Global land cover data are fundamental for applications, especially ecological environmental assessment and climate change research. Currently available global land cover data products show some deficiencies in data accuracy and spatial and temporal resolution. So we discuss fast automatic classification methods for the study area in Antarctica. A classification method based on a Support vector...

Analysis of hyperspectral data for defining the land-cover classes through classification techniques, in particular for small patches and scattered land-covers, is not a trivial task. Factors such as high spatial variability of landcover signatures, the “boundary effect” between neighboring land-covers, and the curse of dimensionality make this task more challenging [1]. As the integrity of a l...

Whereas C-band SAR data mainly provides information on the upper layer of land covers, properties of the lower surfaces can be captured using L-band SAR because of its higher capability of penetration. Moreover, optical imagery illuminates different characteristics of ground surfaces compared to radar images since they are obtained at different frequencies of the electro-magnetic spectrum. Henc...

in the recent years, human activities have led to changes in land use and land cover, consequently, these changes lead to the structure and function of ecosystems. spatial-temporal change detection of land use is important to understand the relationships and interactions between human and natural resources and to make appropriate decisions due to changes in land use and land cover occurs in bro...

Detailed and precise information of land-use and land-cover (LULC) in rural area is essential for land-use planning, environment and energy management. The confusion in mapping residential and industrial areas brings problems in energy management, environmental management and sustainable land use development. However, they remain ambiguous in the former rural LULC mapping, and this insufficient...

Numerous applications make use of data on land use and land cover (LULC). Given their importance and use, land cover data is assumed to be readily available or trivially acquired for a given landscape. Unfortunately, this is often not the case. LULC data at hand are often out-of-date, inappropriate for a particular application [1], or contain other difficulties. Thematic mapping of remotely sen...

Land cover/land use categories are relevant components in land management. Understanding how land cover/land use change over time is necessary to assess the consequences of humans and natural stressors on the earth’s environment and resources. The aim of the study was to map and monitor the spatial and temporal change in land cover/land use for the periods of 1977, 1991 and 2016 and to predict ...

1:50000 land cover classification and mapping program is an important part of the mapping project in western China, which is organized by Chinese State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping Organization and will finish 5032 maps at scale of 1:50000 until 2010. With an average altitude of 4400 m, Sanjiangyuan mapping district is located at the center of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Because of complicate...

during the time, land cover and as a result land use patterns go through fundamental changes and human factors can have the most important role in this process. knowing these changes could be of great help to the future management of this region. according to this, the main purpose of this study is to monitor the land use-cover changes in the hamedan province area during the three recent decade...