Example of forest to mining conversion is seen in the Landsat image
Detailed Description
Example of the forest to mining conversion is seen in the Landsat image (bottom image).
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Public Domain.
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Comparison with Land Cover Status and Trends Data
The topographic changes detected in this study usually have a corresponding land cover change. To examine this relationship more closely, features in the topographic change inventory were compared with data from an ongoing study of the status and trends of land cover in the United States. The status and trends project uses a sampling-based approach in which land cover maps and change products are...
Mining
According to the label assigned from the NLCD to each change polygon, mining is the predominant land use/land cover represented in the topographic change inventory. This is not surprising, as surface mining operations have been previously identified in the literature as the largest direct anthropogenic process in terms of the amount of material moved. Further evidence of the dominance of mining as...
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Comparison with Land Cover Status and Trends Data
The topographic changes detected in this study usually have a corresponding land cover change. To examine this relationship more closely, features in the topographic change inventory were compared with data from an ongoing study of the status and trends of land cover in the United States. The status and trends project uses a sampling-based approach in which land cover maps and change products are...
Mining
According to the label assigned from the NLCD to each change polygon, mining is the predominant land use/land cover represented in the topographic change inventory. This is not surprising, as surface mining operations have been previously identified in the literature as the largest direct anthropogenic process in terms of the amount of material moved. Further evidence of the dominance of mining as...