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the Reunion Island. The same process can be repli-
cated to compute changes for the others land cover
types. The proposed approach presents a useful tool
for disaster prevention and monitoring, planting sta-
tus of agricultural products, and tree distribution of
forests. The evaluation depicts good results of the
proposed approach in predicting urban changes.
Future prospects are primarily research and ex-
traction of other relevant descriptors and indicators
that affect objects features of satellite images and im-
prove the complexity of our algorithm. Another chal-
lenge is to apply the proposed approach on others
sites.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
There are so many people who have provided me with
their support, and it is not easy to find the right words
to express my gratitude.
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