Mapping Long-term Land Use Change with Remote Sensing Data
The USGS’ Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) initiative is helping to better monitor the Earth and long-term land use change.
Calculating Land Use Mix with GIS
Alexandros Voukenas explains how to calculate land use mix indices (such as entropy) in a GIS environment.
Using GIS to Track Historical Land Cover Change and Growth Rate at Fort McCoy
Christian Rodriguez outlines the process to track land cover changes on a military installation using ArcGIS.
Mapping Land Cover by Stacking Landsat Imagery
Landsat 8 is offered as free, open data, which has led to new innovation in methods to better utilize such data for time series and complex scenes that are sometimes obstructed by clouds or dust.