Since the 1960’s the island Tenerife is characterized by an increasing tourism – about 4.9 mio. accommodate tourists in 2003 – which causes a lasting change of the socio-economic situation and a rural exodus. On account of this development the situation of land cover and land use changed in the same time: Fallow land, land wasting and decreasing settlements are some of the main consequences. Th...

BACKGROUND The changes in land use and land cover have a strong effect on the total soil organic carbon, its fractions and its overall soil health. This study carried out in Olesharo Catchment, Kenya, was to quantify the differences in total organic carbon (TOC), particulate organic carbon (POC), mineral organic carbon (MOC) and carbon management index (CMI) among four land use types: grassland...

Land-cover change is a major component of global change (Foley et al., 2005). Many forms of land-cover change, such as deforestation and urbanization, are directly associated with land use. Other land-cover changes, such as melting of permafrost, may be indirectly associated with human activity via anthropogenically induced climate change. Further changes in land cover, such as the expansion of...

This paper presents an approach to modeling land-cover change as a function of land-use change. We argue that, in order to model the link between socio-economic change and changes in forest cover in a region that is experiencing residential and recreational development and agricultural abandonment, land-use and landcover change need to be represented as separate processes. Forest-cover change i...

With the development of global changes, researchers from all over the world attach attention to land use changes increasingly, and large scale land use changes which have resulted from urban expansion catch people’s eyes. In this paper, urban expansion and their spatial and temporal variability of the Beijing city has been studied over a period of 21 years (1984–2005) via statistical classifica...

This study analyzed more than 50 years of land cover and land use changes in the 260 km 2 Koga catchment in North Western Ethiopia. The data used includes 1:50,000 scale aerial photographs, Landsat MSS, TM and ETM images, and ASTER images together with ground truth data collected through field surveys and community elders’ interviews. Aerial photographs have high spatial resolution but provide ...

the present study aims to simulate the spatial pattern of land use change in lisar protected area,iran. land cover maps for 1989, 2000, and 2007 were depicted using tm, etm+, and irs liss-iii images ofthe area at stake. images were classified using a merge of unsupervised and supervised classification. camarkov model was used to predict land cover maps as a top-down approach in investigating la...