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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Land Use/Land Cover Change"”.
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Simulating Land Use Land Cover Change Using Data Mining and Machine Learning Algorithms
… are to: (1) review the breadth and depth of land use land cover (LUCC) issues that are being addressed by the land change science community by discussing how an existing model, Purdue's Land Transformation Model (LTM), has been used to better understand these very important issues; (2) …
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Linking Local Knowledge and Satellite-Derived Land-Use/Land-Cover Change Information In Krabi Province, Thailand
… conversion in three coastal communities in Thailand. It presents a methodology that could potentially aid coastal communities in determining sustainable land use conversion approaches by considering the viewpoint of villagers. A remote sensing analysis of Landsat satellite images from 1989, 2001 …
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A remote sensing assessment of irrigation land use land cover change in the Sokoto Rima River Basin, Nigeria
… ground yield and remote sensing data. Decadal land use land cover (LU/LC) change detection was conducted using remotely sensed data from Landsat 4,5,7 ETM for 1988, 1998 and Landsat 8 OLI for 2018 using a digital classification and a cloud-based classification provided by Google Earth Engine …
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Examining Land Use/Land Cover Change and Potential Causal Factors in the Context of Climate Change in Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal
… growing tourism and global warming, the fragile landscape of the Himalayas is under immense pressure because of rapid land cover changes in developing countries like Nepal. Remotely sensed data combined with ethnographic knowledge are useful tools for studying such changes. The quantitative …
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Assessment of Watershed Condition and Vulnerability to Forecasted Land-Use/Land-Cover Change in the Northwestern Great Plains of Western South Dakota
… condition and watershed vulnerability to land-use/landcover (LULC) change under multiple scenarios of future development. We used U.S. EPA’s Analytical Tools Interface for Landscape Assessment (ATtILA) to analyze landscape spatial data to determine the condition of wadeable, perennial …
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Plant Species and Functional Diversity along Altitudinal Gradients, Southwest Ethiopian Highlands
… are one of such striking patterns in the landscape. Despite its historical and ecological importance as a heuristic natural experimental site for development of ecological theories, the emergent patterns and mechanisms that structure them are poorly understood. This is partly because of …
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Exploring Indonesia's Capital City Relocation As a Model for Multidimensional Conflict Resolution
… observation, document analysis, survey data, land-use/land-cover change assessment, and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). SSM tools, including rich picture analysis, CATWOE, Root Definition, a Conceptual Activity Model, and 3E indicators, were employed to compare normative governance assumptions …
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Identifying Biophysical Drivers of Evapotranspiration for Forest Cover in a Mountainous Region
… for understanding the impacts of climate change and land-use/land-cover change on water availability, ecosystem health, and agricultural productivity. However, point-based, field-measured ET data often lacks sufficient spatial and temporal coverage, especially in complex mountainous …
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Phytosociology, History and Diversity in Farmer-Managed Landscapes on the Tonle Sap Floodplain, Cambodia
… Tonle Sap floodplain in central Cambodia is a landscape characterized by dynamism, both ecological and social. Annual floods and rainfall vary in timing, duration and intensity from year to year. Patterns of burning, grazing, and agricultural expansion and contraction all leave their imprint on …
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Regional summer climate variability and change over North America in the 20th Century
… forcings: increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG) and Land Use/Land Cover Change (LULC). The objective of this thesis is to quantify the relative impacts that these two anthropogenic forcings have had on summer climate over North America in the course of the 20th century. …
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Assessing annual urban change and its impacts on evapotranspiration
Land Use Land Cover Change (LULCC) is a major component of global environmental change, which could result in huge impacts on biodiversity, water yield and quality, climate, soil condition, food security and human welfare. Of all the LULCC types, urbanization is considered to be the most impactful …
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Understanding the relationship between land use/land cover and malaria in Nepal
Malaria is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity globally. Land use/land cover (LULC) change have been found to affect the transmission and distribution of malaria in other regions, but no study has attempted to examine such relationships in Nepal. Therefore, this study was conducted …
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Vegetation change in response to climate extremes in Limpopo Province, South Africa
An increase in the level of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere, combined with climatic variability, is likely to bring about extreme climate events, such as tropical storms, heat waves, floods, and droughts. In addition, a small change in the variance and mean of climate parameters might …
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Land use change and natural Araucaria forest degradation : northeastern misiones - Argentina
… was characteristic of the northeast Misiones landscape, covering around 210.000 hectares. The broad variety of possible uses for araucarian timber, as well as a growing need for agricultural land, however, leads to the circumstance that since the middle of the past century these forests were …
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Mapping and Assessment of Land Use/Land Cover Using Remote Sensing and GIS in North Kordofan State, Sudan
… mass immigration. Spatial data on dynamics of land use and land cover is scarce and/or almost nonexistent. The study area in the North Kordofan State is located in the centre of Sudan and falls in the Sahelian eco-climatic zone. The region generally yields reasonable harvests of rainfed crops …
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Dynamics and drivers of land use land cover changes in Bangladesh
Land is scarce in Bangladesh: Bangladesh occupies ~0.03 % of world’s land area, but supports over ~2% of human population. This high population to land ratio, combined with socioeconomic development has placed tremendous pressure on Bangladesh’s land resources for food, feed, and fuel. This study …
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Near-surface Atmospheric Response to Simulated Changes in Land-cover Vegetation Fraction, and Soil Moisture over Western Kentucky
A series of land-use-land-cover-change (LULCC) based sensitivity experiments, including changes in vegetation type, fractional vegetation (FV), and soil moisture (SM), over Western Kentucky were conducted to investigate atmospheric response to land-use. The choice of land-use for this study was …
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Integrated Modeling and Optimization of Stormwater Control Measures for Sustainable Watershed Management Under Urbanization and Changing Rainfall Patterns
Rapid urbanization and climate change (CC) are altering the natural hydrological cycle, contributing to more frequent and severe flooding. These changes are particularly pronounced in mixed urban–rural watersheds, where diverse land uses complicate hydrologic modeling and stormwater planning. To …
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Understanding changes in mangrove forests and the implications to community livelihood and resource management in Kenya
… is an intricate relationship between resource use and degradation and resource-dependent communities. Dependency on resources can lead to an ecosystem's degradation if management disregards local people's needs. Degraded mangroves are more vulnerable to environmental changes and may be less …
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Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, Montana, USA from 1992-2011
In recent decades land use and land cover change (LULCC) has occurred throughout the Intermountain West. The Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (CCE) extends along the Rocky Mountains adjacent to the Canada-U.S. International border. In the U.S. portion of the CCE, located in northwestern Montana, …