Drought index is a useful tool to assess and respond to drought. However, current drought indices could not fully reveal land use effects and they have limitations in applications. Besides, El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), strongly influences the climate of Florida. Hence, understanding ENSO patterns on a regional scale and developing a new land use drought index suitable for Florida are cr...

Land suitability analysis, commonly known as land evaluation, is considered an interface between land resourcesurvey and land use planning and management. Land evaluation be carried out to estimate the suitability of land fora specific use such as arable farming or irrigated agriculture. There are several established techniques for generatingland suitability evaluation. This research was carrie...

This paper analyzes the interactions between land use and forest cover in the Upper Midwest, USA from 1970 to 1990. New data are presented and interpreted to evaluate the effects of land-use changes, especially abandonment of agriculture and dispersed development, on forest cover throughout the region. Forest-cover data were collected from Landsat satellite imagery and land use was interpreted ...

In a tsunami event human casualties and infrastructure damage are determined predominantly by seaquake intensity and offshore properties. On land, wave energy is attenuated by gravitation (elevation) and friction (land cover). Tree belts have been promoted as "bioshields" against wave impact. However, given the lack of quantitative evidence of their performance in such extreme events, tree belt...

using of different systems of soil plough after changing unconsciously and non-scientific of land use, other soil physical and chemical characteristics affected. this fact, especially in marginal lands and mountainous regions is more visible. this research compared with the purpose of studying land use changing on some soil physical and chemical characters like very tiny sand percent, ph, ec, c...