Landscape Change Detection

Landscape change detection is a geospatial analytical technique that identifies and quantifies temporal changes in the spatial arrangement and composition of landscape elements.

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2017–2026

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Parents

Landscape Ecology

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Change AttributionChange Trajectory AnalysisCoastal ChangeDeforestationForest Disturbance DetectionLand Cover Change DetectionLand Use Change DetectionLandscape FragmentationMulti-temporal Image AnalysisPost-classification Comparison

Publications

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The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths

Éric F. Lambin, B. L. Turner, Helmut Geist et al. · Global Environmental Change · 2001 · 3.7K citations

Natural Resources, Land-use Planning, Physical Geography +12

Use of normalized difference built-up index in automatically mapping urban areas from TM imagery

Yong Zha, Jay Gao, Shaoxiang Ni · International Journal of Remote Sensing · 2003 · 2.8K citations

Computing, Geoinformatics, Physical Geography +17

Estimating historical changes in global land cover: Croplands from 1700 to 1992

Navin Ramankutty, Jonathan A. Foley · Global Biogeochemical Cycles · 1999 · 2.1K citations · Full text

Natural Resources, Land-use Planning, Cropping Systems +16

Detecting trends in forest disturbance and recovery using yearly Landsat time series: 1. LandTrendr — Temporal segmentation algorithms

Robert E. Kennedy, Zhiqiang Yang, Warren B. Cohen · Remote Sensing of Environment · 2010 · 1.8K citations

Natural Resources, Forestry, Landscape Change Detection +15

Continuous change detection and classification of land cover using all available Landsat data

Zhe Zhu, Curtis E. Woodcock · Remote Sensing of Environment · 2014 · 1.7K citations

Natural Resources, Earth Sciences, Geoinformatics +16

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Michael A. Wulder
Canadian Forest Service, Canada
41 publications · 4.2K citations
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Joanne C. White
Canadian Forest Service, Canada
28 publications · 3.2K citations
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Peng Gong
Tsinghua University, China
31 publications · 3.1K citations
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Nicholas C. Coops
University of British Columbia, Canada
26 publications · 2.6K citations
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Dengsheng Lu
Zhejiang A & F University, China
26 publications · 1.7K citations
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Remote Sensing of Environment
226 publications · 49K citations
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Remote Sensing
652 publications · 37.1K citations
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International Journal of Remote Sensing
431 publications · 32.5K citations
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IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
102 publications · 11K citations
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International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
JAG · 116 publications · 7.7K citations
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See also Landscape Change Detection
Core Methods	Post-classification Comparison Object-based Image Analysis Landscape Metrics Pixel-based Classification Visual Interpretation Image Segmentation Support Vector Machines Maximum Likelihood Classification Landscape Metrics Computation
Applications	Urban Expansion Deforestation Monitoring Farmland Conversion Urban Planning Natural Resource Management Disaster Impact Assessment Ecological Monitoring Wetland Degradation Assessment Desertification Biodiversity Monitoring Coastal Change Detection Snow Cover Monitoring
Data Sources	Lidar Data Acquisition Aerial Agricultural Photography High-resolution Satellite Image Analysis
Evaluation	Mean Average Precision Precision Recall Elections Confidence Intervals Area Under The Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve Mcnemar's Test Kappa Coefficient Image Differencing Uncertainty Quantification Cross-validation Root Mean Squared Error Analysis Visual Inspection
Limitations	Spatial Heterogeneity Temporal Variability Landscape Fragmentation Small Object Detection Model Interpretability Computational Complexity