Tranquillity Trails for urban areas

Modeling Housing Demand for New Residential Buildings in Urban Areas

T his study investigates the factors affecting the demand for new residential buildings in urban areas of Iran during 1976-2010. The demand function for new residential buildings in urban areas was estimated and then the existence of a long-run relationship among variables of this function was studied using the Bounds testing of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Co-integration procedure. The t...

Area deprivation affects behavioral problems of young adolescents in mixed urban and rural areas: the TRAILS study.

PURPOSE Behavioral problems occur more frequently among adolescents in deprived areas, but most evidence concerns urbanized areas. Our aim was to assess the impact of area deprivation and urbanization on the occurrence and development of behavioral problems among adolescents in a mixed urban and rural area and to examine the contributory factors. METHODS We obtained data from the first two wa...

Radar-derived Dems for Urban Areas

The role for Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) has been expanding rapidly in recent years. Applications are increasing and encompass industries as diverse as telecommunications, forestry, municipal engineering and precision agriculture to name only a few. The accuracy and detail required varies with application, and a number of technologies are able to provide DEMs appropriate to particular mappi...

Systems to Support Decisions for Urban Areas

Spectral resolution requirements for mapping urban areas

This study evaluated how spectral resolution of high-spatial resolution optical remote sensing data influences detailed mapping of urban land cover. A comprehensive regional spectral library and low altitude data from the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) were used to characterize the spectral properties of urban land cover. The Bhattacharyya distance was applied as a meas...