Analysis of Land Use and Cover Trajectory (ALUCT)

Analysis of Land Use and Cover Trajectory (ALUCT) can go beyond direct visual interpretation of geogle earth and quantify change. ALUCT has four stages work flow as follow: (1) Clarification of the questions; (2) Image acquisition and pre-processing; (3) Image classification based on ground-truth sample points and/or pre-established spatial patterns; and (4) Post interpretation analysis focussed on the research questions of interest. This tool is an important part of several of the TUL-SEA Tools, including the RaCSA, RHA and RABA (rapid appraisal of carbon stocks, hydrology and agrobiodiversity, respectively) methods. It also forms the basis of scenario studies (FALLOW), land tenure claim appraisal (RATA) and analysis of the drivers of land use change (DriLUC).