Recently, it is required to investigate the distribution of vegetation-covered areas on a regional scale for not only the improvement of urban environment but also the conservation of ecosystem. The spatial continuity of vegetation-covered areas like a green corridor plays an important role for the preservation of ecological balance especially. For the analysis of the spatial distribution of ve...

Evidence increasingly suggests that sub-Saharan Africa is at the center of human evolution and understanding routes of dispersal "out of Africa" is thus becoming increasingly important. The Sahara Desert is considered by many to be an obstacle to these dispersals and a Nile corridor route has been proposed to cross it. Here we provide evidence that the Sahara was not an effective barrier and in...

Transportation corridor management is regularly performed for evaluation of road conditions, hazards, and planning, and is traditionally based on the manual inspection of the corridors. Recent research projects have evaluated advanced remote sensing technologies, such as LiDAR and photogrammetry, to replace preliminary field evaluations with desktop studies through evaluation of 3d sensor data....

Supply chains are the backbone of trade and commerce. Their logistics use different transport corridors on regular basis for operation al purpose. The international supply chain transport corridors include different infrastructure elements (e.g. weighbridge, package handling equipments, border clearance authorities, and so on). Th is paper presents th e use of multi-agent systems (MAS) to model...

With technology advancement and increasing popularity of location-aware devices, trajectory data are ubiquitous in the real world. Trajectory corridor, as one of the moving patterns, is composed of concatenated sub-trajectory clusters which help analyze the behaviors of moving objects. In this paper we adopt a three-phase approach to discover trajectory corridors using Fréchet distance as a dis...

Conservation scientists emphasize the importance of maintaining a connected network of protected areas to prevent ecosystems and populations from becoming isolated, reduce the risk of extinction, and ultimately sustain biodiversity. Keeping protected areas connected in a network is increasingly recognized as a conservation priority in the current era of rapid climate change. Models that identif...

High-speed intercity passenger rail projects are very complex and require many years of planning and environmental activities before construction can begin. Given the complexity of planning and environmental reviews associated with high-speed intercity passenger rail corridor planning, a systematic approach for high-level screening of various alternative routings for proposed high-speed rail co...

From a mobility perspective, walking is considered to be the most sustainable transport mode. One of the consequences of motor-oriented urban configuration on pedestrian mobility is urban fragmentation, which affects sustainability in cities. In this paper, we use a natural-based approach to landscape fragmentation and connectivity (inherited from landscape ecology) for pedestrian mobility plan...

To investigate the possible role of landscape connectivity on the genetic structure of isolated populations, we examined the effects of habitat corridors on the population genetics of a vagile butterfl y species, Junonia coenia, within a largescale, experimental system. Using allozyme electrophoresis, a total of nine loci were identifi ed and scored, six of which exhibited polymorphism. Our dat...

We focus on the construction of confidence corridors for multivariate nonparametric generalized quantile regression functions. This construction is based on asymptotic results for the maximal deviation between a suitable nonparametric estimator and the true function of interest which follow after a series of approximation steps including a Bahadur representation, a new strong approximation theo...