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To assess long-term land use and land cover dynamics from 1994 to 2024 to support sustainable environmental management and land planning.

December 1, 2025GeoScapeOpen Access

Detection and evaluation of long-term Land Use/Cover Changes using Landsat satellite data. A case in the Ahafo Ano Southwest District of Ghana

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RBRichard BaidooCharles University PŠPřemysl ŠtychCharles University

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Satellite image analysis reveals loss of dense forests and wetlands to urban growth in southwest Ghana, highlighting the need for sustainable land-use policies.

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To assess long-term land use and land cover dynamics from 1994 to 2024 to support sustainable environmental management and land planning.
Analyzed multitemporal Landsat satellite imagery across four intervals: 1994, 2004, 2014, and 2024.
Applied supervised classification using the Maximum Likelihood algorithm to categorize land into dense vegetation, sparse vegetation, wetland, bare land, and built-up areas.
Image classifications achieved high precision across all periods, with overall accuracies exceeding 95% and Kappa coefficients of approximately 0.92.
Built-up areas, sparse vegetation, and bare land expanded substantially over the 30-year span, driving direct declines in dense vegetation and wetlands due to urbanization and agricultural pressure.

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Baidoo et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1704da25571367076be0b4 https://doi.org/10.2478/geosc-2025-0012

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Satellite image analysis reveals loss of dense forests and wetlands to urban growth in southwest Ghana, highlighting the need for sustainable land-use policies.

Detection and evaluation of long-term Land Use/Cover Changes using Landsat satellite data. A case in the Ahafo Ano Southwest District of Ghana

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Detection and evaluation of long-term Land Use/Cover Changes using Landsat satellite data. A case in the Ahafo Ano Southwest District of Ghana

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