the only data source with enough periodicity to provide consistent land cover information in a cost-effective way. The main aim of this paper is the creation of an operational framework for monitoring land cover dynamics based on Landsat ima...

The study of land cover change is an important problem in the Earth science domain because of its impacts on local climate, radiation balance, biogeochemistry, hydrology, and the diversity and abundance of terrestrial species. Data mining and knowledge discovery techniques can aid this effort by efficiently discovering patterns that capture complex interactions between ocean temperature, air pr...

We developed a Sub-pixel Imperviousness Change Detection (SICD) approach to detect urban land-cover changes using Landsat and high-resolution imagery. The sub-pixel percent imperviousness was mapped for two dates (09 March 1993 and 11 March 2001) over western Georgia using a regression tree algorithm. The accuracy of the predicted imperviousness was reasonable based on a comparison using indepe...

Land use/cover change detection is very important in the application of remote sensing. In the case of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) acquisitions for change detection, the standard detector or change measure is based on the ratio of images. However, this measure is sensitive to the speckle effect. In remote sensing applications, change detection is the process of identifying the differences in...