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Land use/land cover (LULC) information is one of the most important spatial input for environmental modelling and a crucial indicator to identify and quantify natural and socioeconomic impacts triggered by LULC changes. Such impacts are related to glacier, snow cover, and permafrost melting, the forming of GLOFs, erosion by land sides, discharge and sediment transport dynamics of alpine rivers, and the socioeconomic regional urban and rural development to name some of them.
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Thapa, R., Lang, S., Schöepfer, E., Kienberger, S., Füreder, P., Zeil, P. (2015). Land Use/Land Cover Classification of the Natural Environment. In: Sharma, N., Flügel, WA. (eds) Applied Geoinformatics for Sustainable Integrated Land and Water Resources Management (ILWRM) in the Brahmaputra River basin. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1967-5_5
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