During recent years, oak decline has been widely spread across Brant’s oak (Quercus Brantii Lindl.) stands in the Zagros Mountains, Western Iran, which caused large-area forest dieback in several sites. Mapping the intensity and spatial distribution of forest dieback is essential for developing management and control strategies. This study evaluated a range of geostatistical and interpolation m...

BACKGROUND We assessed whether the reported decrease in fertility rates among 15 to 19 years old Brazilian adolescents has met with a parallel decrease in very young adolescent (10 to 14 years old) fertility rates. So we explored temporal trends for fertility rates among very young adolescents between 2000 and 2012 for Brazil as a whole, its regions and states; and also analyzed the spatial dis...

Municipal GIS Implementations: Top-down vs. Bottom-up Track: State and Local Government Author(s): Haiqing Xu There are always cases that spatial data is needed for one-time use only or by a smaller group of people. For example, spatial data collected from sample surveys often becomes outdated very soon but may be critical for a specific decision-making process. On the other hand, there are alw...

This paper investigates the pattern of COVID-19 contagion in Portuguese municipalities from March 23rd to April 5th (the exponential phase). We have recurred spatial autocorrelation models discuss how conglomeration highly infectious spaces has also contributed infecting neighbouring municipalities. used several indicators for number individuals rates infectious. As explicative variables, addit...

A group of geographically close spatial units that shows a similar prevalence pattern – significantly highis called a hotspot and, when it is low or drain-like –outlet effect, this area is called a coldspot. Both areas can be identified through the evaluation of the degree of agreement between Local Indicators of Spatial Aggregation (LISA) and Bayesian Conditional Autorregresive (CAR) scores. A...

ABSTRACT: Objective: To estimate premature mortality due to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in Brazilian municipalities. Methods: This ecological study estimated rates cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory cancer and diabetes municipalities, for the three-year periods of 2010 2012 2015 2017, it analyzed spatial temporal distribution these rates. Data treatment combined proportional redis...