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Land, Volume 11, Issue 9

September 2022 - 236 articles

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Cover Story: Land cover products constitute essential information for various applications and many such datasets are readily available at various scales. The present work focuses on a Mediterranean area and investigates the accuracy of the landscape representation in three widely used land cover products, two global ones, i.e., the MODIS and the ESA Climate Change Initiative, and the European CORINE land cover product. Comparing them against a land cover dataset created with ground surveys highlighted an underestimation of the forested area class in all three examined products. The accuracy metrics were reasonably high for the broad classes (forest vs. non-forest), while in the detailed classification, the comparison of the reference dataset with the three land cover products highlighted specific weaknesses. View this paper

Articles (236)

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,125 Views
19 Pages

Remote Sensing-Based Prediction of Temporal Changes in Land Surface Temperature and Land Use-Land Cover (LULC) in Urban Environments

  • Mohsin Ramzan,
  • Zulfiqar Ahmad Saqib,
  • Ejaz Hussain,
  • Junaid Aziz Khan,
  • Abid Nazir,
  • Muhammad Yousif Sardar Dasti,
  • Saqib Ali and
  • Nabeel Khan Niazi

19 September 2022

Pakistan has the highest rate of urbanization in South Asia. The climate change effects felt all over the world have become a priority for regulation agencies and governments at global and regional scales with respect assessing and mitigating the ris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,906 Views
16 Pages

19 September 2022

Cohesion is the main inter-controlled factor for the stability of fine-grained sediments in debris flow, and plays an important role in debris flow hazard early warning. At present, there is no cohesion rapid remote sensing detection model, which ser...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,033 Views
16 Pages

19 September 2022

The frequency of forest disturbances has increased under intensifying climate changes, and the economic impacts of forest disturbances should receive more attention. This paper systematically reviews models of the economic impacts of forest disturban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,263 Views
21 Pages

Open Spaces in the European Alps—GIS-Based Analysis and Implications for Spatial Planning from a Transnational Perspective

  • Hubert Job,
  • Constantin Meyer,
  • Oriana Coronado,
  • Simon Koblar,
  • Peter Laner,
  • Andrea Omizzolo,
  • Guido Plassmann,
  • Walter Riedler,
  • Philipp Vesely and
  • Arthur Schindelegger

19 September 2022

This article presents an open space concept of areas that are kept permanently free from buildings, technical infrastructure, and soil sealing. In the European Alps, space is scarce because of the topography; conflicts often arise between competing l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,618 Views
24 Pages

19 September 2022

Based on the concept of high-quality development, this paper constructs an urban ecological welfare evaluation framework, measures the urban ecological welfare performance in Jiangsu Province from 2005 to 2019 using a stochastic frontier production f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,068 Views
21 Pages

19 September 2022

The Kiukainen culture constitutes a poorly known phase at the end of the Stone Age in Finland, approximately 2500–1800 cal. BC. It is best known for its pottery, and most of the finds are from the coastal area of the Baltic Sea between Helsinki...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,926 Views
14 Pages

19 September 2022

Smart city development aims at sustainable development and high quality of urban life, which requires the participation of stakeholders. As a crucial stakeholder involved, the public’s key role has been widely concerned. However, a lack of publ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,580 Views
17 Pages

19 September 2022

With the rapid development of urbanization and industrial economy, urban green space and land resources have been squeezed. The problem of urban ecological environment pollution is becoming increasingly serious. With the concept of sustainable develo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,187 Views
13 Pages

18 September 2022

The external environment has an important impact on farmers’ willingness to withdraw from rural homesteads. Based on the data from 392 farmers in Wuhan and Suizhou City from July to November 2021, we explored the significant role that the exter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,466 Views
19 Pages

18 September 2022

Climate change and global warming significantly influence farmers’ activity and lead to lower production yield. To increase production without deteriorating the environment, it is vital to substitute chemical fertilizer with organic fertilizer....

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