An OpenStreetMap (OSM) landuse and landcover product (LULC) was published under osmlanduse.org. The product is based on the globally accessible OSM-data and the landuse classes orient themselves towards the legend of the Coordination of Information on the Environment (CORINE). Specific OSM tags are used to create classes in OSM LULC. The product is freely accessible and a first prototype for a ...

Applications of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model typically involve delineation of a watershed into subwatersheds/subbasins that are then further subdivided into hydrologic response units (HRUs) which are homogeneous areas of aggregated soil, landuse, and slope and are the smallest modeling units used within the model. In a given standard SWAT application, multiple potential HRUs ...

The relationship between landuse/landcover (LULC) changes and land degradation in two Mediterranean sites is investigated using remotely sensed and ancillary data. The areas of study, the Xaló river catchment in the north of the Alicante province in southeast Spain and the Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, have both been subjected to changes in LULC, such as abandonment, overgrazing, forest fire...

The Landuse / Landcover system espoused by almost all Organisations and scientists, engineers and remote sensing community who are involved in mapping of earth surface features, is a system which is derived from the united States Geological Survey (USGS) LULC classification system. The application of RS and GIS involves determining of homogeneous zones, trend analysis of land use integration of...

Water quality information in the coastal region of Hong Kong and the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) is of great concern to the local community. Due to great landuse-landcover (LULC) changes with rapid industrialization and urbanization in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, water quality in the PRE has worsened during the last 20 years. Frequent red tide and harmful algal blooms have occurred in the...

Between the Second World War and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, privately held land was generally forbidden in the Soviet Union. In Latvia, as well as in other former States of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the government has instituted a land restitution policy to reinstate lands to their previous owners. Latvia’s Gauja National Park was created as the second Soviet national park...

The study identifies decadal landuse and landcover (LULC) changes during 1988-2017 in north-eastern Dhaka conurbation of Bangladesh. Driving forces behind the area have also been investigated.In this study, LULC were studied using two Landsat sensors. GIS post-processing technique was used for satellite image classification, while an in-depth literature review conducted to identify drivers land...

road network (rn) can affect patterns and distribution of land uses and covers. road network expansion has both direct and indirect impacts on land uses and covers changes. agricultural land conversions (alcs) are especially known as one of the main important types of land use changes. the purpose of this paper, in addition to estimation of the direct impact of rn expansion on alcs, is to evalu...

Abstract Advancement in technology has made a new sphere of geospatial exploration. Application geoinformatics Landuse and Landcover study quantitative analysis most clear. Urbanization process is an inevitable factor developing countries like India. Last 30 years eastern India also been changed itself terms urban development. Kolkata Bhubaneswar are two important cities where growth taken plac...