Remote Sensing and GIS

GIS allows spatially referenced data from disparate sources to be integrated in a common modeling and analytical system. Landcover derived from emotely sensed data is at the core of CIPEC research. Researchers at CIPEC use GIS to integrate landcover data with various social and biophysical data to determine the factors behind landcover change.

An example of this is work being done in Altamira, Brazil. Researchers on this project have used a property grid overlay to link landcover change in specific areas to socio-economic and demographic data for individual households. GIS is used to overlay the property grid to partition the landscape into areas linked to specific households and social survey data linked to those households.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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