Contemporary urban areas are complex economic and transportation systems having a structured land use pattern. The utility value of land use is a measurement unit of the value of a specific land use zone in relation to the whole economic system. It is the effective economic output value of land use and it is defined according to concepts of accessibility level, economic level and spatial intera...

High landscape diversity is assumed to increase the number and level of ecosystem services. However, the interactions between ecosystem service provision, disturbance and landscape composition are poorly understood. Here we present a novel approach to include uncertainty in the optimization of land allocation for improving the provision of multiple ecosystem services. We refer to the rehabilita...

The emergences of more Earth observation satellites have increased the use of satellite imagery in applications like Land cover detection, environment monitoring etc. The information is generally extracted from satellite images by classification techniques. A common Problem associated with classification process is frequent occurrence of mixed pixel. Mixed Pixels are major cause of uncertainty ...

Multisite LandUse Allocation Problem (MLUA) refers to the problem of allocatingmore than one land use type in an area. MLUA problem is one of the truly NP Complete (combinatorial optimization) problems. To cope with this type of problems, intelligent techniques such as genetic algorithms, and simulated annealing, have been used. Research in the area of Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS) fo...

Land use planning is a science that determines the type of land use through studying the ecological character of the land as well as its socio-economic structure. It is possible to plan for the appropriate use of the land and to enhance the present management of the land use by utilizing Geographical Information System (GIS). To this end, our investigators identified and took steps toward devel...

land use planning is a science that determines the type of land use through studying the ecological character of the land as well as its socio-economic structure. it is possible to plan for the appropriate use of the land and to enhance the present management of the land use by utilizing geographical information system (gis). to this end, our investigators identified and took steps toward devel...