Development of an agricultural land evaluation and site assessment (LESA) decision support tool using remote sensing and geographic information system.
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, September, 2005 by Dung, E.J.; Sugumaran, R.
The general trend in North America, which is agriculturally based, have indicated that prime agricultural lands are being constantly lost to natural hazards such as soil erosion, land degradation, and especially through human activities such as urban development. In order to control and manage these prime agricultural lands, there is a need for improved agricultural land evaluation methods. Lately, a combination of geospatial technologies (GST) such as remote sensing, geographical information systems (GIS), and the global positioning system (GPS), and land evaluation methods such as Land Evaluation and Site Assessment (LESA) have shown to be promising tools for land evaluation. Even though numerous studies have demonstrated the importance of integrating land evaluation models with...
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