Modeling land use change for Ejisu-Juaben district of Ghana

dc.contributor.author	Amoah, A. S.
dc.contributor.author	Osei, E. M. Jnr.
dc.contributor.author	Duker, A.A.
dc.contributor.author	Osei, K.N
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-18T14:02:10Z
dc.date.available	2022-01-18T14:02:10Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.identifier.issn	23105496
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7260
dc.description	4p:, ill.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Prediction of land use/cover change for future date is important for management and monitoring the resources. Ejisu Juaben district of Ghana turned out to be the best choice of study as it is observed that the northern part of the district is undergoing rapid changes and is in close proximity to the Kumasi Metropolitan. Further rapid changes are noticed near Kumasi located in the northern part of the district. Landsat Images of 1986 and 2007 were classified separately and a land use/cover prediction for 2020 was made which gave a transition matrix. The results show that forest and settlement/bare land have 0.5978 and 0.6456 probabilities respectively. The land use /cover map for the year 2020 indicated various changes with the controlling aspects such as weather conditions, human activities etc. remain the same as that of 2007	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Cape Coast	en_US
dc.subject	Land use/land cover	en_US
dc.subject	Markov Chain Analysis	en_US
dc.subject	Cellular Automata and Prediction	en_US
dc.title	Modeling land use change for Ejisu-Juaben district of Ghana	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US