Land Cover Changes Utilising Landsat Satellite Imageries for the Kumasi Metropolis and Its Adjoining Municipalities in Ghana (1986–2022)

Land Cover Changes Utilising Landsat Satellite Imageries for the Kumasi Metropolis and Its Adjoining Municipalities in Ghana (1986–2022)

Forest loss, unbridled urbanisation, and the loss of arable lands have become contentious issues for the sustainable management of land. Landsat satellite images for 1986, 2003, 2013, and 2022, covering the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly and its adjoining municipalities, were used to analyse the Land...

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Main Authors:	Bernard Fosu Frimpong, Addo Koranteng, Thomas Atta-Darkwa, Opoku Fosu Junior, Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2023-02-01
Series:	Sensors
Subjects:	urbanisation forest loss land use land cover support vector machine correlation deforestation
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/5/2644

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