Buyantuyev, A., Wu, J., & Gries, C. (2007).
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28(2), 269–291.
To monitor the growth, and development of urban environments, it is constantly required to analyse the various parameters contributing to it. Landscape contributions include the canopy cover/ vegetation cover. The study area is the Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAPLTER) site, which is centred at the city of Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The study maps the site areas using various software techniques and analyses the patterns of growth and change in land use, while mapping them in terms of graphs. It compares all three methods for anaylsis and concludes that SMA is a rather accurate method of analysing vegetation cover.
Tags: Vegetation cover, data analysis, software, canopy cover
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