Characterizing Degradation Gradients through Land Cover Change Analysis in Rural Eastern Cape, South Africa

Characterizing Degradation Gradients through Land Cover Change Analysis in Rural Eastern Cape, South Africa

Land cover change analysis was performed for three catchments in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa, for two time steps (2000 and 2014), to characterize landscape conversion trajectories for sustained landscape health. Land cover maps were derived: (1) from existing data (2000); and (2) through ob...

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Main Authors: Zahn Münch, Perpetua I. Okoye, Lesley Gibson, Sukhmani Mantel, Anthony Palmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-02-01
Series:Geosciences
Subjects:
land cover change
remote sensing
object-based image analysis
OBIA
Landsat
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/7/1/7

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