Assessing land use/land cover dynamics in two identified “hot spot” areas: Oudomxay Province of Lao PDR and Mekong Delta of Vietnam

摘要: The macro-scale time series analysis of AVHRR data for Lao PDR and Vietnam identified two hot'hot spot'areas, one in Oudomxay province of Lao PDR and the other in Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Detailed investigation of these areas using high resolution satellite data supplemented by field survey revea@, d some interesting observations. In this paper some of the pertinent issues such as driving forces responsible for the changes, policy implications and future scenarios have been discussed for both the cases.