Detection and evaluation of long-term Land Use/Cover Changes using Landsat satellite data. A case in the Ahafo Ano Southwest District of Ghana
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F25%3A10510731" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/25:10510731 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=uPcipOJsCE" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=uPcipOJsCE</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/geosc-2025-0012" target="_blank" >10.2478/geosc-2025-0012</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Detection and evaluation of long-term Land Use/Cover Changes using Landsat satellite data. A case in the Ahafo Ano Southwest District of Ghana
Original language description
This study examines Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes over a 30-year period (1994-2024) in the Ahafo Ano Southwest District of Ghana using Landsat imagery from 1994, 2004, 2014, and 2024. Supervised classification based on the Maximum Likelihood algorithm was applied to classify the images into five LULC categories: dense vegetation, sparse vegetation, wetland, bare land, and built-up area. The classification results achieved overall accuracies above 95% with Kappa coefficients of approximately 0.92. The results indicate a substantial expansion of built-up areas, sparse vegetation, and bare land, occurring at the expense of dense vegetation and wetlands. These changes are primarily associated with increasing human activities, particularly agricultural expansion and urbanization, which corresponds with population growth in the study area. The findings provide important insights for land-use planning and the formulation of sustainable development policies aimed at enhancing forest cover, conserving ecosystems, and mitigating carbon stock loss.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10508 - Physical geography
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
GeoScape
ISSN
1802-1115
e-ISSN
1802-1115
Volume of the periodical
19
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
160-177
UT code for WoS article
001650671900006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105026687289