This paper proposed a quantitative method of land use change trajectory, which means the succession among different land use types across time, to examine the effects of urbanization on an urban heat island (UHI).
This paper addresses the impact of the source and processing method of land use information for hydrological simulations on the long-term water balance of the Yzeron peri-urban catchment (150 km2), located near Lyon, France.
In the study, we perform the classic landscape-ecological method of land use mapping, and several spatial analytical tools provided by the GIS environment with statistical modeling using obtained spatial data.
Substantial goals of research at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development IOERR) are the development of methods for the detection of land use changes and for the description of this development by indicators, as well as the analysis and evaluation of the effects of such processes on selected environmental protection assets.
The methodology presented can be used to identify the impacts of degraded soils to surface and ground water quality as well as in the design of methods to minimize the impacts of land use practices.
Joerin et al. (2001) put forward an outranking multi-criteria analysis method and output a set of land use suitability maps incorporating complex criteria integrating several stakeholders' points of view.
Self-organizing maps may have a profound and significant role in merging decision-makers with adequate spatial information for health determinants and assessments suggesting a new integrative method of multi-dimension analysis of land use and injury data.
While this normalization method allowed detection of a range of land use, land cover, and phenological/biophysical changes in the Siberian boreal forest region studied here, it is necessary to further examine images representing a wide variety of ecoregions to thoroughly evaluate the TIC method against other normalization schemes.
Apart from a few notable exceptions (see below), satellite-based methods do not generally provide direct measurements of land use intensity.
Our findings suggest that the conventional land use method may be missing important information about the effect of land use on human health.
