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- Presents an experimental case study with a step-by-step methodology and clear and simple illustrations and tables
- Deals with a politically important area (Syria and Euphrates-River-Basin)
- Important scientific advance: work regarding covered period, geographical location and the used data is currently underrepresented in the literature
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Geography (BRIEFSGEOGRAPHY)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Although the development of remote sensing techniques focuses greatly on construction of new sensors with higher spatial and spectral resolution, it is advisable to also use data of older sensors (especially, the LANDSAT-mission) when the historical mapping of land use/land cover and monitoring of their dynamics are needed. Using data from LANDSAT missions as well as from Terra (ASTER) Sensors, the authors shows in his book maps of historical land cover changes with a focus on agricultural irrigation projects.
The kernel of this study was whether, how and to what extent applying the various remotely sensed data that were used here, would be an effective approach to classify the historical and current land use/land cover, to monitor the dynamics of land use/land cover during the last four decades, to map the development of the irrigation areas, and to classify the major strategic winter- and summer-irrigated agricultural crops in the study area of the Euphrates River Basin.
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of Geography, Remote Sensing, University of Jena, Jena, Germany
Wafi Al-Fares
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Historical Land Use/Land Cover Classification Using Remote Sensing
Book Subtitle: A Case Study of the Euphrates River Basin in Syria
Authors: Wafi Al-Fares
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00624-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00623-9Published: 24 July 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00624-6Published: 25 June 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-4165
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4173
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 204
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 86 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Agriculture