Land use and land cover data changes in Indian Ocean Islands: Case study of Unguja in Zanzibar Island

Land use and land cover changes will continue to affect resilient human communities and ecosystems as a result of climate change. However, an assessment of land use and land cover changes over time in Indian Ocean Islands is less documented. The land use/cover data changes over 10 years at smaller g...

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Autores principales: Mwalusepo, Sizah, Muli, Eliud, Faki, Asha, Raina, Suresh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Data Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5288318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28180140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.01.010
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Sumario:Land use and land cover changes will continue to affect resilient human communities and ecosystems as a result of climate change. However, an assessment of land use and land cover changes over time in Indian Ocean Islands is less documented. The land use/cover data changes over 10 years at smaller geographical scale across Unguja Island in Zanzibar were analyzed. Downscaling of the data was obtained from SERVIR through partnership with Kenya-based Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) database (http://www.servirglobal.net), and clipped down in ArcMap (Version 10.1) to Unguja Island. SERVIR and RCMRD Land Cover Dataset are mainly 30 m multispectral images include Landsat TM and ETM+Multispectral Images. Landscape ecology Statistics tool (LecoS) was used to analysis the land use and land cover changes. The data provide information on the status of the land use and land cover changes along the Unguja Island in Zanzibar. The data is of great significance to the future research on global change.

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