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Land cover/land use is one of factors which is important in land management. The changes of land cover can affect on the polcy in an area. Land cover/land use of South Lampung Regency is potentially changes.
Rakhman Adhiatma +2 more
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Three Decades of Land Cover Change in East Africa
Population growth rates in Sub-Saharan East Africa are among the highest in the world, creating increasing pressure for land cover conversion. To date, however, there has been no comprehensive assessment of regional land cover change, and most long-term ...
Eric L. Bullock +7 more
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A number of national, regional and global land cover classification systems have been developed to meet specific user requirements for land cover mapping exercises, independent of scale, nomenclature and quality.
Hui Yang +4 more
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Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks [PDF]
The major objectives of this paper are: (1) to review the pros and cons of the scenarios of past anthropogenic land cover change (ALCC) developed during the last ten years, (2) to discuss issues related to pollen-based reconstruction of the past land ...
M.-J. Gaillard +40 more
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High resolution analysis of tropical forest fragmentation and its impact on the global carbon cycle
Vast quantities of carbon stored in tropical forests are threatened by deforestation. Here, using high resolution satellite data, Brincket al. examine how edge effects influence carbon emissions and they find an additional 10.3 Gt of carbon are released ...
Katharina Brinck +8 more
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CA MARKOV MODELING OF LAND USE LAND COVER DYNAMICS AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY SENSITIVE PARAMETER(S) [PDF]
An attempt has been made to explore, evaluate and identify the sensitive parameter(s) of Cellular Automata Markov chain modeling to monitor and predict the future land use land cover pattern scenario in a part of Brahmaputra River Basin, India.
M. Surabuddin Mondal +3 more
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Change of land use land cover (LULC) has been known globally as an essential driver of environmental change. Assessment of LULC change is the most precise method to comprehend the past land use, types of changes to be estimated, the forces and ...
M. Leta, T. A. Demissie, Jens Tränckner
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Linking remote sensing, land cover and disease [PDF]
Land cover is a critical variable in epidemiology and can be characterized remotely. A framework is used to describe both the links between land cover and radiation recorded in a remotely sensed image, and the links between land cover and the disease ...
Milton, E. J. +11 more
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Land use and land cover change is an important driving force for changes in ecosystem services. We defined several important human-induced land cover change processes such as Ecological Restoration Project, Cropland Expansion, Land Degradation, and ...
Bo Liu +4 more
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An International Library for Land Cover Legends: The Land Cover Legend Registry
Information on land cover is vital to numerous United Nations (UN) missions, including achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Because land cover data are developed by a variety of organizations for a range of objectives, they are based on ...
Fatima Mushtaq +14 more
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