Hi,
As the project states you require a landscape disturbance Index. I have been working in the field of remote sensing and GIS for more than 6+ years and am well aware of different indexes that relate to landscape disturbances. I have licensed software of ArcGIS, Erdas Imagine, ENVI and Matlab. I believe that your project can be easily carried out in either ArcGIS, for parcel based landscapes, or Matlab for raster based repetitive processes. I currently work at a government organziation and have completed related projects: like the landuse and landcover mapping for the whole country in Ecognition, Thematic oriented classification of various cities and others. I have full knowledge of satellite images and gis vector data, and have been working on SPOT, Quickbird, World View, Geoeye, Pleades, and other satellite images.
Best Regards
Sobia Yusha