Data Accessibility Statement
The authors declare that all data supporting the findings of this study
are available within the article and its supplementary information
files. However, the land use/cover change dataset analyzed during this
study were derived from EarthExplorer domain of Landsat program
(https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/).
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