they change. It tests the notion that land cover (not land use) governs fire regimes by combining long term burn scar and … on subtle differences in land cover, landscape pattern and human practices, than on drought, land use or fire policy. …

. Little is known about the<i> </i>land cover changes and conversion rates on La Gonave. Using Landsat images from 1990 to 2010 … analysis. Five land cover classes were considered:<i> Agriculture</i>,<i> Forest/Dense Vegetation (DV)</i>,<i> Shrub, Barren …/Eroded</i>, and<i> Nonforested Wetlands</i>. Overall image classification accuracy was 87%. Results of land cover change analysis show …

rapidly create and update categorizations of Earth’s surface with improved speed and flexibility. Land cover datasets and … landscape metrics offer a vast set of information for viewing and quantifying land cover across large areas. Comprehending the …

Vegetation and land-cover changes are not always directional but follow complex trajectories over space and time …. Using land-ownership data as a proxy for land-use practices, multitemporal land-cover maps, and repeat photography dating to …

(REDD). In Southeastern Peru, reliable estimates of land-cover change (LCC) are important for monitoring changes in the …-Oceanic Highway (IOH). Our study reports a land-use/land-cover change (LULCC) analysis during a 15-year period from 1996 to 2011 in … the Province of Tahuamanu, Madre de Dios. We draw on multiple years of observations of LULCC to relate changes in land …

years 1990-2000, obtained through identification of the transfers from the CORINE land cover class 211 (arable land) in …

Institutional settings play a key role in shaping land cover and land use. Our goal was to understand the effects of …

vegetation coverage area. We draw the land cover classification diagram of Four-Lake Area in the period 2001-2007. In comparison … with the land cover classification based on multitemporal ETM data in 2001, the difference of area of arable land is within … 10%. Using MODIS-EVI data, we can rapidly and efficiently conduct land cover classification with low cost. The dynamic …

ecosystem. The goal of this research is to detect the environmental changes in Iraqi marshes that represented main land cover in … used as a tool for detecting and studying land cover changes and its impact on the environment of Iraqi Marsh area …