Search Results - subject:"Land Cover"

Unconditional transfers and tropical forest conservation : evidence from a randomized control trial in Sierra Leone

Wilebore, Beccy; Voors, Maarten; Bulte, Erwin H.; … - In: American journal of agricultural economics 101 (2019) 3, pp. 894-918

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Land use/cover changes and prediction of Dodoma, Tanzania

Kabanda, Tabaro - In: African journal of science, technology, innovation and … 11 (2019) 1, pp. 55-60

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Development of a Historical Multi-Year Land Cover Classification Incorporating Wildfire Effects

Morrison, Katherine D.; Kolden, Crystal A. - In: Land 3 (2014) 4, pp. 1214-1231

Land cover change impacts ecosystem function across the globe. The use of land cover data is vital in the detection of … these changes over time; however, most available land cover products, such as the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD), are … adequately reflect the impact of land cover changes that have occurred since, including the occurrence of two large wildfires in …

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Vertical Distribution of Soil Organic Carbon Density in Relation to Land Use/Cover, Altitude and Slope Aspect in the Eastern Himalayas

Dorji, Tshering; Odeh, Inakwu O. A.; Field, Damien J. - In: Land 3 (2014) 4, pp. 1232-1250

density under different land use/land cover (LULC) types, altitudinal zones and aspect directions in a montane ecosystem of …

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Interrelationships of Land Use/Cover Change and Topography with Soil Acidity and Salinity as Indicators of Land Degradation

Manandhar, Ramita; Odeh, Inakwu O. A. - In: Land 3 (2014) 1, pp. 282-299

reduced human welfare. Therefore the focus of this paper is on elucidating the influence of land use and land cover (LULC …

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Mapping Urban Transitions Using Multi-Temporal Landsat and DMSP-OLS Night-Time Lights Imagery of the Red River Delta in Vietnam

Castrence, Miguel; Nong, Duong H.; Tran, Chinh C.; … - In: Land 3 (2014) 1, pp. 148-166

The urban transition that has emerged over the past quarter century poses new challenges for mapping land cover …

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Restoration of Prairie Hydrology at the Watershed Scale: Two Decades of Progress at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Iowa

Schilling, Keith E.; Drobney, Pauline - In: Land 3 (2014) 1, pp. 206-238

Tallgrass prairie once occupied 67.6 million hectares in the North American Midwest but less than 0.1% remains today. Consisting of more than 2200 ha, Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge (NSNWR) was established by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in the 5217 ha Walnut Creek watershed in Jasper...

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Globalland30 Mapping Capacity of Land Surface Water in Thessaly, Greece

Manakos, Ioannis; Chatzopoulos-Vouzoglanis, Konstantinos; … - In: Land 4 (2014) 1, pp. 1-18

The National Geomatics Center of China (NGCC) produced Global Land Cover (GlobalLand30) maps with 30 m spatial … resolution for the years 2000 and 2009–2010, responding to the need for harmonized, accurate, and high-resolution global land … cover data. This study aims to assess the mapping accuracy of the land surface water layer of GlobalLand30 for 2009–2010. A …

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Spatiotemporal Changes of Farming-Pastoral Ecotone in Northern China, 1954–2005: A Case Study in Zhenlai County, Jilin Province

Yang, Yuanyuan; Zhang, Shuwen; Wang, Dongyan; Yang, Jiuchun - In: Sustainability 7 (2014) 1, pp. 1-22

Analyzing spatiotemporal changes in land use and land cover could provide basic information for appropriate decision … land cover change for every location in the study area from 1954 to 2005, using published land cover data based on … change detection showed that the most common land cover transition in the study area was an expansion of arable land at the …

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What Makes Green Cities Unique? Examining the Economic and Political Characteristics of the Grey-to-Green Continuum

Runfola, Daniel Miller; Hughes, Sara - In: Land 3 (2014) 1, pp. 131-147

“grey” cities—those with little green land cover. To address this gap, this paper seeks to answer the question <i>how do the …

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