Wetlands are sensitive ecosystems that are increasingly subjected to threats from anthropogenic factors. In the last decades, coastal Mediterranean wetlands have been suffering considerable pressures from land use change, intensification of urban growth, increasing tourism infrastructure and intensification of agricultural practices. Remote sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) ...

The work aimed at testing a methodology which can be applied to low spatial resolution satellite data to assess inter-annual crop area variations on sub-pixel to regional scales. The methodology is based on the assumption that within mixed pixels land cover variations are reflected by changes in the related hyper-temporal profiles of the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). We evaluat...

For the precaution against physical soil degradation in managed soils, accurate planning data about anthropogenic impacts and for policy making applicable indicators to describe the driving force and state are required. To assess the potential erosion risk, accurate information is available, but to assess the actual erosion risk it is necessary to regard current land-use and cultivation data fo...

Amat, Corine, Bruno Lapied, Andrew S. French, and Bernard guished by their ability to generate complex and long duraHue. Na-dependent neuritic spikes initiate Ca-dependent sotion action potentials. Intrasomatic recordings have shown matic plateau action potentials in insect dorsal paired median neuthat guinea pig inferior olivary neurons (Llinas and Yarom rons J. Neurophysiol. 80: 2718–2726, 19...

The gravity models are commonly used spatial interaction models. They have been widely applied in a large set of domains dealing with interactions amongst spatial entities. The spread of vector-borne diseases is also related to the intensity of interaction between spatial entities, namely, the physical habitat of pathogens’ vectors and/or hosts, and urban areas, thus humans. This study implemen...

The efficacy of integrating open access geospatial data to produce habitat suitability maps for the corn bunting (Miliaria calandra) was investigated. Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and Corine (Coordination of Information on the Environment) land cover data for the year 2000 (CLC2000) were processed to extract explanatory variables and divi...

Most metrics of urban spatial structure are snapshots, summarizing spatial structure at one particular moment in time. They are therefore not ideal for the analysis of urban change patterns. This paper presents a new spatiotemporal analytical method for raster maps that explicitly registers changes in patterns. The main contribution is a transition matrix which crosstabulates the distance to th...

This contribute deals with the use of surface parameters extracted from satellite remote sensing images for the setup of the input dataset required by pollutants atmospheric dispersion models (PATM). These models need 2D distributions (grids) of many surface parameters to model turbulence parameters, as roughness length, albedo, leaf area index and Bowen ratio. Very often these parameters are s...

Ancient geographical maps are our window into the past for understanding spatial dynamics of last centuries. This paper proposes a novel approach to address this problem using deep learning. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) today state-of-the-art methods in handling variety problems fields image processing. The Cassini map, created eighteenth century, is used illustrate methodology. enables...

Arazi kullanım/örtüsü sınıflandırmalarının yapılarak şehirlerin bilgilerinin takip edilmesi ve değişimlerinin analiz edilmesi, arazilerin doğru amaçla kullanılması çevresel sürdürülebilirlik adına oldukça önemlidir. Bu sınıflandırmalar yapılırken diğer çalışmalarla tutarlılık kıyas yapabilme açısından uluslararası standartlaşmış sınıflandırma yöntemleri gerekmektedir. çalışmada CORINE veri taba...