Global urban expansion has created incentives to convert green spaces to urban/built-up area. Therefore, understanding the distribution and dynamics of the land-cover changes in cities is essential for better understanding of the cities’ fundamental characteristics and processes, and of the impact of changing land-cover on potential carbon storage. We present a grid square approach using multi-...

The paper summarized pre-existing research works relating to land use/land cover classification based on multi-resolution remote sensing data. According to the features of regions, we carried out of the land use/land cover classification of level III classes in 148 group of Xinjiang agricultural reclamation eighth division. The land use/land cover classification system divided land in study are...

The monitoring of land use and cover changes is essential for understanding several environmental and socio-economic processes in the World. This monitoring requires novel software tools able to process big spatiotemporal data sets generated from Earth observation satellites efficiently. To generate land use and cover maps, researchers from different areas need high-level mechanisms to easily h...

According to the fundamental goal of remote sensing technology, the image classification of desired sensors can be introduced as the most important part of satellite image interpretation. There exist various algorithms in relation to the supervised land use classification that the most pertinent one should be determined. Therefore, this study has been conducted to determine the best and most su...

Land cover maps reasonably depict areas that are strongly converted by human activities, but typically are unable to resolve low-density but widespread development patterns. Data products specifically designed to resolve land uses complement land cover datasets and likely improve our ability to understand the extent and complexity of human modification. Methods for developing a comprehensive la...

The growing population and increasing socio-economic necessities creates a pressure on land use/land cover. Nowadays, land use change detection using remote sensing data provides quantitative and timely information for management and evaluation of natural resources. This study investigates the land use changes in part of Hableh Rood Watershed of Iran using Landsat 7 and 8 (Sensor ETM+ and OLI) ...

Land use planning is a science that determines the type of land use through studying the ecological character of the land as well as its socio-economic structure. It is possible to plan for the appropriate use of the land and to enhance the present management of the land use by utilizing Geographical Information System (GIS). To this end, our investigators identified and took steps toward devel...

Super-resolution mapping or sub-pixel mapping is a set of techniques to produce the hard land cover map at sub-pixel spatial resolution from the land cover proportion images obtained by soft-classification methods. In addition to the information from the land cover proportion images at the original spatial resolution, supplementary information at the higher spatial resolution can be used to pro...

While Canada ranks second in the world in terms of national land area, its most productive arable land is limited in extent. These lands are also under pressure due to rapid urbanization, especially in the high growth areas of southern Ontario, the CalgaryEdmonton corridor and the lower Fraser River valley of British Columbia. Currently, a program is underway in the Earth Sciences Sector of Nat...