Detection of Land Use/Land Cover Changes and Urban Sprawl in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia: An Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Data

Rahman, Muhammad Tauhidur

doi:10.3390/ijgi5020015

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“…Therefore, the cities with higher increasing rates of SUHII should pay more attention to protect the terrestrial ecosystems. In this study, the continuous and rapid urbanization of the 10 cities was similar with other cities according to previous studies [56][57][58][59]. Future studies will focus on UEs on environment at regional or global scales.…”

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Urbanization Effects on Vegetation and Surface Urban Heat Islands in China’s Yangtze River Basin

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Abstract:In the context of rapid urbanization, systematic research about temporal trends of urbanization effects (UEs) on urban environment is needed. In this study, MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) land surface temperature (LST) data and enhanced vegetation index (EVI) data were used to analyze the temporal trends of UEs on vegetation and surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) at 10 big cities in Yangtze River Basin (YRB), China during 2001-2016. The urban and rural areas in each city were derived from MODIS land cover data and nighttime light data. It was found that the UEs on vegetation and SUHIs were increasingly significant in YRB, China. The ∆EVI (the UEs on vegetation, urban EVI minus rural EVI) decreased significantly (p < 0.05) in 9, 7 and 5 out of 10 cities for annual, summer and winter, respectively. The annual daytime and nighttime SUHI intensity (SUHII; urban LST minus rural LST) increased significantly (p < 0.05) in 10 and 4 out of 10 cities, respectively. The increasing rate of daytime SUHII and the decreasing rate of ∆EVI in old urban areas were much less than the whole urban area (0.034 • C/year vs. 0.077 • C/year for annual daytime SUHII; 0.00209/year vs. 0.00329/year for ∆EVI). The correlation analyses indicated that the annual and summer daytime SUHII were significantly negatively correlated with ∆EVI in most cities. The decreasing ∆EVI may also contribute to the increasing nighttime SUHII. In addition, the significant negative correlations (r < −0.5, p < 0.1) between inter-annual linear slope of ∆EVI and SUHII were observed, which suggested that the cities with higher decreasing rates of ∆EVI may show higher increasing rates of SUHII.

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Urbanization Effects on Vegetation and Surface Urban Heat Islands in China’s Yangtze River Basin

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“…Although the causes of these changes were not assessed in this work, recent studies on LULCC [12,25,26] that include the evaluation of NPAs [27,28] and their surrounding areas [31] have shown that deforestation due to overexploitation, uncontrolled logging, agricultural activities, consumer demand, fires, pests, and urban growth, as well as natural phenomena arising from climate change, are some of the main factors that influence the loss of vegetation in Mexico [2]. In other areas, the increase in land cover changes has been caused by the rapid population growth, the multiplication of human settlements, and regional economic development [8- 10,64]. Likewise, the highest percentages of change and transition occurred between 1973, 1986 and 2000, coincide with a period of high deforestation in Mexico [34,40], as proposed in one of the hypotheses raised in this work.…”

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Assessment of Land Use-Cover Changes and Successional Stages of Vegetation in the Natural Protected Area Altas Cumbres, Northeastern Mexico, Using Landsat Satellite Imagery

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Loss of vegetation cover is a major factor that endangers biodiversity. Therefore, the use of geographic information systems and the analysis of satellite images are important for monitoring these changes in Natural Protected Areas (NPAs). In northeastern Mexico, the Natural Protected Area Altas Cumbres (NPAAC) represents a relevant floristic and faunistic patch on which the impact of loss of vegetation cover has not been assessed. This work aimed to analyze changes of land use and coverage (LULCC) over the last 42 years on the interior and around the exterior of the area, and also to propose the time of succession for the most important types of vegetation. For the analysis, LANDSAT satellite images from 1973, 1986, 2000, 2005 and 2015 were used, they were classified in seven categories through a segmentation and maximum likelihood analysis. A cross-tabulation analysis was performed to determine the succession gradient. Towards the interior of the area, a significant reduction of tropical vegetation and, to a lesser extent, temperate forests was found, as well as an increase in scrub cover from 1973 to 2015. In addition, urban and vegetation-free areas, as well as modified vegetation, increased to the exterior. Towards the interior of the NPA, the processes of perturbation and recovery were mostly not linear, while in the exterior adjacent area, the presence of secondary vegetation with distinct definite time of succession was evident. The analysis carried out is the first contribution that evaluates LULCC in this important NPA of northeastern Mexico. Results suggest the need to evaluate the effects of these modifications on species.

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“…Rapid urbanization and urban sprawl have a significant impact on conditions of urban land use changes due to the increasing demands for the construction of new residential, commercial, utility, and transport infrastructures [3,4]. Urbanization is a process related to population increase in urban regions that is associated with settlement increases and automatically reduces vegetation areas due to limited land [5].…”

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Changes in Gross Primary Production (GPP) over the Past Two Decades Due to Land Use Conversion in a Tourism City

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As-syakur

Gunadi

et al. 2018

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Understanding the changes in gross primary production (GPP), which is the total carbon fixation by terrestrial ecosystems through vegetation photosynthesis, due to land use conversion in a tourism city is important for carbon cycle studies. Satellite data from Landsat 5, Landsat 7 and Landsat 8 and meteorological data are used to calculate annual GPP for 1995, 2003 and 2014, respectively, using the vegetation production model (VPM) in the tourism city Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Five land use types generated from topographic maps in three different years over the past two decades are used to quantify the impacts of land use changes on GPP estimation values. Analysis was performed for two periods to determine changes in land use and GPP value as well as their speed. The results demonstrated that urban land development, namely, the increase of settlement areas due to tourism activity, had overall negative effects on terrestrial GPP. The total GPP of the whole area decreased by 7793.96 tC year −1 (12.65%) during the study period. The decline is due to the conversion of agriculture and grassland area into settlements, which caused the city to lose half of its ability to uptake carbon through vegetation. However, although forest area is declining, forest maintenance and restoration by making them protection areas has been helpful in preventing a drastic decline in GPP value over the past two decades. This study provides information that is useful for carbon resource management, tourism, policy making and scholars concerned about carbon reduction in a tourism city.

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Detection of Land Use/Land Cover Changes and Urban Sprawl in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia: An Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Data

Cited by 124 publications

References 60 publications

Urbanization Effects on Vegetation and Surface Urban Heat Islands in China’s Yangtze River Basin

Urbanization Effects on Vegetation and Surface Urban Heat Islands in China’s Yangtze River Basin

Assessment of Land Use-Cover Changes and Successional Stages of Vegetation in the Natural Protected Area Altas Cumbres, Northeastern Mexico, Using Landsat Satellite Imagery

Changes in Gross Primary Production (GPP) over the Past Two Decades Due to Land Use Conversion in a Tourism City

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