Monitoring Protected Areas Using Remote Sensing Technology

Zahra Ghofrani, Kali Prasad Nepal, Adham Beykikhoshk

2014

Abstract

Due to irrational use of natural resources, human society is facing unprecedented threats. Remote sensing is one of the essential tools to determine changes in various forms of biological diversity over time. There are many methods to determine changes in protected areas, using satellite images. In this paper after introducing different change detection methods and their advantages and disadvantages, a hybrid method is used to analyse changes in forests and protected areas in a national park. Two Landsat images of Golestan National Park in Iran (taken in 1998 and 2010) were used. This hybrid approach combines Change Vector Analysis (CVA) for flagging the occurrence of changes, followed by signature extension to assign labels to changed pixels. The main objective of this paper is to propose a method for discovering and assessing environmental threats to natural treasures.

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in Harvard Style

Ghofrani Z., Nepal K. and Beykikhoshk A. (2014). Monitoring Protected Areas Using Remote Sensing Technology . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing - Volume 1: ICTRS, ISBN 978-989-758-033-8, pages 107-113. DOI: 10.5220/0005422001070113


in Bibtex Style

@conference{ictrs14,
author={Zahra Ghofrani and Kali Prasad Nepal and Adham Beykikhoshk},
title={Monitoring Protected Areas Using Remote Sensing Technology},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing - Volume 1: ICTRS,},
year={2014},
pages={107-113},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005422001070113},
isbn={978-989-758-033-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing - Volume 1: ICTRS,
TI - Monitoring Protected Areas Using Remote Sensing Technology
SN - 978-989-758-033-8
AU - Ghofrani Z.
AU - Nepal K.
AU - Beykikhoshk A.
PY - 2014
SP - 107
EP - 113
DO - 10.5220/0005422001070113