Research on land cover changes in the Rietspruit catchment, Gauteng

LANDSAT SATELLITE IMAGE DATA FOR TRACKING URBAN EXPANSION - APRIL 1998 Click on image for 800kbyte version

Satellite image of Rietspruit with the study area outlined in red (Landsat April 1998 image, band 5=Red 4=Green 3=Blue)

Houses next to N1 1999-11-30 S26.51722 E27.81103

From about 1993 the Institute for Water Quality Studies has been involved in projects to monitor changes in land cover and water quality in the Rietspruit catchment. The following publications summarise the findings of these projects:

Changes in urban residential land in the Rietspruit catchment, southern Transvaal [now southern Gauteng]
Revisiting Rietspruit: Land Cover Change and Water Quality in South Africa. (Screen resolution or print resolution PDF file). Proceedings of the ICRSE 28th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment and the Third AARSE Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa, 27 to 31 March 2000. Technical Session 11.

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LAND COVER CHANGES IN THE RIETSPRUIT CATCHMENT, GAUTENG