Due to the increasing number of digital remote sensing data taken by aeroplane and satellite which are used for the updating of maps and the environmental or agricultural monitoring, there is a need to automate the registration and interpretation of these images. The approach described here treats the segmentation of roads (linear objects) in different sensor data (SAR, IR, VIS and maps) which ...

Many of the analyses undertaken by environmental and resource economics are intimately concerned with spatial variations. This article examines the contribution which Geographical Information Systems (GIS) may provide in incorporating the complexities of the spatial dimension within such analyses. The paper introduces the reader to the types of data handled by a GIS and overviews the practical ...

Although many GIS have been successfully implemented, it has become quite clear that two-dimensional maps with most complex contours and color schema cannot precisely present multidimensional and dynamic spatial phenomena. Most GISs in use today have not been designed to support multimedia data and therefore have very limited capability due to the large data volumes, very rich semantics and ver...

This chapter addresses two issues. The first concerns the integration of dynamic and spatial modelling: there are numerous tools available for doing one or the other, but very little for supporting both. The second concerns the flexibility of available tools for representing space: most spatial modelling systems and GIS tend to constrain the user to a limited number of spatial representation fr...

Spatial accessibility to public service facilities is critical for allocating the limited resources to the most needed places. In view of the previous literatures usually about the domains of health care and green space, only a few of studies on public service facilities and specific parameter setting with explicit and scientific basis, like search radius, so there is a pressing need to determi...

Planners are being called on to prioritize marine shorelines for conservation status and restoration action. This study documents an approach to determining the management strategy most likely to succeed based on current conditions at local and landscape scales. The conceptual framework based in restoration ecology pairs appropriate restoration strategies with sites based on the likelihood of p...

This paper synthesizes lessons learnt from research that aimed to identify land in the dryland regions of eight sub-Saharan African study countries where bioenergy feedstocks production has a low risk of detrimental environmental and socio-economic effects. The methodology involved using geographical information systems (GISs) to interrogate a wide range of datasets, aerial photograph and field...

A growing body of literature explores the relationship between the built environment and health, and the methodological challenges of understanding these complex interactions across the lifecourse. The impact of the neighbourhood environment on health and behaviour amongst older adults has received less attention, despite this age group being potentially more vulnerable to barriers in their sur...

Coasts are areas that are under the influence of the interaction of the air, water and land and attract attention with the abundance of their natural resources and therefore are subjected to excessive usage. This excessive usage may disturb the sensitive balance of the coast ecosystem. In this study, the changes in Arapçiftligi, Poyraz, Dalyan lakes area found in Kocacay delta located in the so...