| Title | Estimating land use change over Canada's arctic/sub-arctic region |
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| Author | Fraser, R H ;
Olthof, I; Girouard, G; Pavlic, G; Clouston, A; Pouliot, D; Chen, W |
| Source | IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium proceedings 4241684, 2006 p. 2076-2079, https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2006.537 |
| Year | 2006 |
| Alt Series | Natural Resources Canada, Contribution Series 20181361 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Subjects | geophysics; Nature and Environment; remote sensing |
| Program | Climate Change
Geoscience |
| Released | 2006 07 01 |
| Abstract | Estimates of land use change (LUC) and resulting Greenhouse Gas (GHG) fluxes in Canada's North are needed for reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This paper presents
a remote sensing based approach and results for estimating non-forest LUC over Canada's arctic/sub-arctic zone. Spatial datasets portraying the occurrence of cultural features were used to identify high probability LUC areas within a 359 million ha
northern study region. These targeted areas were analyzed using multi-temporal Landsat satellite imagery from circa 1985, 1990, and 2000. A Land Use Change Mapping System for Canada's North (LUCMAP-N) was developed by combining several image
normalization and change detection techniques recently devised at Natural Resources Canada's Earth Sciences Sector (NRCanESS). It is estimated that the average rate of LUC during 1985-2000 over Canada's arctic/sub-arctic region was 666 ha/yr.
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| GEOSCAN ID | 311715 |
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