The use of remotely sensed data to detect land cover types and monitor change in a mountainous area of the Alpujarra, southern Spain. An attempt has been made to produce accurate land cover maps of this area using Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery from six dates between 1985 and 1995. Get the MPEG plugin for Netscape from InterVu's WebSite Mapping the Contraviesa-Alpujarra vineyard. No good map of the vineyards exists, so this project is using Landsat TM data from May and August 1992 to meet this need. A DEM of the area has been prepared and initial clasification of landcovers has demonstrated that the vineyards are spectrally separable from the other land covers.
Vineyards appear as red.
Dr Douglas taking a GPS location next to a collapsed terrace riser near Atalbeitar. Terrace collapse in the Portugos area, Alpujarras, Spain. Vertical aerial photographs flown by N.E.R.C. during the April airborne remote sensing campaign in southern Spain offer the opportunity to produce estimates of the extent of this phenomenon. It will be possible to explore the links between terrace collapse, land cover and terrain variables derived from a DEM for the area. The intention of the broadly based project is to support sustainable resource utilisation programmes at community level.