Mapping structural attributes of tropical dry forests by combining SAR and high‐resolution satellite imagery data

Author(s):  
Juan Andres‐Mauricio ◽  
José René Valdez‐Lazalde ◽  
Stephanie P. George‐Chacón ◽  
J. Luis Hernández‐Stefanoni
1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-147
Author(s):  
Asadi Asadi

Law No. 6 of 2014 concerning Villages provides additional evidence that Indonesia has paid more attention and respect to the existence of villages. The significant amount of village expansion lately is not matched with the clarity of village boundaries that may rise in to potential conflicts. Ideally, the entire instruments to structure village boundaries must first be prepared. One of the instruments needed is the availability of large scale of basic maps (topographical maps) as the main instrument of making a village map. Unfortunately, the large-scale topographical maps are not available yet. This paper provides an alternative acceleration of village boundaries arrangement using High Resolution Satellite Imagery Data that has passed orthorectified process. By involving the community and village leaders in the process of structuring boundaries, and supported by the spirit of fraternity, all problems occured during the activity of village boundaries can be solved with the very best solution.Keywords: village boundary, High Resolution Satellite Imagery Data, spirit of fraternityUndang-Undang Nomor 6 Tahun 2014 tentang Desa memberikan tambahan bukti bahwa negara semakin memperhatikan dan menghormati keberadaan desa. Adanya pemekaran wilayah desa yang signifikan akhir-akhir ini, tidak diimbangi dengan kejelasan batas wilayah desa,berpotensi menimbulkan konflik. Idealnya, seluruh instrumen untuk melakukan penataan batas wilayah desa harus terlebih dahulu disiapkan. Salah satu instrumen tersebut adalah tersedianya peta dasar (peta rupabumi) skala besar sebagai bahan utama pembuatan peta desa. Sayangnya ketersediaan peta rupabumi skala besar belum tersedia. Tulisan ini memberikan alternatif percepatan penataan batas wilayah desa yang dapat menggunakan Citra Satelit Resolusi Tinggi (CSRT) yang sudah melalui proses ortorektifikasi. Dengan melibatkan masyarakat dan tokoh masyarakat desa dalam melakukan proses penataan batas wilayah, dan dengan didukung semangat persaudaraan, diharapkan permasalahan batas wilayah desa dapat diselesaikan dengan sebaik-baiknya.Kata kunci: batas desa, metode kartometrik, CSRT, semangat persaudaraan


Author(s):  
Claudia Canedo Rosso ◽  
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler ◽  
Georg Pflug ◽  
Bruno Condori ◽  
Ronny Berndtsson

Abstract. Implementation of agriculturally related early warning systems is fundamental for the management of droughts. Additionally, risk-based approaches are superior in tackling future drought hazards. Due to data-scarcity in many regions, high resolution satellite imagery data are becoming widely used. Focusing on ENSO warm and cold phases, we employ a risk-based approach for drought assessment in the Bolivian Altiplano using satellite imagery data and application of an early warning system. We use a newly established high resolution satellite dataset and test its accuracy as well as performance to similar (but with less resolution) datasets available for the Bolivian Altiplano. It is shown that during the El Niño years (warm ENSO phase), the result is great difference in risk and crop yield. Furthermore, the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) can be used to target specific hot spots on a very local scale. As a consequence, ENSO early warning forecasts as well as possible magnitudes of crop deficits could be established by the government, including an identification of possible hotspots during the growing season. Our approach therefore should not only help in determining the magnitude of assistance needed for farmers on the local scale but also enable a pro-active approach to disaster risk management against droughts that can include economic-related instruments such as insurance as well as risk reduction instruments such as irrigation.


Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 648
Author(s):  
Guie Li ◽  
Zhongliang Cai ◽  
Yun Qian ◽  
Fei Chen

Enriching Asian perspectives on the rapid identification of urban poverty and its implications for housing inequality, this paper contributes empirical evidence about the utility of image features derived from high-resolution satellite imagery and machine learning approaches for identifying urban poverty in China at the community level. For the case of the Jiangxia District and Huangpi District of Wuhan, image features, including perimeter, line segment detector (LSD), Hough transform, gray-level cooccurrence matrix (GLCM), histogram of oriented gradients (HoG), and local binary patterns (LBP), are calculated, and four machine learning approaches and 25 variables are applied to identify urban poverty and relatively important variables. The results show that image features and machine learning approaches can be used to identify urban poverty with the best model performance with a coefficient of determination, R2, of 0.5341 and 0.5324 for Jiangxia and Huangpi, respectively, although some differences exist among the approaches and study areas. The importance of each variable differs for each approach and study area; however, the relatively important variables are similar. In particular, four variables achieved relatively satisfactory prediction results for all models and presented obvious differences in varying communities with different poverty levels. Housing inequality within low-income neighborhoods, which is a response to gaps in wealth, income, and housing affordability among social groups, is an important manifestation of urban poverty. Policy makers can implement these findings to rapidly identify urban poverty, and the findings have potential applications for addressing housing inequality and proving the rationality of urban planning for building a sustainable society.


2007 ◽  
Vol 135 (12) ◽  
pp. 4202-4213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yarice Rodriguez ◽  
David A. R. Kristovich ◽  
Mark R. Hjelmfelt

Abstract Premodification of the atmosphere by upwind lakes is known to influence lake-effect snowstorm intensity and locations over downwind lakes. This study highlights perhaps the most visible manifestation of the link between convection over two or more of the Great Lakes lake-to-lake (L2L) cloud bands. Emphasis is placed on L2L cloud bands observed in high-resolution satellite imagery on 2 December 2003. These L2L cloud bands developed over Lake Superior and were modified as they passed over Lakes Michigan and Erie and intervening land areas. This event is put into a longer-term context through documentation of the frequency with which lake-effect and, particularly, L2L cloud bands occurred over a 5-yr time period over different areas of the Great Lakes region.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 439-448
Author(s):  
Edward Collier ◽  
Supratik Mukhopadhyay ◽  
Kate Duffy ◽  
Sangram Ganguly ◽  
Geri Madanguit ◽  
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