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10 Land-Use and Land-Cover Change
10 Land-Use and Land-Cover Change
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Moreover, the free regional and global climate, degrade freshwater resources, availability of epochal global orthorectified Landsat data for cause air pollution, fragment habitats, cause species extinction the 1990s, 2000s, and so forth, has been a great boon for the and biodiversity loss, and lead to the emergence of infectious land-use and land-cover change community.
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Some of the Resolution Radiometer [AVHRR] , the Moderate Resolution earliest applications of Landsat data included agricultural Imaging Spectroradiometer [MODIS]
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2002, Hansen and Mapping Global Fires DeFries 2004) showed recently that it is also possible to estimate tropical deforestation over large areas using coarse- Fires are an important component of ecosystems; many resolution weather satellite data (8-km resolution AVHRR natural communities depend on fires for their regeneration.
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, present several examples of these a pproaches. Numerous studies have made advances in mapping global land cover, agricultural land-use practices, and urban areas by either merging census and other ancillary information with satellite data using statistical methods or using the ancillary information to guide the land-cover classification from remote sensing (e.g., Ramankutty and Foley 1998, Loveland et al.
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FIGURE 10.4 Estimating selective logging over the Amazon Basin using Landsat data. SOURCE: Asner et al.
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Data from the Landsat sensors have played a particularly important role in assessing urban expansion, primarily because of increased data availability and the synoptic view these data afford. Cities have grown so significantly in the past few decades that it is critical to have accurate and up-to-date maps to help monitor the rate and form of urban and periurban land conversion and to identify how urban expansion differs across cities from a range of geographic settings and levels of economic development.
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(2000) EROS Data Center; Characterization University of Nebraska, Lincoln; and Joint Research Centre, European Commission Boston University MODIS MOD12Q1 Land Cover MODIS 2001 1-km Friedl et al.
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. Desertification became the dominant theme of an distribution of burned area at 1-km spatial resolution and environmental convention, the United Nations Convention monthly time intervals using the ATSR-2 instrument on the to Combat Desertification, which emerged from the Rio ERS-2 satellite (Simon et al.
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