Title of article :
Monitoring Losses of Semi-natural Vegetation to Agricultural Grassland from Satellite Imagery in the Antrim Coast and Glens AONB, Northern Ireland
Author/Authors :
Wilcock، نويسنده , , David and Cooper، نويسنده , , Alan، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1993
Pages :
13
From page :
157
To page :
169
Abstract :
Countryside management in Northern Ireland increasingly requires information on the changing distribution and composition of semi-natural vegetation within the Provinceʹs Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs). Field data, collected during a landscape ecological survey of the Antrim Coast and Glens AONB, were used o derive and calibrate supervised classifications of land use and semi-natural vegetation from satellite imagery. Increases in the amount of agricultural grassland and decreases in semi-natural vegetation over an 8-year period in the AONB were quantified from Landsat satellite imagery for 1976 and 1984. Using geographical information systems (GIS) software, land use and semi-natural vegetation maps for each of the two years were overlaid to locate where, within the AONB, change was most concentrated.
Keywords :
Satellite imagery , semi-natural habitat , land use , image processing
Journal title :
Journal of Environmental Management
Serial Year :
1993
Journal title :
Journal of Environmental Management
Record number :
1567977
Link To Document :
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