SPATIO-TEMPORAL ASSESSMENT OF MARGALLA HILLS FOREST BY USING LANDSAT IMAGERY FOR YEAR 2000 AND 2018

Environmental imbalance due to human activities has shown serious threat to ecosystem and produced negative impacts. The main goal of this study is to identify, monitor and classify temporal changes of forest cover, build up and open spaces in Margalla Hills National Park, Islamabad. Geographic Info...

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Main Authors: R. Batool, K. Javaid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2018-04-01
Series:The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Online Access:https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-3/69/2018/isprs-archives-XLII-3-69-2018.pdf
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description Environmental imbalance due to human activities has shown serious threat to ecosystem and produced negative impacts. The main goal of this study is to identify, monitor and classify temporal changes of forest cover, build up and open spaces in Margalla Hills National Park, Islamabad. Geographic Information Sciences (GISc) and Remote Sensing (RS) techniques has been used for the assessment of analysis. LANDSAT-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) and LANDSAT-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) were utilized for obtaining data of year 2000 and 2018. Temporal changes were evaluated after applying supervised classification and discrimination was analyzed by Per-Pixel based change detection. Results depicts forest cover decrease from 87 % to 74 % whereas build up has increased from 5 % to 7 % over the span. Consequences also justify the presence of open land in study area that has been increased from 2 % to 7 % respectively.
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spelling doaj.art-8445fe744a8141adb4b0601dae7e5c302022-12-22T01:15:52ZengCopernicus PublicationsThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences1682-17502194-90342018-04-01XLII-3697210.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-69-2018SPATIO-TEMPORAL ASSESSMENT OF MARGALLA HILLS FOREST BY USING LANDSAT IMAGERY FOR YEAR 2000 AND 2018R. Batool0K. Javaid1The University of the Punjab Quaid-E-Azam Campus Lahore, PakistanThe University of the Punjab Quaid-E-Azam Campus Lahore, PakistanEnvironmental imbalance due to human activities has shown serious threat to ecosystem and produced negative impacts. The main goal of this study is to identify, monitor and classify temporal changes of forest cover, build up and open spaces in Margalla Hills National Park, Islamabad. Geographic Information Sciences (GISc) and Remote Sensing (RS) techniques has been used for the assessment of analysis. LANDSAT-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) and LANDSAT-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) were utilized for obtaining data of year 2000 and 2018. Temporal changes were evaluated after applying supervised classification and discrimination was analyzed by Per-Pixel based change detection. Results depicts forest cover decrease from 87 % to 74 % whereas build up has increased from 5 % to 7 % over the span. Consequences also justify the presence of open land in study area that has been increased from 2 % to 7 % respectively.https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-3/69/2018/isprs-archives-XLII-3-69-2018.pdf
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SPATIO-TEMPORAL ASSESSMENT OF MARGALLA HILLS FOREST BY USING LANDSAT IMAGERY FOR YEAR 2000 AND 2018
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title SPATIO-TEMPORAL ASSESSMENT OF MARGALLA HILLS FOREST BY USING LANDSAT IMAGERY FOR YEAR 2000 AND 2018
title_full SPATIO-TEMPORAL ASSESSMENT OF MARGALLA HILLS FOREST BY USING LANDSAT IMAGERY FOR YEAR 2000 AND 2018
title_fullStr SPATIO-TEMPORAL ASSESSMENT OF MARGALLA HILLS FOREST BY USING LANDSAT IMAGERY FOR YEAR 2000 AND 2018
title_full_unstemmed SPATIO-TEMPORAL ASSESSMENT OF MARGALLA HILLS FOREST BY USING LANDSAT IMAGERY FOR YEAR 2000 AND 2018
title_short SPATIO-TEMPORAL ASSESSMENT OF MARGALLA HILLS FOREST BY USING LANDSAT IMAGERY FOR YEAR 2000 AND 2018
title_sort spatio temporal assessment of margalla hills forest by using landsat imagery for year 2000 and 2018
url https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-3/69/2018/isprs-archives-XLII-3-69-2018.pdf
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