Land use and land cover changes along the China-Myanmar Oil and Gas pipelines - Monitoring infrastructure development in remote conflict-prone regions.

ABSTRACT: Energy infrastructures can have negative impacts on the environment. In remote and / or sparsely populated as well as in conflict-prone regions, these can be difficult to assess, in particular when they are of a large scale. Analyzing land use and land cover changes can be an important initial step towards establishing the quantity and quality of impacts. Drawing from very-high-resolution-multi-temporal-satellite-imagery, this paper reports on a study which employed the Random Forest Classifier and Land Change Modeler to derive detailed information of the spatial patterns and temporal variations of land-use and land-cover changes resulting from the China-Myanmar Oil and Gas Pipelines in Ann township in Myanmar's Rakhine State of Myanmar. Deforestation and afforestation conversion processes

SUBMITTER: Aung TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7437919 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature