Mapping Land Use Land Cover Change in the Lower Mekong Basin from 1997 to 2010.

ABSTRACT: The Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) is biologically diverse, economically important, and home to about 65 million people. The region has undergone extensive environmental changes since the 1990s due to such factors as agricultural expansion and intensification, deforestation, more river damming, increased urbanization, growing human populations, expansion of industrial forest plantations, plus frequent natural disasters from flooding and drought. The Mekong river is also heavily used for human transportation, fishing, drinking water, and irrigation. This paper discusses use of pre-existing LULC maps from 1997 and 2010 to derive a LMB regional LULC change map for 9 classes per date using GIS overlay techniques. The change map was derived to aid SWAT hydrologic modeling applications in the LMB, giv

SUBMITTER: Spruce J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7192009 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature