North Hebei province lies in the ecotone from agriculture to animal husbandry and forest and is eco-fragile transitional region. Serous land degradation, especially grassland degradation occurs in this area, because of overgrazing and over-reclamation. There are also many disasters, such as drought, dust storm, forest fire, and so on. This area has characteristics of ecological degradation and ...

TLA geographical information system (GIS) is a digitalised mapping process in which data from topographical maps, remote sensing satellite imagery, high-altitude photographs and other maps can be layered and analysed. GIS has been applied to a number of research disciplines because it is an effective means of relating data to geography. An important advantage of using GIS is that layers of unre...

Geospatial Health was launched as a forum for the publication of essential epidemiological information derived from the application of geographical information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), spatial statistics and remote sensing from Earth-orbiting satellites. The above-mentioned tools were developed in parallel over the last 50 years and were originally used for diverse appli...

abstract a great part of iran’s area, especially yazd province is formed as deserted areas. kavir siahkooh is one of the most important desert areas of province. the researches show that the arid areas have an ideal condition for remote sensing and it can consider and show the plant coverage of the area .the aim of this study is to evaluate kavir siahkooh plant coverage and it’s comprise with t...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) techniques are of great interest for the renewable energy field [...]

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The aim of this study is prospecting of iron and manganese in the Balvard 1:100000 sheet which is situated in Sanandaj - Sirjan structural zone utilizing Index Overlay and Fuzzy Logic methods in the GIS. In this study, the layers for integration, alterations, geological, geophysical, geochemical and structural data based on stream sediments, airborne magnetometeric and remote sensing studies. B...