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Abandoned Farmland Location in Areas A ected by Rapid Urbanization Using Textural Characterization of High Resolution Aerial Imagery

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2020-03-25

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Several studies have demonstrated that farmland abandonment occurs not only in rural areas, but is also closely interlinked with urbanization processes. Therefore, the location of abandoned land and the registration of the spatial information referring to it play important roles in urban land management. However, mapping abandoned land or land in the process of abandonment is not an easy task because the limits between the di erent land uses are not clear and precise. It is therefore necessary to develop methods that allow estimating and mapping this type of land as accurately as possible. As an alternative to other geomatics methods such as satellite remote sensing, our approach proposes a framework for automatically locating abandoned farmland in urban landscapes using the textural characterization and segmentation of aerial imagery. Using the city of Pozna´n (Poland) as a case study, results demonstrated the feasibility of applying our approach, reducing processing time and workforce resources. Specifically and by comparing the results obtained with the data provided by CORINE Land Cover, 2275 ha (40.3%) of arable land within the city limits were abandoned, and the area of abandoned arable land was almost 9.2% of the city’s area. Finally, the reliability of the proposed methodology was assessed from two di erent focuses: (i) the accuracy of the segmentation results (from a positional point of view) and (ii) the e ciency of locating abandoned land (as a specific type of land use) in urban areas particularly a ected by rapid urbanization.

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farmland abandonment mapping, textural segmentation, aerial imagery, land use

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Ruiz-Lendínez, J. J. (2020). Abandoned Farmland Location in Areas Affected by Rapid Urbanization Using Textural Characterization of High Resolution Aerial Imagery. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9(4), 191. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9040191

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