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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"NATIONAL LAND"”.
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A method for identifying commission and omission errors for cultivated crops in the national land cover dataset (NLCD) 2006
<p>The United States National Land Cover Database (NLCD), developed from the early 1990s to 2006, is an important resource for monitoring the nation’s land cover change. In this research, I developed a method that identifies and analyzes the commission and omission errors for two agricultural …
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Analysis and Comparison of a Detailed Land Cover Dataset versus the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) in Blacksburg, Virginia
… have completed accuracy assessments on the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD), little research has utilized a detailed digitized land cover dataset, like that available for the Town of Blacksburg, for this comparison. This study aims to evaluate the information available from a detailed land …
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An Analysis of the Political Dynamics that Influenced the Process of Adopting the 2016 National Land Laws in Malawi: A Gender Perspective
… that emerged in the formulation of the 2016 land legislation in Malawi influenced the gendered outcomes. It highlights the complexity of the policymaking process that was shaped by divergent interests and power dynamics of the stakeholders. It argues that although the interests and agenda …
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A Comparison of Imperviousness Derived from a Detailed Land Cover Dataset (DLCD) versus the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) at Two Time Periods
To address accuracy concerns of the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD), this case study compares impervious surface from the NLCD to a Detailed Land Cover Dataset (DLCD) for the Town of Blacksburg, Virginia over two time periods (2005/2006 and 2011) at spatial aggregation scales (fine to coarse) …
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New applications of STEPL watershed modeling of CAFO feedlot runoff and implications of surface water impacts
… and phosphorus, among other pollutants, by land use for a watershed. The Dry Creek Watershed Basin of Sioux County, Iowa, is delineated to capture runoff from large CAFO cattle feedlots. Feedlots are classified by digitizing land use data in ArcGIS, in order to estimate pollutant loads from …
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Wearing an amulet: Land titling and tenure (in) security in Tanzania
Land reform in Tanzania introduced a new National Land Policy (1995) and Land Laws (1999), changing the way land is governed and administrated. The land reform process promoted formalisation of customary land rights as a means to tenure security for the citizens. This ethnography found that …
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Local-level institutions and common property resource management in the Khorixas regional constituency, Namibia
… of the Rural Water Supply Policy and the National Land Policy and assesses their implications with regards to management of land and water in communal areas. In addition, the socio-economic conditions of the Khorixas constituency and their appropriateness for local-level management are …
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Geographic information system as a map and survey database for a selected area
… non-digital material. The establishment of national land information systems and data sharing via the networking of databases is receiving wide attention. An investigation was done to establish the spatial data suppliers and the data users, the types of data supplied, and the requirements. …
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Determining Heat Island Response to Varying Land Cover Changes Between 2004 and 2017 Within the City of Reno, Nevada
… of this research was to investigate the role of land cover changes through time in influencing spatial variability of the surface urban heat island of the metropolitan area of Reno-Sparks, Nevada. Free and widely available thermal data from Landsat 7 ETM+ (Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus) sensor …
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Vulnerability to jökulhlaup hazards: A case study of the Þjórsá floodplain, Southern Iceland
… impacts of jökulhlaups. One area in southern Iceland, located around the Þjórsá River and bordered by the Hvítá and Rangá rivers, is particularly vulnerable to the effects of a potential jökulhlaup. Vulnerability of the human, natural, and built environments was investigated, analysed, and mapped …
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Challenges to E-Conveyancing in Kenya: Case Study of the Ministry of Lands
… in Kenya with a case study of the Ministry of Lands in Kenya. The objective of the study was to find out why despite several attempts e-conveyancing has not been successfully implemented in Kenya, and whether the prevailing Legal Framework enables e-conveyancing in Kenya. The study adopted case …
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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, …
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Lyme Disease Emergence in Virginia: An Examination of the Demographic and Environmental Variables Correlated to the Spatial Pattern of Disease Incidence
… of the disease. This research studies Virginia's landscape-level habitats to explore demographic and environmental variables related to the spread of Lyme disease. The land cover data came from the National Land Cover Database (2006), demographic data came from the U.S. census (2010), and Lyme …
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Detecting Impervious Cover with Artificial Lighting in Astronaut Photography from the International Space Station
… of nighttime astronaut imagery from the International Space Station (ISS) to detect impervious cover. The artificial lighting emitted from a city’s nightscape is used as a proxy for imperviousness. This paper expands on their research by focusing on the nightscape in San Antonio, TX from …
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The Effects of Urbanization on Tick Parasitism Rates in Birds of Southeastern Virginia
… qualitatively and then quantitatively using national land cover data and ArcGIS in order to determine how urban each site was relative to others; the proportion of birds with ticks was greater at less urbanized (more rural) sites. Percent impervious surface and season played an important role …
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Identifying Biophysical Drivers of Evapotranspiration for Forest Cover in a Mountainous Region
… 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 terrains such as …
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Landscape Scale Habitat Associations of Sprague's Pipit (Anthus Spragueii) Overwintering in the Southern United States
… is a North American endemic migratory grassland songbird that has experienced a substantial population decline over the last half-century. There has been very limited research done on Sprague’s Pipit especially on their wintering grounds. There is no complete account of their historic …
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Assessing the Imprint of Geography, Host Species, Land Cover and Space on the Local Abundance of a Generalist Nest Parasite, the Brown-headed Cowbird
… to compare the relative effects of geography, land cover, host species, and space on the local abundance of cowbirds. We used data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey, the National Land Cover Database, and the latitudinal/longitudinal coordinates of the bird survey routes to examine …
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