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Agricultural productivity and environmental changes can be greatly affected by agricultural and other land use. Mapping of vegetation and land cover is a fundamental way of managing the natural resources on the earth surface. To determine or study the crop productivities of any geographical location, agricultural land use is one of the crucial clues for reliable information. We aimed to investigate the effects of urbanization on agricultural lands in Sao Paulo city. A 30-year multi-temporal satellite imagery datas...

Soil erosion is one of the crucial forms of land degradation; a menace caused by soil degradation and prevailing lithological feature in southern Nigeria. Several hectares of land area and properties worth about 2.5 million USD are lost annually due to soil erosion. Besides arable lands, the vegetation which serves as habitat to several species is rapidly disappearing leading to the extinction of the native plant species. The objective of the study was to evaluate the impacts of soil-gully erosion from 1986-2016 b...

Climate change and population growth are the key drivers of land use-land cover (LULC) change in sub-saharan Africa. Ecosystem services from the species biodiversity have been the sources of food and energy in Nigeria through agriculture and provision of food, firewood, and shelter. The change in LULC has led to the degradation of the natural resources especially the plants which their severe extinction poses major threats to the increasing rural population whose livelihoods depend on them. The study aimed at usin...