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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"land cover and land use"”.
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Deep learning for land cover and land use classification
… present fine spatial details that are spectrally and spatially complicated, thus posing huge challenges in automatic land cover (LC) and land use (LU) classification. Deep learning reignited the pursuit of artificial intelligence towards a general purpose machine to be able to perform any …
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Estimates of global sources and sinks of carbon from land cover and land use changes
The distribution of sources and sinks of carbon over the land surface is dominated by changes in land use such as deforestation, reforestation, and agricultural management. Despite, the importance of land-use change in dominating long-term net terrestrial fluxes of carbon, estimates of the annual …
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Application of GIS and Remote Sensing techniques to evaluate the impact of land cover and land use changes on the hydrology and water resources of Luvuvhu River Catchment in Limpopo Province, South Africa.
Luvuvhu River Catchment (LRC) exhibits diverse land use and land cover patterns that are influenced by seasonality and socio-cultural practices of the local communities. From 1950, the catchment has been undergoing land cover changes caused by expanding villages, new urban centres and clearing …
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Predictive Analysis of Arizona Dust Storms (1996–2023): GIS, Artificial Intelligence (MaxEnt), and Spatiotemporal Data
… where different species might live. MaxEnt uses presence-only data which makes it especially useful in environments where reliable absence data is hard to find or unavailable. This study analyzes if the combination of MaxEnt within Geographic Information Systems (ArgGIS Pro) and …
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Monitoring Global Forest Land-Use and Change
… nearly three-fourths of the World’s floral and faunal diversity, function as a large carbon sink capable of mitigating the effects of global climate change, affect local and regional physical and chemical cycles and provide wood and non-wood products. However, humans are now capable of …
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Evaluation of RADARSAT-1 for monitoring and mapping land use, land cover in Thailand
… part of the world aquaculture market. Thailand has, for the last 10 years, been the world's leader in the intensive shrimp culture industry. However, intensive shrimp farming has major social, economic and environmental impacts. It is therefore paramount to manage this activity in order to …
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Analysis of land use and land cover change and its impact on soil erosion in Nzhelele Valley, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Globally, the rate of land use and land cover changes has affeceted the magnitude of soil eroion. Strategies to combat soil erosion can give assistance as solutions to provide food security in many agricultural areas. Although some changes are caused by natural factors, anthropogenic factors and an …
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The potential implications of bioenergy crop production for water and energy balance and carbon and nitrogen dynamics in the United States
… large-scale growth of bioenergy crops on water and energy balance and coupled carbon and nitrogen dynamics in the US. To achieve this objective, I apply and extend a coupled biogeochemical and biogeophysical model, the Integrated Science Assessment Model (ISAM), to develop a dynamic crop growth …
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Impacts of model-data uncertainties on biogeophysical-biogeochemical interactions in a land surface model (with an emphasis on the northern high-latitude regions)
… To achieve this objective, I applied a land surface model, specifically the Integrated Science Assessment Model (ISAM), at spatial scales ranging from flux tower sites to the global land surface in order to explore how the modeling uncertainties translate from site to regional to global …