Classifying Urban and Agricultural Land-Use Patterns Using Earth Observation Data
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 1234
Special Issue Editors
Interests: data mining; machine learning; remote sensing; satellites; aerial photographs
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Interests: UAS; hydromorphology; bank erosion; hydrology; agricultural mapping
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urban and agricultural areas are important scenes of life; therefore, a better understanding of underlying processes is crucial for the future. Beyond the realization of trends in urban sprawl and intensive agriculture, the pattern of different land use/land cover type is also an important feature which has received less attention. Remote sensing, with its various platforms (from satellite imagery to uncrewed aerial vehicles), represents an efficient basis for data collection. Thus, the interpretation of land use from ecological and landscape ecological perspectives is important, and revealing the positive and/or negative processes can provide guidance for decision makers, agricultural practitioners and urban planners.
The aim of this Special Issue is to focus on the pattern of land use/land cover, providing a deeper understanding of the processes of landscapes under intensive anthropogenic activities, both in terms of patterns and in the context of Nature protection. We encourage authors to apply methods and approaches from different disciplines.
The topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Relations of urban development and pattern;
- Pattern of extensive and intensive agriculture;
- Role of water and/or topography in landscape pattern;
- Nature conservation issues related to urban sprawl and agriculture;
- Scale dependence and minimum mapping unit in pattern-based landscape analysis.
Prof. Dr. Szilárd Szabó
Dr. László Bertalan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing platforms
- pattern analysis
- landscape metrics
- landscape ecology
- landscape protection and conservation
- urban development
- agricultural management
