Historical Land Use/Land Cover Classification Using Remote Sensing
Historical Land Use/Land Cover Classification Using Remote Sensing

Author: Wafi Al-Fares

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-25

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 331900624X

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Although the development of remote sensing techniques focuses greatly on construction of new sensors with higher spatial and spectral resolution, it is advisable to also use data of older sensors (especially, the LANDSAT-mission) when the historical mapping of land use/land cover and monitoring of their dynamics are needed. Using data from LANDSAT missions as well as from Terra (ASTER) Sensors, the authors shows in his book maps of historical land cover changes with a focus on agricultural irrigation projects. The kernel of this study was whether, how and to what extent applying the various remotely sensed data that were used here, would be an effective approach to classify the historical and current land use/land cover, to monitor the dynamics of land use/land cover during the last four decades, to map the development of the irrigation areas, and to classify the major strategic winter- and summer-irrigated agricultural crops in the study area of the Euphrates River Basin.

Land Cover Changes and Their Relationship with Land Surface Temperature Using Remote Sensing Technique (Penerbit USM)
Land Cover Changes and Their Relationship with Land Surface Temperature Using Remote Sensing Technique (Penerbit USM)

Author: Tan Kok Chooi

Publisher: Penerbit USM

Published: 2014-11

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9838617105

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Nowadays, land cover changes are a major issue of global environmental change. Investigation on this subject has now been done by using remote sensing application. Research has been done in the Penang Island, which is one of the affected areas due to industrial and residential areas growth. Thus, this monograph is published to demonstrate an effective application through remote sensing technique to explore the environmental change and its impact on local environment that is caused by abrupt change in land use. It provides appropriate and comprehensive information for researchers involved in the study of environmental management, urban planning, land surface characteristics, and related support fields. This monograph highlights the relationship between land surface temperature and normalized difference vegetation index as the major results. The remote sensing technique used in this study was found to be efficient. It reduced the time for the analysis of land cover changes and was found to be a useful tool. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia

Vegetation Monitoring
Vegetation Monitoring

Author: Caryl L. Elzinga

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1998-05

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780788148378

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This annotated bibliography documents literature addressing the design and implementation of vegetation monitoring. It provides resources managers, ecologists, and scientists access to the great volume of literature addressing many aspects of vegetation monitoring: planning and objective setting, choosing vegetation attributes to measure, sampling design, sampling methods, statistical and graphical analysis, and communication of results. Over half of the 1400 references have been annotated. Keywords pertaining to the type of monitoring or method are included with each bibliographic entry. Keyword index.