Title :
Rates of land cover change in Australia 1990/91-95
Author :
Barson, Michele ; Randall, Lucy ; Bordas, Vivienne
Author_Institution :
Bur. of Rural Sci., Kingston, ACT, Australia
Abstract :
A collaborative project was established to document changes in Australia´s forest cover (woody vegetation with a height exceeding 2 metres and a crown cover density of 20 percent or more) over the period 1990-95. Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data for 1990/91 and 1995 were used in conjunction with vegetation and a range of ancillary data sets to establish: the extent of woody vegetation in Australia´s more intensively used agricultural areas in 1990, the rates of clearing of this woody vegetation and tree planting 1990/91-1995, and the reasons for clearing and planting, and the types of vegetation cleared
Keywords :
forestry; vegetation mapping; AD 1990 to 1995; Australia; Landsat Thematic Mapper data; TM data; agricultural areas; clearing; crown cover density; forest cover; land cover change; planting; tree planting; woody vegetation; Agriculture; Australia; Carbon dioxide; Costs; Global warming; Layout; Remote sensing; Satellite broadcasting; Soil; Vegetation mapping;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976561
