Next Article in Journal
Urinary Acrylonitrile Metabolite Concentrations Before and after Smoked, Vaporized, and Oral Cannabis in Frequent and Occasional Cannabis Users
Previous Article in Journal
Therapeutic Relationship in eHealth—A Pilot Study of Similarities and Differences between the Online Program Priovi and Therapists Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
Article

Quantitative Analysis of Different Environmental Factor Impacts on Land Cover in Nisos Elafonisos, Crete, Greece

by 1,2,* and 3
1
Department of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Meteorology, Environment and Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
2
Department of Applied Geosciences, Faculty of Science, German University of Technology in Oman, Muscat 1816, Oman
3
Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(18), 6437; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186437
Received: 5 August 2020 / Revised: 26 August 2020 / Accepted: 27 August 2020 / Published: 4 September 2020
Land Cover monitoring is an essential task for a better understanding of the ecosystem’s dynamicity and complexity. The availability of Remote Sensing data improved the Land Use Land Cover mapping as it is routine work in ecosystem management. The complexity of the Mediterranean ecosystems involves a complexity of the surrounding environmental factors. An attempt to quantitatively investigate the interdependencies between land covers and affected environmental factors was conducted in Nisos Elafonisos to represent diverse and fragile coastal Mediterranean ecosystems. Sentinel-2 (MSI) sensor and ASTER Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data were used to classify the LULC as well as to draw different vegetation conditions over the designated study area. DEM derivatives were conducted and incorporated. The developed methodology is intended to assess the land use land cover for different practices under the present environmental condition of Nisos Elafonisos. Supervised classification resulted in six different land cover clusters and was tested against three different environmental clusters. The findings of the current research pointed out that the environmental variables are independent and there is a vertical distribution of the vegetation according to altitude. View Full-Text
Keywords: cross-tabulation; environmental clusters; Mediterranean ecosystems; S2REP; LULC cross-tabulation; environmental clusters; Mediterranean ecosystems; S2REP; LULC
Show Figures

Figure 1

MDPI and ACS Style

Elhag, M.; Boteva, S. Quantitative Analysis of Different Environmental Factor Impacts on Land Cover in Nisos Elafonisos, Crete, Greece. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 6437. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186437

AMA Style

Elhag M, Boteva S. Quantitative Analysis of Different Environmental Factor Impacts on Land Cover in Nisos Elafonisos, Crete, Greece. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(18):6437. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186437

Chicago/Turabian Style

Elhag, Mohamed, and Silvena Boteva. 2020. "Quantitative Analysis of Different Environmental Factor Impacts on Land Cover in Nisos Elafonisos, Crete, Greece" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 18: 6437. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186437

Find Other Styles
Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here.

Article Access Map by Country/Region

1
Back to TopTop