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Pre and Post Earthquake Land Use and Land Cover Identification in Concepción

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This paper presents the pre and post earthquake identification of representative land cover and land use scenarios in the metropolitan area of Concepción in Chile. Significant land use and land cover changes will be exposed and evaluated conducting a temporal analysis of satellite image classifications.

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This research was sponsored by the project “FONDECYT N° 11090163” Valoración del Territorio Metropolitano. Aproximaciones desde su Sostenibilidad y Evaluación Ambiental Estratégica (Evaluation of the Metropolitan Territory using sustainable approaches and strategic environmental assessment).

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Rojas, C., Mauricio, V., Sergio, O., Peters, S., Constanza, V. (2013). Pre and Post Earthquake Land Use and Land Cover Identification in Concepción. In: Krisp, J., Meng, L., Pail, R., Stilla, U. (eds) Earth Observation of Global Changes (EOGC). Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32714-8_15

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