Land Cover and Land Use: Classification and Change Analysis

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rinku Roy Chowdhury ◽  
Laura C. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Change Detection ◽  
Spatial Pattern ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Secondary Forest ◽  
Landsat Tm ◽  
Change Analysis ◽  
Deforestation Rates ◽  
Cover Class

Despite its international designation as a hotspot of biodiversity and tropical deforestation (Achard et al. 1988), the micro-scale land-cover mapping of southern Yucatán peninsular region remains surprisingly incomplete, hindering various kinds of research, including that proposed in the SYPR project. This chapter details the methodology for the thematic classification and change detection of land use and cover in the tropical sub-humid environment of the region. A hybrid approach using principal components and texture analyses of Landsat TM data enabled the distinction of land-cover classes at the local scale, including mature and secondary forest, savannas, and cropland/pasture. Results indicate that texture analysis increases the statistical separability of cover class signatures, the magnitude of improvement varying among pairs of land-cover classes. At a local level, the availability of exhaustive training site data over recent history (10–13 years) in a repository of highly detailed land-use sketch maps allows the distinction of greater numbers of land-cover classes, including three successional stages of vegetation. At the regional scale, finely detailed land-cover classes are aggregated for greater ability to generalize in a terrain wherein vegetation exhibits marked regional and seasonal variation in intra-class spectral properties. Post-classification change detection identifies the quantities and spatial pattern of major land-cover changes in a ten-year period in the region. Change analysis results indicate an average annual rate of deforestation of 0.4 per cent, with much regional variation and most change located at three subregional hotspots. Deforestation as well as successional regrowth is highest in a southern hotspot located in the newly colonized southern part of the region, an area where commercial chili production is large. The objectives of this chapter are to describe and evaluate: (1) an experimental methodology that iteratively combines three suites of image-processing techniques (PCA, texture transformation, and NDVI); (2) the statistical separability of distinct land-cover signatures; and (3) a post-classification change detection for the region from 1987 to 1997 in order to derive regional deforestation rates, and identify the spatial pattern of deforestation and secondary forest succession. Specifically, a region encompassing 18,700km2 (those land units completely within the defined region; Fig. 7.1) was mapped using a maximum likelihood supervised classification of lower-order principal components of Landsat TM imagery after tasseled-cap and texture transformations.

Change Detection of Land Cover at Zheng Lanqi County of Inner Mongolia

2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 1371-1374
Author(s):  
Chu La Sa ◽  
Gui Xiang Liu ◽  
Mu Lan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Change Detection ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Remotely Sensed ◽  
Landsat Tm ◽  
Remotely Sensed Images ◽  
Second Period

In the study we mapped and analyzed the land use/cover changes in Zheng Lanqi county by visual interpreting the 3 sets of Landsat TM and ETM remotely sensed images received in 1990, 2000 and 2005.The 6 broad types of land use/ cover were interpreted for the study area. Through analyzing land use/cover changes, our study indicated that the grassland and built-up area is dominant landscape in the study area.The grassland in the study area shrank 588.68km2 for urbanization and farmland cultivation for first periods. The unchanged land is 10639.75km2 and 10743.18km2 for the two periods (1990-2000 and 2000-2005), respectively. This indicated that the landscape conversion in second period became stable than that of first period, and environment is improved since 2000.

scholarly journals A GEOBIA Approach for Multitemporal Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Analysis in a Tropical Watershed in the Southeastern Amazon

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Souza-Filho ◽  
Wilson Nascimento ◽  
Diogo Santos ◽  
Eliseu Weber ◽  
Renato Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Change Detection ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Landsat Images ◽  
Change Analysis ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Object Based ◽  
Detection Approach ◽  
Tropical Watershed

The southeastern Amazon region has been intensively occupied by human settlements over the past three decades. To evaluate the effects of human settlements on land-cover and land-use (LCLU) changes over time in the study site, we evaluated multitemporal Landsat images from the years 1984, 1994, 2004, 2013 and Sentinel to the year 2017. Then, we defined the LCLU classes, and a detailed “from-to” change detection approach based on a geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) was employed to determine the trajectories of the LCLU changes. Three land-cover (forest, montane savanna and water bodies) and three land-use types (pasturelands, mining and urban areas) were mapped. The overall accuracies and kappa values of the classification were higher than 0.91 for each of the classified images. Throughout the change detection period, ~47% (19,320 km2) of the forest was preserved mainly within protected areas, while almost 42% (17,398 km2) of the area was converted from forests to pasturelands. An intrinsic connection between the increase in mining activity and the expansion of urban areas also exists. The direct impacts of mining activities were more significant throughout the montane savanna areas. We concluded that the GEOBIA approach adopted in this study combines the advantages of quality human interpretation and the capacities of quantitative computing.

scholarly journals Geospatial Applications in Land Use/Land Cover Change Detection for Sustainable Regional Development: The Case of Central Haryana, India

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Surender Pawar ◽  
Ripudaman Singh
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Change Detection ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Sand Dunes ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Change Analysis ◽  
Post Monsoon ◽  
Sustainable Regional Development

Timely and accurate detection of land use/land cover (LULC) change is important for the macro and micro level sustainable development of any region. For this purpose, geospatial techniques are the best tool for change analysis as they supply timely, cheaper, precise and up to date information. This paper examines the spatial temporal change trend in LULC in the case of Central Haryana. Landsat 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8 images for the years 1975–2020 for pre‑ and post‑monsoon periods were analyzed for the study. Radiometric correction was performed to derive better information. ArcGIS 10.2 and ENVI 5.3 are used for thematic layout and thematic change preparation. An unsupervised classification using ERDAS IMAGINE 2015 has also been done to classify study area in eight classes. The year 1975 is considered as the base year for change detection analysis. Results showed an increasing trend for the land use classes of built‑up, water body, and agricultural land without waterlogging in the pre‑ and post‑monsoon periods between 1975 and 2020. Remaining land use classes of agriculture with waterlogging, open waterlogged area, vegetation and fallow land/sand dunes decreased during the same period. Increased human activities have changed the LULC in the region and have had a great impact on its sustainable regional development.

scholarly journals An Automatic and Operational Method for Land Cover Change Detection Using Spatiotemporal Analysis of MODIS Data: A Northern Ontario (Canada) Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Ima Ituen ◽  
Baoxin Hu
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Change Detection ◽  
Land Cover Change ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Operational Method ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Modis Data ◽  
Forest Fire Management ◽  
Land Cover Change Detection

Mapping and understanding the differences in land cover and land use over time is an essential component of decision-making in sectors such as resource management, urban planning, and forest fire management, as well as in tracking of the impacts of climate change. Existing methods sometimes pose a barrier to the effective monitoring of changes in land cover and land use, since a threshold parameter is often needed and determined based on trial and error. This study aimed to develop an automatic and operational method for change detection on a large scale from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data. Super pixels were the basic unit of analysis instead of traditional individual pixels. T2 tests based on the feature vectors of temporal Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and land surface temperature were used for change detection. The developed method was applied to data over a predominantly vegetated area in northern Ontario, Canada spanning 120,000 sq. km from 2001–2016. The accuracies ranged between 78% and 88% for the NDVI-based test, from 74% to 86% for the LST-based test, and from 70% to 86% for the joint method compared with manual interpretation. Our proposed method for detecting land cover change provides a functional and viable alternative to existing methods of land cover change detection as it is reliable, repeatable, and free from uncertainty in establishing a threshold for change.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the status of land use/land cover change using remote sensing and GIS in Jewha Watershed, Northeastern Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dereje Gebrie Habte ◽  
Satishkumar Belliethathan ◽  
Tenalem Ayenew
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Change Detection ◽  
Catchment Area ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Plantation Forest ◽  
Bare Land

AbstractEvaluation of land use/land cover (LULC) status of watersheds is vital to environmental management. This study was carried out in Jewha watershed, which is found in the upper Awash River basin of central Ethiopia. The total catchment area is 502 km2. All climatic zones of Ethiopia, including lowland arid (‘Kola’), midland semi-arid (‘Woinadega’), humid highland (Dega) and afro alpine (‘Wurch’) can be found in the watershed. The study focused on LULC classification and change detection using GIS and remote sensing techniques by analyzing satellite images. The data preprocessing and post-process was done using multi-temporal spectral satellite data. The images were used to evaluate the temporal trends of the LULC class by considering the years 1984, 1995, 2005 and 2015. Accuracy assessment and change detection of the classification were undertaken by accounting these four years images. The land use types in the study area were categorized into six classes: natural forest, plantation forest, cultivated land, shrub land, grass land and bare land. The result shows the cover classes which has high environmental role such as forest and shrub has decreased dramatically through time with cultivated land increasing during the same period in the watershed. The forest cover in 1984 was about 6.5% of the total catchment area, and it had decreased to 4.2% in 2015. In contrast, cultivated land increased from 38.7% in 1984 to 51% in 2015. Shrub land decreased from 28 to 18% in the same period. Bare land increased due to high gully formation in the catchment. In 1984, it was 1.8% which turned to 0.6% in 1995 then increased in 2015 to 2.7%. Plantation forest was not detected in 1984. In 1995, it covers 1.5% which turned to be the same in 2015. The study clearly demonstrated that there are significant changes of land use and land cover in the catchment. The findings will allow making informed decision which will allow better land use management and environmental conservation interventions.

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