A synthesis of land use/land cover studies: Definitions, classification systems, meta-studies, challenges and knowledge gaps on a global landscape

R Nedd, K Light, M Owens, N James, E Johnson… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Land is a natural resource that humans have utilized for life and various activities. Land
use/land cover change (LULCC) has been of great concern to many countries over the …

Accounting for training data error in machine learning applied to earth observations

A Elmes, H Alemohammad, R Avery, K Caylor… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing, or Earth Observation (EO), is increasingly used to understand Earth system
dynamics and create continuous and categorical maps of biophysical properties and land …

Automated Water Extraction Index: A new technique for surface water mapping using Landsat imagery

GL Feyisa, H Meilby, R Fensholt, SR Proud - Remote sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Classifying surface cover types and analyzing changes are among the most common
applications of remote sensing. One of the most basic classification tasks is to distinguish …

Mapping urban land use by using landsat images and open social data

T Hu, J Yang, X Li, P Gong - Remote sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
High-resolution urban land use maps have important applications in urban planning and
management, but the availability of these maps is low in countries such as China. To …

Rapid urban growth in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Monitoring land use land cover dynamics of a himalayan city with landsat imageries

A Ishtiaque, M Shrestha, N Chhetri - Environments, 2017 - mdpi.com
The Kathmandu Valley of Nepal epitomizes the growing urbanization trend spreading
across the Himalayan foothills. This metropolitan valley has experienced a significant …

Performance evaluation of sentinel-2 and landsat 8 OLI data for land cover/use classification using a comparison between machine learning algorithms

L Ghayour, A Neshat, S Paryani, H Shahabi… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
With the development of remote sensing algorithms and increased access to satellite data,
generating up-to-date, accurate land use/land cover (LULC) maps has become increasingly …

Remote sensing-based quantification of the relationships between land use land cover changes and surface temperature over the Lower Himalayan Region

S Ullah, AA Tahir, TA Akbar, QK Hassan, A Dewan… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Population growth and population inflow from other regions has caused urbanization which
altered land use land cover (LULC) in the lower Himalayan regions of Pakistan. This LULC …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of rapid urban expansion on green space structure

ANM Nor, R Corstanje, JA Harris, T Brewer - Ecological Indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
Rapid urban expansion has had a significant impact on green space structure. A wide
variety of modelling approaches have been tested to simulate urban expansion; however …

Retrieval of land-use/land cover change (LUCC) maps and urban expansion dynamics of Hyderabad, Pakistan via Landsat datasets and support vector machine …

S Ul Din, HWL Mak - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Land-use/land cover change (LUCC) is an important problem in developing and under-
developing countries with regard to global climatic changes and urban morphological …

An approach for global monitoring of surface water extent variations in reservoirs using MODIS data

A Khandelwal, A Karpatne, ME Marlier, J Kim… - Remote sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Freshwater resources are among the most basic requirements of human society.
Nonetheless, global information about the space-time variations of the area of freshwater …