As the boundary between sea and land, information on location type of coastline constantly changes with environmental in coastal zones. Monitoring long time series becomes important for monitoring assessment zone environment. In this study, Landsat images from five periods (1990, 2000, 2010, 2015, 2020) were selected analyzing length, sea–land pattern, index diversity, fractal dimension charact...

The NSF-funded Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program has committed itself to examining the linkages between ecosystems and human society, particularly through ecosystem services: naturally-occurring processes and provisions that benefit humankind. Natural scientists have pointed to ecosystem services valuation as being a key tool for drawing societal attention to natural capital, and, in...

4 Humans are increasingly altering the Earth’s surface, and affecting processes that shape and 5 reshape landscapes. In many cases, humans are reacting to landscape-change processes that 6 represent natural hazards. Thus, the landscape is reacting to humans who are reacting to the 7 landscape. When the timescales for landscape change are comparable to those of human 8 dynamics, human and ‘natur...

To understand the role of the world's coastal zone (CZ) in global biogeochemical fluxes (particularly those of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediments) we must generalize from a limited number of observations associated with a few well-studied coastal systems to the global scale. Global generalization must be based on globally available data and on robust techniques for classification and u...

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A number of hedonic property pricing studies of flood risk indicate that properties within a designated higher flood risk zone sell for a lower price than an equivalent property outside of it. However, often the homes most at flood risk are also the most desirable in terms of their proximity to the water, and this concurrent existence of positive water-related amenities and negative flood risk ...

APPLICATION OF FRACTALS TO MATERIALS SCIENCE Introduction The term “Fractals” refers to the mathematical concept of how vastly different objects can be described using the same mathematical relationships. For example, the coastline of a continent viewed from space will have readily visible distinct attributes such as bays, peninsulas, and relatively straight sections. If we now observe a coastl...