The document discusses how remote sensing technologies have been integrated into studying human-environment interactions. It surveys literature on using remote sensing and geospatial analysis to quantify components of global environmental change like land use and land cover change. The accuracy of these analyses depends on the quality of land use and other contextual data included.
The document discusses how remote sensing technologies have been integrated into studying human-environment interactions. It surveys literature on using remote sensing and geospatial analysis to quantify components of global environmental change like land use and land cover change. The accuracy of these analyses depends on the quality of land use and other contextual data included.
The document discusses how remote sensing technologies have been integrated into studying human-environment interactions. It surveys literature on using remote sensing and geospatial analysis to quantify components of global environmental change like land use and land cover change. The accuracy of these analyses depends on the quality of land use and other contextual data included.
The document discusses how remote sensing technologies have been integrated into studying human-environment interactions. It surveys literature on using remote sensing and geospatial analysis to quantify components of global environmental change like land use and land cover change. The accuracy of these analyses depends on the quality of land use and other contextual data included.
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National Research Council publications "Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human
Dimensions" and "People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science" launched a golden era in the integration of remote sensing technologies into the study of human–environment interactions. HEI research concerns itself with describing, quantifying, modeling, and disentangling the interactions between human social systems and the environment or ecosystems in which they reside. Despite concerted efforts at integrating and better measuring the feedbacks and links between humans and their environments, there is still considerable progress to be made in connecting people to pixels. In this review article, we aim to systematically survey the literature that advances the research on human dimensions of global change. Remote sensing, or remote sensing coupled with geospatial technology such as geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis and modeling have been widely employed in diverse types of global change studies.
Land use and land cover change (LUCC) geography has historically been at the forefront of quantifying various components of global environmental change through the use of remote sensing and geospatial modeling. In LUCC research, the integration of human and social data was a necessity from the outset. There are commonalities between the datasets, techniques and proxies employed by remote sensing practitioners in HEI studies working at the interface of human and environmental systems dynamics. Many studies employ complex assessments of land use and land cover change (LUCC) and its impacts on water, biodiversity, land processes, or climate. The accuracy of LUCC or vegetation dynamics remote sensing analyses as widely-utilized proxies for ecosystem health and productivity largely depends on the quality and detail of Land Use and other contextual information included or needed in a study. Land use information is derived from a variety of sources and methods that range in their level of detail, reliability, and level of community engagement. The methods used to derive LUCC data in a study will be partially dependent on the researchers' scientific background. Social scientists and remote sensing scientists may both be using remote sensing data, but the complexity of the remote sensing analyses will vary between the two studies.
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Effectiveness and Capability of Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) : A Powerful Tool For Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Change and Accuracy Assessment
