Journal article
Assessing land cover change resulting from large surface mining development
Abstract
A remote sensing based land cover change assessment methodology is presented and applied to a case study of the Oil Sands Mining Development in Athabasca, Alta., Canada. The primary impact was assessed using an information extraction method applied to two LANDSAT scenes. The analysis based on derived land cover maps shows a decrease of natural vegetation in the study area (715,094ha) for 2001 approximately −8.64% relative to 1992. Secondary …
Authors
Latifovic R; Fytas K; Chen J; Paraszczak J
Journal
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 29–48
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
May 2005
DOI
10.1016/j.jag.2004.11.003
ISSN
1569-8432