Contents
Part I Monitoring and Modeling of Land Use Changes
1
Land Change Modeling: Status and Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3
Ting Liu and Xiaojun Yang
2
Modeling the Effects of Land Use Change and Climate Change
on Stream Flow Using GIS and a Hydrological Model . . . . . . . . . . 17
Maochuan Hu, Bin He, Pingping Luo, Kaoru Takara, and Weili Duan
Part II Monitoring and Analyzing of Urban Dynamics
3
Combining Different Data Sources for City Growth Analysis
and Architectural Heritage Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Karel Pavelka and Eva Matous ˇkova ´
4
Long-Term Change Dynamics Using Landsat Archive
for the Region of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Anqi Fu, Jonathan Li, and Saied Pirasteh
5
Influence of Political Regime Change to Land Use Development
in Urban Areas in the Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Lena Halounova ´ and Vladimı ´r Holubec
Part III Monitoring and Mapping Environmental Changes
6
Mapping Sea Ice from Satellite SAR Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Linlin Xu and Jonathan Li
7
Landscape Ecological Mapping for Biodiversity Evaluation
Using Airborne Laser Scanning Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Mamoru Koarai
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