Many countries in Central and Eastern Europe have been undergoing marked economic changes following the collapse of the former “Eastern Bloc” and totalitarian regimes. In the Czech Republic, this transition has had a profound effect on land use management that subsequently results in widespread land cover changes. This study analyzes trends in land use/land cover changes (LULCC) in the context ...

providing of landing use maps and detecting of land capacity are required to manage of natural resources and environment and planning of land use. on the other hand, it is necessary to detect of the human deriving forces affecting land use change. in this research, we selected seyed mohaleh and drasara villages in tonekabon city. first, were provided the land use maps in 1987 and 2008 by using ...

When the surface impedance of the earth along the propagation direction changes abruptly, the ground wave is strongly affected as it occurs when the radio wave traverses a coastline from the land to the sea [1]-[8]. In this study, we shall obtain the integral representation for the ground wave propagation over the land-to-sea mixed-path by applying the aperture field method. Then by applying th...

Impacts of urban land use can include increased stormwater runoff temperature (Tw) leading to receiving water quality impairment. There is therefore a need to target and mitigate sources of thermal pollution in urban areas. However, complex relationships between urban development, stormwater runoff and stream water heating processes are poorly understood. A nested-scale experimental watershed s...

In order to improve biological control of agricultural pests, it is fundamental to understand which factors influence the composition of natural enemies in agricultural landscapes. In this study, we aimed to understand how agricultural land use affects a number of different traits in ground beetle communities to better predict potential consequences of land-use change for ecosystem functioning....

Title: MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION MODELS AND SOLUTION METHODS FOR PLANNING LAND DEVELOPMENT USING MINIMUM SPANNING TREES, LAGRANGIAN RELAXATION AND DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUES José Alberto Faria, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Directed By: Professor Steven A. Gabriel Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Program University of Maryland The...

Conventional approaches to measuring accessibility benefits are not capable of fully measuring the total accessibility benefits of integrated land-use ^ transport strategies, in which both land-use and transport changes form part of the policy strategy. In this paper a comprehensive methodology for analysing accessibility impacts and accessibility benefits, which is based on location-based and ...

Understanding how human land use patterns influence mosquito ecology and the risk of mosquito-borne pathogens is critical for the development of disease management strategies. We examined how different environments influenced mosquito species composition, abundance, and West Nile virus (WNV) infection rates in central Illinois. Using a combination of gravid traps and CDC light traps, adult mosq...

For researching properties of HJ-1A CCD camera multispectral data in performance on extraction of land features information, this paper selected the east area of NiLeke forest farm in the western Tianshan mountain as the study area, and analyzed different accuracies for HJ-1A CCD data in identifying forest land categories using various classification methods. Firstly, maximumlikelihood classifi...