| dc.contributor.author | Dube, Timothy | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sibanda, Mbulisi | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bangamwabo, Victor | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-13T10:28:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-13T10:28:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Dube,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.2018.09.010 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1474-7065 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2018.09.010 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/6396 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Urbangrowthisakeyprocessaffectingthefunctioningofnaturalecosystems,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.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
| dc.subject | Baseline data | en_US |
| dc.subject | Freshwater ecosystems | en_US |
| dc.subject | Harare metropolitan city | en_US |
| dc.subject | Urban expansion | en_US |
| dc.subject | Remote sensing | en_US |
| dc.subject | Water quality | en_US |
| dc.title | Establishing the link between urban land cover change and the proliferation of aquatic hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in Harare Metropolitan, Zimbabwe | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
