Understanding the relationship between land-use/land-cover change (LULCC) and environment is seriously important to manage arid land. However, information on how environmental factors influence the LULCC patterns at different scales in arid area is lacking. This paper investigates the application of RS/GIS for detecting LULCC and assessing its impact on surface temperature in the Ismailia Gover...

background: we conducted a comprehensive bibliometrics analysis to calculate the h, g, m, a and r indicators for all iranian biomedical research centers (ibrcs) from the output of isi web of science (wos) and scopus between 1991 and 2010. we compared the research performance of the research centers according to these indicators.   methods : this was a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical ...