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Land Use/Cover, Agriculture and Biodiversity Research

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Managing Geo-Based Challenges

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I started work in this field through a student project which required mapping agricultural land in the Warwickshire, UK based on old satellite images. This meant the lack of the necessary ground referenced data, then, I defined and promoted the use of ‘representative’ ground reference data with available historical records in the mapping process.

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Baban, S.M.J. (2014). Land Use/Cover, Agriculture and Biodiversity Research. In: Managing Geo-Based Challenges. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07380-4_4

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