Establishing the link between urban land cover change and the proliferation of aquatic hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in Harare Metropolitan, Zimbabwe

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dc.contributor.authorDube, Timothy
dc.contributor.authorSibanda, Mbulisi
dc.contributor.authorBangamwabo, Victor
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-13T10:28:07Z
dc.date.available2021-07-13T10:28:07Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractUrbangrowthisakeyprocessaffectingthefunctioningofnaturalecosystems,andconsequentlythegloballand-surface process. This work aimed at establishing the link between land cover changes around HarareMetropolitancityandtheproliferationofaquatichyacinth(Eichhornia crassipes)inLakeChivero.RemotelysensedLandsatseriesacquiredintheyear1973,1981,1994,1998,2008,2009and2014wasused.Imageclassificationwasimplementedtomaptheassociatedchangesovertimeusingdiscriminantanalysisalgorithm.Derivedthematiclandcovermapsshowedthatagriculturallandincreasedfrom2%in1973toa5%in1981reachingupto30%in2014,whereasthecity'slandareasignificantly(p<0.05)increasedbetween1973and1994.However,waterhyacinthconstantlyincreasedovertime.ThespatialandtemporalresolutionofLandsatimagesdetectedlandcoverchangesandtheproliferationofaquatichyacinth(Eichhorniacrassipes)intheLakeChiveroovertime.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDube,T .et al. (2018). Establishing the link between urban land cover change and the proliferation of aquatic hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in Harare Metropolitan, Zimbabwe. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 108(April 2017), 19–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2018.09.010en_US
dc.identifier.issn1474-7065
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2018.09.010
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/6396
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.subjectBaseline dataen_US
dc.subjectFreshwater ecosystemsen_US
dc.subjectHarare metropolitan cityen_US
dc.subjectUrban expansionen_US
dc.subjectRemote sensingen_US
dc.subjectWater qualityen_US
dc.titleEstablishing the link between urban land cover change and the proliferation of aquatic hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in Harare Metropolitan, Zimbabween_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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