Assessment of Land Cover Changes in the Hinterland of Barranquilla (Colombia) Using Landsat Imagery and Logistic Regression

Assessment of Land Cover Changes in the Hinterland of Barranquilla (Colombia) Using Landsat Imagery and Logistic Regression

Barranquilla is known as a dynamically growing city in the Colombian Caribbean. Urbanisation induces land use and land cover (LULC) changes in the city and its hinterland affecting the region’s climate and biodiversity. This paper aims to identify the trends of land use and land cover chan...

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Main Authors: Henry Schubert, Andrés Caballero Calvo, Markus Rauchecker, Oscar Rojas-Zamora, Grischa Brokamp, Brigitta Schütt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-12-01
Series:Land
Subjects:
Colombian Caribbean
urbanisation
tropical dry forest
random forest classifier
woody vegetation changes
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/7/4/152

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