Inhabitants near Poyang Lake, in the Central Yangtze River Basin, China, are vulnerable to loss of life and livelihood because of the interactions of flooding and land-use policies and decisions. We analyzed implications of land-cover patterns for vulnerability to flooding in the Poyang Lake Region. Land-cover and change were mapped using multitemporal Landsat TM/ETM+ images… Continue reading Land-cover change and vulnerability to flooding near Poyang Lake, Jiangxi Province, China
Keyword: Land Cover (LC)
Changing regimes: Forested land cover dynamics in central Siberia 1974 to 2001
The twentieth century saw fundamental shifts in northern Eurasian political and land-management paradigms, in Russia culminating in the political transition of 1991. We used the 1972 to 2001 Landsat archive bracketing this transition to observe change trends in southern central Siberian Russia in primarily forested study sites, Landsat resolved conifer, mixed, deciduous and young forest;… Continue reading Changing regimes: Forested land cover dynamics in central Siberia 1974 to 2001