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Land Use Land Cover Changes Detection of Erbil City Using GIS and Remote Sensing

A journal article published by Erbil Polytechnic University reports analysis of land use and land cover change in Erbil City using GIS and remote sensing methods. The source is identified as a journal article but provides no operational details or results in the supplied excerpt.

Highest Explore Position #494 ~ On October 28th 2008. Smooth-coated Otter - Rare Species Conservation Centre, Kent, England - Sunday October 12th 2008. Click here to see the Larger image From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ~ The Smooth-coated Otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) is a species of otter, the only extant representative of the genus Lutrogale. The species is found from India east to Southeast Asia, and there is a disjunct population in Iraq. As its name indicates, the fur of this specie
Illustrative image: Highest Explore Position #494 ~ On October 28th 2008. Smooth-coated Otter - Rare Species Conservation Centre, Kent, England - Sunday October 12th 2008. Click here to see the Larger image From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ~ The Smooth-coated Otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) is a species of otter, the only extant representative of the genus Lutrogale. The species is found from India east to Southeast Asia, and there is a disjunct population in Iraq. As its name indicates, the fur of this specie — Keven Law from Los Angeles, USA/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

Categories: environment-and-climate, science-and-space

Generated scores

Scores are based on the cited reporting and use a 1–10 scale. Read the methodology.

Confidence
5/10
Geographic reach
2/10
Global importance
2/10
Impact magnitude
3/10
Positivity
5/10
Urgency
1/10

Why it matters

Documenting land use and land cover change can inform local environmental monitoring and planning.

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