[1] We use statistical techniques to quantify the effect of interannual variations in vegetation within land covers on surface temperature in North America and Eurasia from satellite measures of surface greenness and ground based meteorological observations. During the winter, reductions in the extent of snow cover cause (in a statistical sense) temperature to rise. During the summer, increases...

purpose: one of the major problems in the agriculture field is the land use change that has been growing recently and disturbing the balance of agricultural products in long term. there are many factors that affect farmers' willingness to change the use of land. in this regard, the main objective of this study is to identify factors which affect the agricultural land use change in rural areas i...

Information on a well-scale urban land cover is important for a number of urban planning practices involving tree shade mapping, green space analysis, urban hydrologic modeling and urban land use mapping. In this study, an urban land cover dataset received from the database of UCI (University of California at Irvine) machine learning was used as the urban land cover data. This dataset is the ur...

From winter 2009 to spring 2010, due to decreasing precipitation and high temperature, Southwest China experienced the worst meteorological drought in 60 years. The drought has impacted large areas of Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi and Sichuan provinces. In this paper, climate data (precipitation and temperature) and SPOT VGT Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data were combined with land ...

Effect of seasonal dynamics of vegetation cover on land surface models: a case study of NOAH LSM over a savanna farm land in eastern Burkina Faso, West Africa F. Bagayoko, S. Yonkeu, and N. C. van de Giesen Water Resources Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft, Stevinweg 1, 2600 GA Delft, P.O. Box 5048, The Netherlands Center for Development Research (ZEF), Universi...

The area of Huelva, in the South of Spain, is a well-known case of human pressure on the natural environment. In Huelva, National Parks, like Doñana, and industrial and tourist zones coexist in difficult balance. The Regional Ministry of Andalusia is commissioned to assure the preservation of the natural resources in this part of Spain although its cost can be high in time and money. Remote sen...

Recent development has identified the benefits of using hyper-temporal satellite time series data for land cover change detection and classification in South Africa. In particular, the monitoring of human settlement expansion in the Limpopo province is of relevance as it is the one of the most pervasive forms of land-cover change in this province which covers an area of roughly 125 000km. In th...