Abstract—During the last decade Panicum virgatum, known as Switchgrass, has been broadly studied because of its remarkable attributes as a substitute pasture and as a functional biofuel source. The objective of this investigation was to establish soil suitability for Switchgrass in the State of Mississippi. A linear weighted additive model was developed to forecast soil suitability. Multicriter...

Land-use planners oftenmake complex decisions within a short period of time when they must take into account sustainable development and economic competitiveness. A set of land-use suitability maps would be very useful in this respect. Ideally, these maps should incorporatecomplexcriteria integrating several stakeholders’ points of view. To illustrate the feasibility of this approach, a land su...

Aim, Location Although the alpine mouse Apodemus alpicola has been given species status since 1989, no distribution map has ever been constructed for this endemic alpine rodent in Switzerland. Based on redetermined museum material and using the Ecological-Niche Factor Analysis (ENFA), habitat-suitability maps were computed for A. alpicola, and also for the co-occurring A. flavicollis and A. syl...

There are three main objectives of this monograph: (i) to provide an introduction to geographical information technology along with an historical perspective on the evolving role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in planning, (ii) to overview relevant methods and techniques for GISbased land-use suitability mapping and modeling, and (iii) to identify the trends, challenges and prospects o...

one of the most famous horticultural exporting products of iran is saffron. at present, the main region for the production of saffron is the northeast region of iran (khorasan-e razavi and southern khorasan provinces). the present research intends to survey the suitable areas for cultivation of saffron in the west of iran (kermanshah and kurdistan provinces) which, in the climatic conditions, i...

In this paper, we investigate relative localization techniques based on internode distance measurements for small wireless networks. High precision ranging is assumed, which is achieved by using technologies such as ultra-wide band (UWB) ranging. A number of approaches are formulated and compared for relative location estimation, which include the Linear Least Squares (LLS) approach, the Maximu...

Air pollution directional risk (APDR) is an essential factor to be assessed when selecting an appropriate landfill site. Because air pollutants generated from a landfill are diffused and transported by wind in different directions and speeds, areas surrounding the landfill will be subject to different associated risks, depending on their relative position from the landfill. This study assesses ...

Changes in land use the Alo Pohu watershed have concerned government preventing siltation of Limboto Lake, along with floods and slides. On that ground, present study was conducted to analyze spatial prediction land-use changes watershed, Gorontalo Regency, Indonesia, 2000-2017 period for 2030 prediction. The method analysis data predict involved Powersim Version 10 Idrisi apps. Further, consis...