Essays about: "Land Cover Change"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 168 essays containing the words Land Cover Change.

  1. 16. Evaluating the impact of agriculture on albedo using Sentinel-2 data in southern Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Victor Andréasson; [2023]
    Keywords : Physical geography and ecosystem science; Remote sensing; Sentinel-2; Albedo; Agriculture; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The climate impact of food production plays a big part in the anthropogenic climate impact. Mitigation strategies from this sector are hence of great importance. One area which mainly has been used to calculate climate impact is albedo, the overall reflectance of incoming radiation in all directions. READ MORE

  3. 17. Holocene vegetation change and its correlates in fennoscandia

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap

    Author : Raphaela Infanger; [2022-10-21]
    Keywords : Fennoscandia; Holocene; human impact; climate impact; vegetation change; fossil pollen;

    Abstract : Climatic and anthropogenic legacy has differently impacted vegetation and its community composition. To determine the extent and origin of changes across Fennoscandia, representative regions were defined that entailed sufficient spatial and temporal data. READ MORE

  4. 18. A GIS Study on Land-Cover Changes in the Finnish Reindeer Summer Pastures Over the Last 65 years : The possible effects of land use change and climate change on reindeer summer pastures in northern Finland

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi

    Author : Emma Pulkkinen; [2022]
    Keywords : Reindeer pastures; reindeer summer pastures; land cover change; northern Finland;

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  5. 19. Damage Assessment of the 2022 Tongatapu Tsunami : With Remote Sensing

    University essay from KTH/Geoinformatik

    Author : Milton Larsson; [2022]
    Keywords : remote sensing; land cover classification; Sentinel-1; Sentinel-2; change detection; change vector analysis;

    Abstract : The Island of Tongatapu, Tonga, was struck by a tsunami on January 15, 2022. Internet was cut off from the island, which made remote sensing a valuable tool for the assessment of damages. Through land cover classification, change vector analysis and log-ratio image differencing, damages caused by the tsunami were assessed remotely in this thesis. READ MORE

  6. 20. Regenerative agriculture : a contested open moment

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Rickard Hedling; [2022]
    Keywords : regenerative agriculture; alternative food networks; food sovereignty; political ecology; discourse food systems;

    Abstract : Agriculture is both heavily impacted by climate change and responsible for greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change. Transitioning towards more sustainable agricultural practices is therefore imperative and requires new ways of thinking about agricultural knowledge and technologies. READ MORE