Browsing School of Built Environment (SBE) Collection by Subject "Land cover"
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Assessing the effect of land use and land cover change on the occurrence of floods: a case study of Mbale district.
(Makerere University, 2023-06-17)The change in land use and land cover in a particular area will always change the features of drainage systems such that they will impact surface overflow and affect the infiltration capacity of a land surface, which is ... -
Assessing the Impact of Land Use Land Cover Change on Habitat Quality; Case Study of The River Rwizi Catchment
(Makerere University, 2023-11-26)The nature of the habitat depends a lot on the changes in the land use landcover of that area. It is therefore important to understand the land use and land cover changes under different scenarios and how they affect habitat ... -
Assessing the landscape composition of Mabira Forest
(Makerere University, 2018-05)The composition of a landscape is defined by the spatial elements that are distinguished in the map and believed to be relevant to the landscape function under consideration. Composition represents the non-spatial aspect ... -
Remote sensing and GIS-based modelling of land cover change for runoff simulation.
(Makerere University, 2020-11-30)The Murchison Bay is a catchment located in the northern shoreline of Lake Victoria basin that supports several human related activities in Uganda. Because of this, the catchment has undergone remarkable land cover ... -
Spatio-temporal assessment of the relationship between land use land cover changes and human-wildlife conflicts. Case study: Queen Elizabeth National Park
(Makerere University, 2022-01-06)Land use land cover change has led to encroachment on the gazetted protected area of Queen Elizabeth National Park hence increasing an interaction between wild animals and people in the surrounding communities. These ...