Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

damen, m. c. j.

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Title:: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

Sub title:: proceedings of the 7th international Symposium, Enschede, 25 - 29 August 1986

Year of publication:: 1986

Place of publication:: Rotterdam; Boston

Publisher of the original:: A. A. Balkema

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Language:: English

Additional Notes:: Volume 1-3 erschienen von 1986-1988

Editor:: Damen, M. C. J.

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Persistent identifier:: 856641294

Title:: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

Sub title:: proceedings of the 7th international Symposium, Enschede, 25 - 29 August 1986

Scope:: IX Seiten, Seiten 551-956

Year of publication:: 1986

Place of publication:: Rotterdam; Boston

Publisher of the original:: A,. A. Balkema

Identifier (digital):: 856641294

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Editor:: Damen, M. C. J.

Editor:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Commission of Photographic and Remote Sensing Data

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

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Title:: 7 Human settlements: Urban surveys, human settlement analysis and archaeology. Chairman: W. G. Collins, Co-chairman: B. C. Forster, Liaison: P. Hofstee

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Title:: An analysis of remote sensing for monitoring urban derelict land. E. C. Hyatt, J. L. Gray & W. G. Collins

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Symposium on Remote Sensing for Resources Development and Environmental Management / Enschede / August 1986 An analysis of remote sensing for monitoring urban derelict land E.C.Hyatt, J.L.Gray & W.G.Collins Remote Sensing Unit, Aston University, UK ABSTRACT: The use of aerial photography and the potential of Thematic Mapper satellite imagery for monitoring urban derelict land areas are considered. Aerial photography is revealed to be an accurate assessor of derelict and waste land sites at a mapping scale of 1: 10 000, comparing favourably, and being compatible with trends determined by local authorities. The role of satellite data and their problems and prospects are reviewed in the context of urban area studies. Introduction The aims of this paper are to review the use of aerial photography in derelict land studies of the West Midlands Metropolitan County area, and to provide an assessment of the potential in satellite monitoring of this problem. The evaluation of a site in the Dudley County Borough of the Dudley Metropolitan District Council is presented as an example of the utility of aerial photography in change detection and accurate monitoring of derelict and waste land use patterns in a dense urban conurbation. A remote sensing system for derelict land monitoring using Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery is proposed and its application critically evaluated with regard to the findings of previous urban studies employing satellite data. Dereliction in historical perspective Birmingham was revealed to be the third worst area in the UK for dereliction, as a percentage of total County area, by the Department of the Environment's (DOE) 1974 Survey. This amounts to 1.7% under the DOE (1975) classification, but nearer 4.4% using the West Midlands County Council (WMCC) classification, the difference is explained in a later section. The WMCC's 1980/82 survey revealed that by the end of 1980 nearly 5%, 4800 hectares (ha) out of 86,664 ha, could be classed as derelict. Representing an increase of nearly 1000 ha, or 26%, on the 1974 figures, 75% of that increase was within the Black Country District of Dudley, Walsall, Sandwell and Wolverhampton. According to Cave (1983), the amount of land becoming derelict in the County exceeds that being reclaimed by 29%, while the DOE (1977) state that nationally land becoming derelict exceeds that being reclaimed by 1500 ha/year. It seems ironic that this should be the case, with Birminghams potential considered by virtue of its location at the centre of the national road and rail networks. The Black Country has a history of extractive and heavy industries, making it inevitably an area of acute dereliction. However the legacy of despoiled land left from over 500 ninteeth century collieries was substantially reduced from 5,760 ha in 1903 to 3933 ha in 1946 and to 1554 ha in 1965, a net decrease of over 60%. Beaver (1945) suggests that this reclamation was for housing and industrial development during the inter and post war periods, however little attention was paid to planning. The aim of The Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 was to produce development plans that discouraged the mixing of industrial and other land uses. The West Midlands Advisory Plan of 1948 attempted to prevent excessive industrial growth in the districts. Since this was never published, there was no regional framework for local authorities to produce their development plans. The high levels of industrial decentralization never materialized, despite the regulated development encouraged by the Town Development Act of 1952. Instead as Johnson (1958) noted, enclaves of industry, surrounded by housing, had spread across the entire area, with the emphasis on industrial strip development along the dense rail and canal network. Derelict land was consumed by industry to the extent that between 1948 and 1964, and 1964 to 1975, 43% and 36% respectively of all land used for development was formerly classed as derelict. The economic slump has taken its toll of the traditional manufacturing industries. Coupled with the formation of the West Midlands Metropolitan County Council (WMMCC) in 1972 which ensured the differentral decentralization of people and firms through comprehensive redevelopment and planning policies, the relative locational advantages of the Black Country were lost, assisting the closure of many firms and increasing the number of redundant industrial properties. Cave's (1984) survey for the WMCC reveals that 765 vacant properties in the Black Country accounted for an area 1689 ha large, and that 28 of the largest properties comprised over 50% of the total site area vacant, which will probably encourage aggregation. In an attempt to remedy the situation, the Land Reclamation Programme, which previously concentrated on open space schemes by virtue 817

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