Results also suggest that LUCC change decisions which do not consider policy measures for ES protection tend to generate land use patterns providing lower levels of ES.
New cloud-based computing platforms and satellite sensors offer opportunities for generating land cover maps designed to meet the spatial and temporal requirements of specific applications.
Attempts are made to quantify limiting factors resulting from the coarse spatial resolution of data used for generating land cover information at regional and global levels.
It is concluded that, although the SRTM DEM is more suitable than the ASTER GDEM2 for generating land components, higher-resolution DEMs such as the GEOEYE DEM and SUDEM L2 are required for delineating meaningful land components.
The study also finds the Maximum Likelihood Classifier to be reliable in generating land use thematic layer maps from which soil conservation measures can be studied with ease in mountainous areas.
A supervised per-pixel classification approach using a decision tree algorithm was employed to generate land cover maps from Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery acquired in 1995, 2004, and 2010.
However, this development also generates considerable critique as it is argued to erode traditional values and lifestyles as well as eroding collective property rights and thereby generating land and water conflicts (Woodhouse 2003; Beyene 2009; Beyene 2010; Angassa and Oba 2008; Lesorogol 2008; Napier and Desta 2011).
Environmental and disaster reduction satellite data (Fan et al. 2012), GF-1 (Zhang et al. 2015), GF-4 (Wang and He 2017), and ZY-3 (Wang et al. 2015) satellite data can also be used as base images to generate land cover datasets for high-risk areas by using segmentation, classification, and artificial revision methods, such as ChinaCover (Wu et al. 2013).
Likewise, satellites can assist in generating land use intensity system metrics, for example by measuring reference states and changes in ecosystem properties such as net primary production [ 31], carbon stocks [ 30] or forest tree species composition [ 32,33], although many of these approaches are still experimental and cannot readily be applied across broad geographic extents.
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