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GIS and Remote Sensing to Study Urban-Rural Transformation During a Fifty-Year Period

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Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011 (ICCSA 2011)

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A relevant issue in Remote Sensing (RS) and GIS is related to the analysis and the characterization of Land Use Land Cover (LULC) changes, very useful for a wide range of environmental applications and to efficiently undertake landscape planning and management policies. The methodology described has been applied to a case-study conducted in the area of the Province of Avellino (Southern Italy). Firstly, aerial photos and Landsat imagery have been classified to produce LULC maps for a fifty-year period (1954÷2004). Then, through a GIS approach, change detection and spatiotemporal analysis has been integrated to characterize LULC dynamics, focusing on the urban-rural gradient. This study has shown that LULC patterns and their changes are linked to both natural and social processes whose driving role has been clearly demonstrated: after the disastrous Irpinia earthquake (1980), local specific zoning laws and urban plans have significantly addressed landscape changes.

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  1. Department of Agroforestry and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTAfA), Mediterranea’ University of Reggio Calabria, Loc. Feo di Vito, 89122, Reggio Calabria, Italy

    Carmelo Riccardo Fichera, Giuseppe Modica & Maurizio Pollino

  2. “Earth Observations and Analyses” Lab (UTMEA-TER) Casaccia Research Centre, ENEA - National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123, Rome, Italy

    Maurizio Pollino

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  1. L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T., Basilicata University Potenza, 10, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

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  3. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, University of Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros, s/n, C.P. 39005, Santander, Spain

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  4. School of Business Systems, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, VIC, Australia

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  5. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, Higashi-ku, 813-8503, Fukuoka, Japan

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Fichera, C.R., Modica, G., Pollino, M. (2011). GIS and Remote Sensing to Study Urban-Rural Transformation During a Fifty-Year Period. In: Murgante, B., Gervasi, O., Iglesias, A., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011. ICCSA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6782. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21928-3_17

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