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Urbanization and land-use change in Puerto Maldonado, Peru: Categorizing the landscape using high-resolution satellite imagery for potential use in public health research.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Urbanization and land-use change in Puerto Maldonado, Peru: Categorizing the landscape using high-resolution satellite imagery for potential use in public health research./
Author:	Gast, Laura Brianna.
Description:	104 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-08A(E).
Subject:	Land use planning. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3618445
ISBN:	9781303867811

Urbanization and land-use change in Puerto Maldonado, Peru: Categorizing the landscape using high-resolution satellite imagery for potential use in public health research.
Gast, Laura Brianna.

Urbanization and land-use change in Puerto Maldonado, Peru: Categorizing the landscape using high-resolution satellite imagery for potential use in public health research. - 104 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Dr.P.H.)--The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2014.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Environmental change, especially rapid urbanization, has measurable effects on human health. Over 70 percent of the global population is expected to live in urban areas by 2025, and at least 1 in 3 of these individuals will live in extreme poverty. Living in a slum or shantytown exposes individuals to health and safety risks including inadequate sanitation, lack of access to clean water, air pollution, violence, over-crowding and risk of infectious disease.

ISBN: 9781303867811Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122760
Land use planning.

Urbanization and land-use change in Puerto Maldonado, Peru: Categorizing the landscape using high-resolution satellite imagery for potential use in public health research.
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520 $a Remote sensing technologies are an effective tool for detection and prediction of areas with significant land use change, which enables identification of populations with the highest risk of various adverse health outcomes. This project aims to contribute toward the development of a remote sensing-based, integrated infectious disease prediction and surveillance program for Puerto Maldonado, Peru, a city with expected rapid urbanization resulting from the newly constructed Peru-Brazil Interoceanic highway.
520 $a The first stage of this study evaluated landscape change in Puerto Maldonado between 2002 and 2011. Results indicate that significant changes occurred during this time, including considerable loss of vegetation and the expansion of built structures and roadways. These changes occurred simultaneously with the construction of a major trade route through the city.
520 $a The second stage of this study investigated the accuracy of pixel-based techniques versus object-based techniques to classify land use and land cover attributes, such as pasture-land and human dwellings, of a high-resolution, multispectral WorldView2 image. The results of this study show that a pixel-based approach has a higher degree of accuracy (93.6%) than an object-based approach (89.4%) on high-resolution 8-band imagery. This suggests that with higher-resolution imagery and increased spectral data, incorporating segment information in an object-based analysis may not be necessary and may actually decrease classification accuracy.
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