IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/tjomxx/v11y2015i2p217-224.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Land cover of Mauritius Island

Author

Listed:
  • Rody Nigel
  • Soonil D. D. V. Rughooputh
  • Ravi Boojhawon

Abstract

In this digital era, high-resolution imagery offers a rapid and inexpensive means of monitoring land use changes. Digitally monitoring dynamic landscape change is a versatile way of facilitating rapid strategic decision making in a sustainable manner in a world of increasing complexity. Whilst a cadastral land information system is useful as a database, its use is limited for research purposes involving the manipulation of images - such as in studying flood-prone areas or land erosion susceptibility. In this paper, we report a land cover map for Mauritius Island (1859 km-super-2), in the Indian Ocean, at a scale of 1:100,000 (A1-size paper). Inputs used to create the map are a SPOT satellite image, published map series at 1:25,000 scale, and selected ground truth surveys for validation. In total, 11 feature types, which are representative of the island's surface cover, have been mapped.

Suggested Citation

  • Rody Nigel & Soonil D. D. V. Rughooputh & Ravi Boojhawon, 2015. "Land cover of Mauritius Island," Journal of Maps, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(2), pages 217-224, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjomxx:v:11:y:2015:i:2:p:217-224
    DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2014.926297
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/17445647.2014.926297
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/17445647.2014.926297?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Christophe Révillion & Artadji Attoumane & Vincent Herbreteau, 2019. "Homisland-IO: Homogeneous Land Use/Land Cover over the Small Islands of the Indian Ocean," Data, MDPI, vol. 4(2), pages 1-10, June.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:tjomxx:v:11:y:2015:i:2:p:217-224. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/tjom20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.