A multi-criteria approach for an integrated land-cover-based assessment of ecosystem services provision to support landscape planning

Koschke, Lars; Fürst, Christine; Frank, Susanne; Makeschin, Franz

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.12.010

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“…At a national level, visual interpretation of high resolution satellite imagery was used to generate maps in the majority of countries while semi-automatic approaches were used in the rest, with national in-situ data, satellite image processing, and GIS integration/generalization (Diaz-Pacheco & Gutiérrez 2013). This product has been extensively used for a wide variety of applications such as population mapping (Gallego 2010), environmental protection (Feranec et al 2007), air pollution studies (Janssen et al 2008), and spatial planning and decision support systems (Koschke et al 2012). The products are generated in both vector and raster format at resolutions of 100m and 250m.…”

Section: Corine Land Covermentioning

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Assessing the suitability of GlobeLand30 for mapping land cover in Germany

Arsanjani

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Tayyebi

2016

International Journal of Digital Earth

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Global land cover maps have been widely employed as the base layer for a number of applications including climate change, food security, water quality, biodiversity, change detection and environmental planning. Due to the importance of land cover, there is a pressing need to increase the temporal and spatial resolution of global land cover maps. A recent advance in this direction has been the GlobeLand30 dataset derived from Landsat imagery, which has been developed by the National Geomatics Center of China (NGCC). Although overall accuracy is greater than 80%, the NGCC would like help in assessing the accuracy of the product in different regions of the world. To assist in this process, this study compares the GlobeLand30 product with existing public and online datasets, i.e. CORINE, Urban Atlas, OpenStreetMap and ATKIS for Germany in order to assess overall and per class agreement. The results of the analysis reveal high agreement of up to 92% between these datasets and GlobeLand30 but that large disagreements for certain classes are evident, in particular wetlands. However, overall, GlobeLand30 is shown to be a useful product for characterizing land cover in Germany, and paves the way for further regional and national validation efforts.

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Section: Corine Land Covermentioning

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Assessing the suitability of GlobeLand30 for mapping land cover in Germany

Arsanjani

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Tayyebi

2016

International Journal of Digital Earth

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“…Kienast et al 2009). Several terms have been used for the capacity of providing ecosystem services, such as ''supply'' (Schröter et al 2005;Burkhard et al 2012;Jones et al 2013), ''stock and capacity'' (Kienast et al 2009;Bateman et al 2011;Layke et al 2012;Helfenstein and Kienast 2014), and ''potential'' ES capacity (Koschke et al 2012). We recognize that the stock-flow paradigm-also referred to as the cascade model (Haines-Young and Potschin 2009)-has some shortcomings (see Norgaard 2010), but in the absence of a widely tested alternative we consider that it remains a useful conceptual construct at hand.…”

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Linking ecosystem services with landscape history

Bürgi

Silbernagel

et al. 2014

Landscape Ecol

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The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has become widely used because it bridges ecology and economics and links nature to society. ES may evolve over time in dynamic landscapes driven by myriad processes. However, the consequences of changes in key ES has not been considered adequately in current ES research. Here we propose a framework for linking ES with landscape history, which can help us better understand the evolution of ES over time. We illustrate the framework by a case study from Switzerland. Both the capacity of landscapes to supply ES and the realization and recognition of key ES are likely to change over time. This insight should have important implications for landscape sustainability and related scenario studies.

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“…Under such transitions, the land use and land cover are experiencing changes due to natural and anthropogenic causes. It is clear that land cover changes in the HKH is a driving factor for changes in the ecosystems and their services (Koschke et al 2012). In this mountainous region, forests play a key role in watershed protection, soil conservation and biodiversity maintenance (Acharya et al 2011).…”

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Understanding forest fire patterns and risk in Nepal using remote sensing, geographic information system and historical fire data

Matin

Chitale

Murthy

et al. 2017

Int. J. Wildland Fire

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Abstract. Forest fire is one of the key drivers of forest degradation in Nepal. Most of the forest fires are human-induced and occur during the dry season, with ,89% occurring in March, April and May. The inaccessible mountainous terrain and narrow time window of occurrence complicate suppression efforts. In this paper, forest fire patterns are analysed based on historical fire incidence data to explore the spatial and temporal patterns of forest fires in Nepal. Three main factors are involved in the ignition and spread of forest fires, namely fuel availability, temperature and ignition potential. Using these factors a spatially distributed fire risk index was calculated for Nepal based on a linear model using weights and ratings. The input parameters for the risk assessment model were generated using remote sensing based land cover, temperature and active fire data, and topographic data. A relative risk ranking was also calculated for districts and village development committees (VDCs). In total, 18 out of 75 districts were found with high risk of forest fires. The district and VDC level fire risk ranking could be utilised by the Department of Forest for prioritisation, preparedness and resource allocation for fire control and mitigation.Additional keywords: fire behaviour, fire danger, fire management, fire risk.

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A multi-criteria approach for an integrated land-cover-based assessment of ecosystem services provision to support landscape planning

Cited by 357 publications

References 45 publications

Assessing the suitability of GlobeLand30 for mapping land cover in Germany

Assessing the suitability of GlobeLand30 for mapping land cover in Germany

Linking ecosystem services with landscape history

Understanding forest fire patterns and risk in Nepal using remote sensing, geographic information system and historical fire data

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