Recent sensor development including high spatial resolution spaceborne systems like IKONOS as well as hyperspectral sensors like AVIRIS have the potential for more detailed and accurate mapping of urban land cover and land use. However, the new spaceborne sensors are limited in their spectral resolution with just four multispectral bands and few studies have focused on the issues of spectral pr...

A simulation experiment was carried out to analyse the e€ ects of the modulation transfer function on our ability to estimate the proportions of land cover within a pixel by linear mixture modelling. In the simulated landscape the proportionof each land cover type in every pixel was known exactly. The standard error of the estimate (SEE) between percentages derived from mixture modelling and th...

desertification is the consequence of series of processes in which climate change and human activities are more important factors than others. arid and semi-arid areas have occupied most parts of iran. sistan region is one of arid areas of iran where wind erosion is an important factor of land degradation and soil deterioration. for classification of desertification intensity, several methods h...

Regional analyses of biogeochemical processes can benefit significantly from observational information on land cover, vegetation structure (e.g., leaf area index), and biophysical properties such as fractional PAR absorption. Few remote sensing efforts have provided a suite of plant attributes needed to link vegetation structure to ecosystem function at high spatial resolution. In arid and semi...

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...

The Wisconsin Initiative for Statewide Cooperation on Landscape Analysis and Data (WISCLAND) is a consortium of government and private organizations formed in 1993 to promote development of digital geographic data for the state. The initial focus of the consortium was to acquire funding and resources to develop a land cover classification. That effort has now been completed statewide. This docu...

Land is one of the prime natural resources. A city grows not only by population but also by changes in spatial dimensions. Urban population growth and urban sprawl induced land use changes and land transformation. The land transformation is a natural process and cannot be stopped but it can be regulated. Many geographical changes at the urban periphery are associated with the transfer of land f...

Models are used in a variety of fields, including land change science, to better understand the dynamics of systems, to develop hypotheses that can be tested empirically, and to make predictions and/or evaluate scenarios for use in assessment activities. Modeling is an important component of each of the three foci outlined in the science plan of the Land-use and -cover change (LUCC) project (Tu...