Author:Tizora, P; Le Roux, Alize; Mans, Gerbrand G; Cooper, Antony KDate:Sep 2018Models which integrate and evaluate diverse factors of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) change can be used to guide planners in making more informed decisions and achieving a balance between urban growth and preservation of the natural environment. ...Read more
Author:Marumbwa, FM; Cho, Moses A; Chirwa, PWDate:Jul 2020An understanding of drought and land cover interaction plays a crucial role in vegetation vulnerability studies and land use planning. However, there is paucity of information on drought, land cover and land use interaction in southern Africa. ...Read more
Author:Salmon, BP; Olivier, JC; Kleynhans, W; Wessels, Konrad J; Van den Bergh, FDate:Jul 2010An automated land cover change detection method is proposed that uses coarse resolution hyper-temporal satellite time series data. The study compared two different unsupervised clustering approaches that operate on the short term Fourier ...Read more
Author:Breytenbach, Andre; Eloff, C; Pretorius, EDate:Aug 2013Accessibility to higher resolution earth observation satellites suggests an improvement in the potential for fine scale image classification. In this comparative study, imagery from three optical satellites (WorldView-2, Pléiades and RapidEye) ...Read more
Author:Scholes, RJ; Van Breemen, NDate:Sep 1997Alteration of land use will continue to be the dominant driver of environmental change in the tropics for the next several decades. It can take the form of fundamental vegetation cover transformation, or of intensification of existing land ...Read more
Author:Petersen, Chantel R; Jovanovic, Nebojsa; Le Maitre, David C; Grenfell, MCDate:Jan 2017This study aimed to link land cover/use change to water quality in an important water supply coastal catchment. The approach followed a spatial and temporal analysis of historical catchment land use change to assess how changes influenced ...Read more
Author:Tizora, P; Le Roux, Alize; Mans, Gerbrand G; Cooper, Antony KDate:Jul 2016The Western Cape Province is currently faced with population growth, declining household sizes, increasing household numbers, high levels of migration, urbanization and escalating development pressures. These factors have consequently triggered ...Read more
Author:Goede, MF; Cho, Moses A; Chirwa, W; Geldenhuys, CJDate:Jan 2020Miombo Woodland is the major Land use/land cover with important ecological functions in Africa. In Malawi, government-management was designed to manage Woodlands. However, when illegal activities continued, Participatory Forest Management ...Read more
Author:Cooper, Antony KDate:Apr 2014This presentation provides an overview of a meta-language for land use classification. It also explains why land use can’t always be determined from imagery, and why land use is not the same as land cover, zoning or planning - though they ...Read more
Author:Salmon, BP; Olivier, JC; Kleynhans, W; Wessels, Konrad J; Van den Bergh, FDate:Jul 2009This paper shows that a feedforward Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) operating over a temporal sliding window of multispectral time series MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data is able to detect land cover change ...Read more