Color slices analysis of land use changes due to urbanization in a city environment of Miami Area, South Florida, USA

Divya, Y.; Gopinathan, P.; Jayachandran, Krish; Al-Quraishi, Ayad M. Fadhil

doi:10.1007/s40808-020-00883-x

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“…Therefore, the positive open land association in Charleston might indicate a byproduct of container Aedes populations migrating away from urban heat islands. However, the discrepancy observed with the lack of association between this landscape and egg abundance in Miami, suggests that this effect may not be a common occurrence when drastic landscape differences are developing in the same landscape classification ( Divya et al 2021 ; Wells and Baldwin 2012 ).…”

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Landscape and meteorological variables associated withAedes aegyptiandAedes albopictusmosquito infestation in two southeastern USA coastal cities

Costa-da-Silva,

Dye-Braumuller,

Wagner-Coello

et al. 2024

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Aedestransmitted arboviral human cases are increasing worldwide and spreading to new areas of the United States of America (USA). These diseases continue to re-emerge likely due to changes in vector ecology, urbanization, human migration, and larger range of climatic suitability. Recent shifts in landscape and weather variables are predicted to impact the habitat patterns of urban mosquitoes such asAedes aegyptiandAedes albopictus. Miami (FL) is in the tropical zone and an established hotspot for arboviruses, while Charleston (SC) is in the humid subtropical zone and newly vulnerable. Although these coastal cities have distinct climates, both have hot summers. To understand mosquito infestation in both cities and potentiate our surveillance effort, we performed egg collections in the warmest season. We applied remote sensing with land-use cover and weather variation to identify mosquito infestation patterns. Our study found predominant occurrence ofAe. aegyptiand, to a lesser extent,Ae. albopictusin both cities. We detected statistically significant positive and negative associations between entomological indicators and most weather variables in combined data from both cities. For all entomological indices, weekly wind speed and relative humidity were significantly positively associated, while precipitation and maximum temperature were significantly negatively associated.Aedesegg abundance was significantly positively associated with open land in Charleston but was negatively associated with vegetation cover in combined data. There is a clear need for further observational studies to determine the impact of climate change onAe. aegyptiandAe. albopictusinfestation in the Southeastern region of the USA.

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confidence: 78%

Landscape and meteorological variables associated withAedes aegyptiandAedes albopictusmosquito infestation in two southeastern USA coastal cities

Costa-da-Silva,

Dye-Braumuller,

Wagner-Coello

et al. 2024

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“…Along with multispectral data, GIS tools enhanced this study by mapping soil properties. GIS manipulated the soil properties as attributes and helped visualize the study site's soil classification [33][34][35][36]. The current study's main objectives are: 1) To examine the potential of geoinformatics techniques to depict, map, and assess the iron-rich soils in the study region using the Landsat -7 ETM+ image, 2) To process the ETM+ image and retrieve band details and other spectral indices for soil analysis, 3) To generate a statistical regression model between the spectral indices retrieved from satellite image and soil lab data and test the predicted models' significance.…”

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Potential of Multispectral Satellite Data for Superficial Iron Oxide Detection in Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan Region

Al-Quraishi,

Mustafa,

Gopinathan

et al. 2022

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This study primarily investigates the total (Fe) iron presence in Sulaimaniyah Governorate, the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR), which has an abundance of iron mines. Spatial quantification and frequent monitoring of mineral existence in the soil are essential in the mining regions. To achieve this goal, a remote sensing technique was utilized to predict soil minerals, particularly iron, in the study area using a multispectral satellite image, Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+). A robust methodology was perceived and developed from image processing to estimate and map iron oxide-rich soils, and the soil’s spectral indices were obtained after algorithms were applied in processing the bands of the Landsat image. Soil samples were collected and analyzed in the laboratory to determine the chemical, physical, and mineralogical characteristics of soils. Correlation coefficients were carried out between soil properties and spectral band values retrieved from image analysis to examine the band potentials of Landsat. The statistical results showed that there was a significant relationship between the 3rd band of the ETM+ image and each of the total iron (R2 = 0.643), the free iron oxide (R2 = 0.659), and sand particles (R2 = 0.561). The predicted soil mineral maps were generated for the study area to visualize the study site's soil characterization and total iron spread. This study's results could help primarily identify the spatial distribution of some soil properties in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq.

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“…The issue of assessing the environmental impacts of urban development in European towns is less elaborated [26,27]. Many more American authors evaluate the environmental problems associated with the development of urbanisation [28][29][30][31].…”

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The Impacts of Urbanisation on Landscape and Environment: The Case of Slovakia

2021

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The development of urbanisation is linked to qualitative and quantitative changes in the landscape and its components aimed at strengthening economic, administrative and cultural-social functions, which are associated with ever-increasing pressures on ecosystems and their individual components. These pressures are subject to various factors—socio-economic, political, environ-mental, etc. In this paper, we present an evaluation of the environmental impacts of the development of urbanisation in Slovakia. Independent Slovakia belongs to the young European states. The communist period lasted from 1948 to 1989. The character of landscape, the quality of the environment and also the degree of anthropisation of territory were dependent on a centrally managed economy. Urbanisation changes began to manifest themselves rapidly after 2000, when the economy was transformed and Slovakia was preparing to join the European Union (Slovakia joined the European Union in 2004). The transformation from central planning into a market economy was the basis of the changes, which was conditioned following strong pressure of investors on the landscape, the construction of technological parks, shopping and logistics centres and transport infrastructure and the construction of residential complexes. According to the European Environment Agency’s study on urban sprawl between the mid-1950s and the end of the 1990s, industry, commercial and transport services have grown at a significant rate and the residential areas at a moderate rate in Slovakia. On the other hand, Slovakia has areas where urbanisation has the opposite trend. Rural settlements are abandoned as well as large areas of agricultural land. The character of land use has fundamentally changed over the past 20 years. These changes not only have a spatial dimension but are associated with the emergence of various environmental problems. The paper deals with the impacts of anthropisation and industrialisation of Slovakia after 2000. The anthropisation process in Slovakia was determined through data processed in GIS and also through the statistical data representing land use. Based on the ecological significance of land use elements, the degree of anthropisation in Slovakiawas calculated.

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Color slices analysis of land use changes due to urbanization in a city environment of Miami Area, South Florida, USA

Cited by 15 publications

References 25 publications

Landscape and meteorological variables associated withAedes aegyptiandAedes albopictusmosquito infestation in two southeastern USA coastal cities

Landscape and meteorological variables associated withAedes aegyptiandAedes albopictusmosquito infestation in two southeastern USA coastal cities

Potential of Multispectral Satellite Data for Superficial Iron Oxide Detection in Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan Region

The Impacts of Urbanisation on Landscape and Environment: The Case of Slovakia

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