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Monitoring land use/cover changes using remotely sensed imagery in Isfahan, Iran

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Title Monitoring land use/cover changes using remotely sensed imagery in Isfahan, Iran
 
Creator Nadoushan, Mozhgan Ahmadi
Abari, Maryam Foroughi
Radnezhad, Hadi
Sadeghi, Masoumeh
 
Subject Change detection
Landsat TM
Land use
Post-classification comparison
 
Description 538-544
Present study studies land use/cover changes in Isfahan urban area located in the center of Iran from 1985 to 2010 using multi temporal Landsat TM images. Overall accuracy and kappa of was more than 85% for all maps. Land use/cover maps of 1985,‌ 1998 and 2010 were compared using the post-classification comparison method for detecting changes. The results showed that the urban lands faced the maximum of 16.4% incremental changes from 1985 to 1998 and this change was 9.03% in vegetation. Decreasing changes related to the barren lands was equal to -13.05%. Trend of the changes from 1998 to 2010 was 33.38% incremental in urban lands as well as, the decreasing changes occurred in the vegetation by -9.42% and in the barren lands equal to -0.74%.
 
Date 2017-03-17T06:32:05Z
2017-03-17T06:32:05Z
2017-03
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/40807
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.46(03) [March 2017]