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The implications of alternative developer decision-making strategies on land-use and land-cover in an agent-based land market model [PDF]

, 2012
Land developers play a key role in land-use and land cover change, as\ud they directly make land development decisions and bridge the land and housing\ud markets.
Brown, D.G., Filatova, T., Huang, Q., Magliocca, N., Parker, D.C., Riolo, R., Sun, S.   +6 more
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Large-scale Land Cover Classification in GaoFen-2 Satellite Imagery

, 2018
Many significant applications need land cover information of remote sensing images that are acquired from different areas and times, such as change detection and disaster monitoring.
Lu, Qikai, Tong, Xin-Yi, Xia, Gui-Song, Zhang, Liangpei   +3 more
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Exploratory landscape metrics for agricultural sustainability [PDF]

, 2013
Socioeconomic growth and urban change have been an increasing concern for decision makers in recent decades. The monitoring, mapping, and analysis of agricultural land use change, especially in areas where urban change has been high, is crucial.
Nijkamp, Peter, Noronha, Teresa de, Vaz, Eric   +2 more
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Changes in moisture and energy fluxes due to agricultural land use and irrigation in the Indian Monsoon Belt [PDF]

, 2006
We present a conceptual synthesis of the impact that agricultural activity in India can have on land-atmosphere interactions through irrigation. We illustrate a “bottom up” approach to evaluate the effects of land use change on both physical processes ...
Douglas, Ellen M, Frolking, Steve, Mohanty, U C, Niyogi, Dev, Niyogi, Nivedita, Pielke, Roger A, Sr, Vorosmarty, Charles, Yeluripati, Jagadeesh Babu   +7 more
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Quantifying the relative impacts of climate and human activities on vegetation change in Hunan Province between 2000 and 2015 [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
Since1999, Hunan Province has embarked on a series of ecological projects to return farmland to forests across the province to explore the impacts of anthropogenic policies and actions on changes in vegetation cover between 2000 and 2015.It is important ...
Zhang Qingbin, Qi Cuicui, Wang Hui
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Land-cover change monitoring in Obuasi, Ghana: an integration of earth observation, geoinformation systems and stochastic modelling [PDF]

For over twenty years, Obuasi Municipality, Ghana, has experienced land-cover change arising from gold mining and urbanisation. This project quantified the land-cover changes that have taken place and projected likely future land-cover. An integration of
Adu-Poko, I., Drummond, J., Li, Z.
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Anticipated climate and land-cover changes reveal refuge areas for Borneo's orang-utans [PDF]

, 2015
Habitat loss and climate change pose a double jeopardy for many threatened taxa, making the identification of optimal habitat for the future a conservation priority.
Abram, Ancrenaz, Ancrenaz, Ancrenaz, Araújo, Ashcroft, Barbet-Massin, Beale, Beck, Bellard, BOSF, Brodie, Brook, Buisson, Carne, Chauvenet, Chazal, Chen, Cochard, Colwell, Elith, Ewen, Fitzherbert, Gaveau, Gaveau, Gaveau, Gaveau, Gingold, Gregory, Gregory, Guisan, Hansen, Hijmans, Hoekman, Husson, Junker, Kelle, Keppel, Koh, Kramer-Schadt, Langner, Laurance, Lehmann, Malhi, Mantyka-Pringle, Marshall, Martin, Meijaard, Meijaard, Meijaard, Meijaard, Miettinen, Nietlisbach, Parmesan, Pearson, Pearson, Phillips, Phillips, Reside, Rijksen, Russon, Schwartz, Schweiger, Seddon, Singleton, Stanton, Struebig, Tewksbury, Thomas, Tingley, Turner, Varela, Warren, Wich, Wich, Wilting, Zelazowski   +76 more
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Algorithm, Progresses, Datasets and Validation of GLC_FCS30D: the first global 30 m land-cover dynamic product with fine classification system from 1985 to 2022 [PDF]

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Land cover change information plays an indispensable role in environmental monitoring, climate change research, agricultural planning, urban development, biodiversity conservation, and natural disaster risk assessment.
L. Liu, L. Liu, L. Liu, X. Zhang, X. Zhang   +4 more
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How Does Changing Land Cover and Land Use in New Zealand relate to Land Use Capability and Slope? [PDF]

Land cover and use are critical for climate change, water quality and use, biodiversity and soil conservation as well as important drivers of rural economic activity and the evolution of rural communities.
Maribeth Todd, Suzi Kerr
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Population, Greenspace, and Development:Conversion Patterns in the Great Lakes Region [PDF]

, 2018
In this brief, authors Mark Ducey, Kenneth Johnson, Ethan Belair, and Barbara Cook combine demographic, land-cover, and other spatial data to estimate the incidence and extent of conversion from greenspace (forestland, shrublands, and grasslands) to ...
Belair, Ethan P, Cook, Barbara D, Ducey, Mark, Johnson, Kenneth M   +3 more
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