Indicators are increasingly needed in landscape assessment. Over recent years, a wide
range of methods and assessment frameworks were developed to describe and evaluate …

Under conditions of rapid urbanization, quantitative measurement of the expansion
characteristics of urban landscapes and evaluation of their spatial and temporal …

Land use and land cover change (LULCC) has directly played an important role in the
observed climate change. In this paper, we considered Dujiangyan City and its environs …

Assessing the performance of land change simulation models is a critical step when
predicting the future landscape scenario. The study was conducted in the district of …

As the global ecosystem has been severely disturbed by an increasing number of human
activities at different scales, remote sensing technology, as an effective quantitative measure …

Forest degradation is a serious environmental issue that has significant implications for
ecological stability, biodiversity, and human well-being. Identifying the extent and severity of …

There is an increasing contradiction between humanity's growing demand for natural
resources and relatively limited supplements. Thus, ecological security has received …

Understanding of the Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) change, its transitions and
Landscape risk (LR) evaluation in earthquake-affected areas is important for planning and …

In the present paper, land use/land cover (LULC) change was predicted in the Greater
Isfahan area (GIA), central Iran. The GIA has been growing rapidly in recent years, and …

Rapid urban growth in develo** countries is causing a great number of urban planning
problems. To control and analyse this growth, new and better methods for urban land use …