he effect of land use type on soil function within an ecosystem can be assessed and monitored using soil quality indices. The research examined effects of land use change from natural forest to tea farming (with the same ...

This research focused on the determination of land cover thresholds that have a significant

impact on runoff generation and soil loss at the pedon scale. For this purpose, six erosion microplots

were set up on grassland and shrubland...

Land cover is one of basic data layers in geographic information system for physical planning and environmental monitoring. Until recently Maximum Likelihood classifier (MLC) has been the most common method used for supervised classification...

This article uses the GlobeLand30 maps of land cover to characterize the difference between years 2000 and 2010 in Asia. Methods of Intensity Analysis and Difference Components dissect the transition matrix for nine categories: Barren, Grass...