Remotely sensed imagery is an attractive source of information for mapping and monitoring land cover. Fine spatial resolution imagery is typically acquired infrequently, but fine temporal resolution systems commonly provide coarse spatial resolution imagery. Sub-pixel land cover change mapping is a method that aims to use the advantages of these multiple spatial and temporal resolution sensing ...

Statewide land-cover change detection analysis provides a useful tool for conservation planning and environmental monitoring and addresses issues of habitat fragmentation and urban sprawl. Furthermore, land-cover data offer a historical and recent perspective on landscape dynamics. To this end, the first alliance level land-cover map of Kansas (Kansas Vegetation Map) recently completed by the K...

land degradation is a major danger which restricting different areas of iran. systematic description of the environmentfor detection of environmental changes and the human-related causes and responses is essential in land cover changestudy. use of land cover data allow detection of where certain changes occur, what type of change, as well as how theland is changing. existing systems for classif...

Using time series of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and rainfall data, we investigated historical vegetation productivity trends from 1982 to 2011 over the Bani River Basin in Mali. Statistical agreements between long-term trends in vegetation productivty, corresponding rainfall and rate of land cover change from Landsat time-series imagery was used to discern climate versus huma...

Quantifying the amount of forest and change in the amount of forest are key to ensure that appropriate management practices and policies are in place to maintain the array of ecosystem services provided by forests. There are a range of analytical techniques and data available to estimate these forest parameters, however, not all ‘forest’ is the same and various components of change have been pr...

studies on vegetation changes of rangelands under grazed and non-grazedconditions are of great importance in the range management planning programs. to determinethe change process of vegetation, this study was performed in inche shorezar site of golestanprovince for nine years (1997-2005). the vegetation parameters were measured every year inseveral fixed plots inside and adjacent of exclosures...

Globally, the extent of forest continues to decline, however, some countries have increased their forest extent in recent years. China is one of these countries and has managed to increase their tree cover through huge reforestation and afforestation programs during recent decades as well as land abandonment dynamics. This study investigates tree cover change in the eastern half of China betwee...

This document details the structural definition, development process, and functional flow of the MODIS Land-Cover Product. The Land Cover and Land-Cover Change Parameters were proposed by the MODIS Land Team, with Team Member Alan Strahler leading the effort. The Land Cover Parameter is a 1-km product provided on a quarterly basis beginning about one year following the acquisition of a global d...

An understanding of land use/land cover change at local, regional, and global scales is important in an increasingly human-dominated biosphere. Here, we report on an under-appreciated complexity in the analysis of land cover change important in arid and semi-arid environments. In these environments, some land cover types show a high degree of inter-annual variability in productivity. In this st...

Article history: Annual forest cover loss ind Received 1 March 2008 Received in revised form 19 May 2008 Accepted 24 May 2008 Available online xxxx