Publications by authors named "Fahad Shahzad"
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- Urban development and agricultural expansion are significantly impacting land use and land cover dynamics in ecologically sensitive regions like Murree and Kotli Sattian in Pakistan, with a focus on changes from 1992 to 2023.
- The study uses remote sensing data, ArcGIS software, and admixtures of the Support Vector Machine (SVM) for image classification to reveal notable reductions in forest areas, including a 72.4 km decline in Coniferous Forests and a 78.1 km drop in Evergreen Forests over the three decades.
- Forest fragmentation analysis shows a marked increase in fragmentation and a decrease in large core forests from 20.3% of the area in 1992 to 7.2
This study assesses the relationships between vegetation dynamics and climatic variations in Pakistan from 2000 to 2023. Employing high-resolution Landsat data for Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) assessments, integrated with climate variables from CHIRPS and ERA5 datasets, our approach leverages Google Earth Engine (GEE) for efficient processing. It combines statistical methodologies, including linear regression, Mann-Kendall trend tests, Sen's slope estimator, partial correlation, and cross wavelet transform analyses.
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