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    Land cover is the physical material at the land surface of Earth. Land covers include flora, concrete, built structures, bare ground, and temporary water...
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    land use. The major effect of land use on land cover since 1750 has been deforestation of temperate regions. More recent significant effects of land use...
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  • Land cover maps are tools that provide vital information about the Earth's land use and cover patterns. They aid policy development, urban planning, and...
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    Land change science refers to the interdisciplinary study of changes in climate, land use, and land cover. Land change science specifically seeks to evaluate...
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    Earth's land surface is almost entirely covered by regolith, a layer of rock, soil, and minerals that forms the outer part of the crust. Land plays an...
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  • Look up Cover, cover, covered, or covers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cover or covers may refer to: Another name for a lid Cover (philately), generic...
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    Finland (redirect from Fin land)
    varies from humid continental in the south to boreal in the north. The land cover is predominantly boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded...
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    resolution land cover database of HKH generated using public domain Landsat images demonstrated that grassland was the most dominant land cover, followed...
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    cross-border equity issues between India and Nepal. Nepal's land cover is dominated by forests, which cover 39.09% of the country's total geographical area, followed...
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  • identify land cover objects. Change detection is an image analysis problem, consisting of the identification of places where the land cover has changed...
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  • Forest cover is the amount of trees that covers a particular area of land. It may be measured as relative (in percent) or absolute (in square kilometres/square...
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  • abandoning and isolating those who chose to remain in the city. "No Man's Land" covered, in detail, a period in the lives of the residents of the city, explaining...
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    New Zealand (redirect from Staaten land)
    February 2024. Retrieved 20 November 2023. "The New Zealand Land Cover Database". New Zealand Land Cover Database 2. Ministry for the Environment. 1 July 2009...
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  • Candy Land (also known as Candyland) is a simple racing board game created by Eleanor Abbott and published by Milton Bradley in 1948. The game requires...
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    Global land cover validation exercises are feasible as images less than 2.5 meter resolution provide very detailed information on land cover with global...
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    Landslide (redirect from Land slip)
    the amount of water infiltrating the soil. temporal variation in land use and land cover (LULC): it includes the human abandonment of farming areas, e.g...
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    Terrain (redirect from Land surface)
    of "terrain" is very broad, encompassing not only landform but land use and land cover, surface transport infrastructure, built structures and human geography...
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    Grassland (redirect from Grass land)
    semi-natural grasslands, and agricultural grasslands. They cover 31–69% of the Earth's land area. Included among the variety of definitions for grasslands...
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    IKONOS satellite. Maps of land cover and land use from thematic mapping can be used to prospect for minerals, detect or monitor land usage, detect invasive...
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    to absorb rainfall and floodwater. Bayous have experienced trends of land cover loss and conversion to impervious surfaces, of which has been associated...
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    Landsat images to generate a land cover map of Mozambique's mangrove forest. The main objective was to measure the mangrove cover and above ground biomass...
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    5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ. It does not include land that is predominantly under...
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    means no infiltration occurs. Vegetative cover of the land also impacts the infiltration capacity. Vegetative cover can lead to more interception of precipitation...
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  • Sand Land (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine...
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    that covers emissions and removals of greenhouse gases resulting from direct human-induced land use such as settlements and commercial uses, land-use change...
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    applications such as agricultural monitoring, emergencies management, land cover classification, and water quality. Sentinel-2 has been developed and is...
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  • W (1994). "Global Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: An Overview.". In Meyer W, Turner II BL (eds.). Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective...
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    dynamics including changes in Earth's cloud cover, radiation budget and processes occurring in the oceans, on land, and in the lower atmosphere. Support and...
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    Basel-Landschaft (redirect from Basel-Land)
    Liestal. Arealstatistik Land Cover - Kantone und Grossregionen nach 6 Hauptbereichen accessed 27 October 2017 Canton of Basel-Land Statistics, Wohnbevölkerung...
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    the 20th century, the forest cover of the country dropped from 70 percent down to 20 percent. Based on an analysis of land use pattern maps and a road...
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