Applications of GIS-Based Methods in Land Change Science
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Systems and Global Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2025 | Viewed by 38
Special Issue Editor
Interests: land use; special development goals; spatial analysis; mapping; geoinformation; geovisualization; spatial statistics
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Dear Colleagues,
In the face of the emergence of land change science (LCS), geographical information sciences (GIS) have claimed a central role in observing, quantifying, and monitoring changes in land use and land cover. In this Special Issue, applications of GIS-based methods that are related to LCS will be presented.
The development of geographical information technologies has significantly changed the approach to land use, spatial planning, and the management of natural resources. GIS considerably simplifies territorial planning by analyzing the necessary data concerning their spatial relationship, allowing for the complex assessment of the situation and creating a basis for the adoption of more exact and scientifically reasonable decisions in the course of land use.
To assess the current land use situation and the possibility of modeling possible future changes associated with complex adopted measures, GIS allows the integration of diverse spatial data; for example, data about soils, climate, vegetation, and others. For the purposes of land use, GIS allows the monitoring of anthropogenic influences in a particular area, estimating the scales and rates of the degradation of green cover, flora, and fauna, while also determining the planned directions of land use changes in accordance with the special development goals.
This Special Issue aims to discuss GIS-based methods applications and their ability to analyze valuable information and data in land change sciences. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Land use/cover changes;
- Spatial and temporal patterns of land cover changes;
- GIS in soil monitoring, digital soil mapping, and soil erosion;
- GIS in landslides, slopes, aspects, and vegetation analysis;
- GIS applications in urban planning;
- Land degradation risk assessment;
- Land management;
- Natural resources management;
- Multicriteria analysis.
Dr. Beata Calka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- land change science (LCS)
- geographical information sciences (GIS)
- spatial data integration land use monitoring
- land use planning
- land degradation
- natural resource management
- multicriteria analysis
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