Abstract
Taiwan is a small and densely populated island. Approximately 70% of the total area is slopeland. A majority of people are living in the western plain. Due to pressures of socioeconomic development, slopeland has been recently exploited, causing environmental degradation and landslide. Thus, there is an urgent need to carry out an ecological assessment of the utilization of slopeland in the island to provide decision makers with useful information so that they can successfully devise measures to mitigate environmental impacts. The main objective of this study was to collect a regular monitoring of illegal land-use/cover changes for slopeland areas using remotely-sensed data from 2010 to 2014. This paper aims at overlapping data such as accessible roads, digital elevation model (DEM) and slope data on the illegally developed areas, so that the relationship of geographical distribution can therefore be explained.
| Original language | English |
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| State | Published - 2015 |
| Event | 36th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing: Fostering Resilient Growth in Asia, ACRS 2015 - Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines Duration: 24 Oct 2015 → 28 Oct 2015 |
Conference
| Conference | 36th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing: Fostering Resilient Growth in Asia, ACRS 2015 |
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| Country/Territory | Philippines |
| City | Quezon City, Metro Manila |
| Period | 24/10/15 → 28/10/15 |
Keywords
- DEM
- Geographic information system (GIS)
- Slopeland
