Using remote sensing to detect and monitor land-cover and land-use change

Our ability to change ourselves and our surroundings increases with each technological advance. Changes today are more extensive and occur more rapidly than ever before. The significance of these changes increases as the world's population grows, the available land base declines, and the resiliency of our environment becomes increasingly taxed. As a result, many organizations need to monitor change in land cover and land use. While extensive research has been completed on various change detection methods, little work has been done to implement the technologies in a commercial environment