Land consolidation is the basis of making the land arrangement special plan, meanwhile, land consolidation sub area, ascertaining land consolidation item and setting land consolidation indices are mainly depended on land consolidation potentiality, so it is necessary to do this research. As the most important pattern of land consolidation, potential evaluation of cultivated land consolidation i...

Integrated land-use and transport interaction models (LUTI) are praised for their ability to evaluate land-use and transport planning in an integrated and consistent modeling system. However, applications of empirically estimated land use models are rare. This paper will present the application of the Dutch national land-use/transport interaction model TIGRIS XL in a recent land-use and transpo...

Hong Kong has been using the leasehold system of land management rather than freehold since its colonial era. This system controlled and presently still controls uses of leased land through leasehold conditions. Many leases granted decades ago thus require formal modifications to lease conditions to formalize proposed changes in land use, or to realize the actual present economic value of the l...

New Zealand has a legal 3D cadastre, and has done since the inception of its cadastral survey and tenure systems around 150 years ago. However, the digital representation of the cadastre is 2D with 3D situations handled via static plan, section and elevation images and supporting textual information. Work is currently underway to develop a 3D digital cadastre that will enable the 3D spatial ext...

This study introduces and evaluates a new methodology using information on image spatial form (spatial metrics) to describe structures and changes in urban land use. The metrics were calculated for segmented areas of homogenous urban land use structure derived from digitally classified color infrared aerial photographs. The results indicate a useful description and separation of three urban lan...

land use change is driven by interaction in space and time between humans and the environment that can be captured by computer simulation models (veldkamp and verburg, 2004). in the last few decades, land use change models have played an important role in understanding the causes, mechanisms and consequences of land use dynamics. sleuth is an open source cellular automata based land use change ...

Arctic coastal regions are threatened by changing climatic conditions and anthropogenic disturbances. Since SAR systems operate independently from external illumination and are not affected by cloud shadowing, they are suitable for continuous monitoring of pan-arctic environments. In this work we show the application of dual co-polarized (HH/VV) TerraSAR-X (TSX) data for unsupervised water and ...

This paper presents a soft systems evaluation of two multi-objective genetic algorithms (mGAs) applied to land use planning. These mGAs search for a set of alternative solutions de ning the structure of the relationship between two or more objectives. To investigate the usefulness of the mGAs for decision support the sets of solutions found by the mGAs are compared with allocations made by prof...