Exurban change detection in fire-prone areas with nighttime satellite imagery

被引：24
作者：
Cova, TJ [1 ]
Sutton, PC
Theobald, DM
机构：
[1] Univ Utah, Dept Geog, Ctr Nat & Technol Hazards, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
[2] Univ Denver, Dept Geog, Denver, CO 80208 USA
[3] Colorado State Univ, Dept Nat Resource Recreat & Tourism, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
[4] Colorado State Univ, Nat Resource Ecol Lab, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
来源：
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING AND REMOTE SENSING | 2004年 / 70卷 / 11期
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D O I：
10.14358/PERS.70.11.1249
中图分类号：
P9 [自然地理学];
学科分类号：
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要：
Fire-prone landscapes ore increasingly being settled. Monitoring this development is an emerging need, and a low-cost method would benefit emergency managers. Existing change-detection methods can be expensive and time consuming when applied to low-density urban change in large, vegetated areas. Nighttime satellite imagery is explored as means for addressing this problem, and a case study is presented for Colorado. The results indicate that from 1992-2000, Grand County had the greatest absolute increase in ambient sprawl into fire-prone areas (215 km(2)), but Teller County had the greatest percentage increase (7.3 percent). In 2000, La Plata County had the most ambient development in fire-prone areas (909 km(2)), but Jefferson County had the greatest percentage (42 percent). The paper concludes, with a discussion of the prospects and problems of the approach.
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页码：1249 / 1257
页数：9
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