This paper describes a methodology by which modelers, ecologists and planners can quantify the certainty in predicting the location of change for a given quantity of change. The specification of the quantity of a land cover category and the specification of the location of a land cover category are two distinct fundamental concepts in geographical analysis. It is crucial that scientists have ap...

extended abstractintroductiona map is a drawing ground features on one side of the paper. the cartographic maps are representations of the earth upon a flat surface in the smaller scale than it’s true. large scale maps cover relatively small regions in great detail and small scale maps cover large regions such as nations, continents and the whole globe. logical connection between the features a...

This report describes the methodologies, analyses, and results for an independent accuracy assessment of a thematic benthic habitat map produced by NOAA for the Lower Florida Keys. It is a reanalysis of a previous accuracy assessment for a different classification scheme. Over the course of the Florida Keys mapping project, NOAA amended part of the classification scheme. The original scheme for...

—Accuracy assessment or validation has become a standard component of any land cover or vegetation map derived from remotely sensed data. Knowing the accuracy of the map is vital to any decisionmaking performed using that map. The process of assessing the map accuracy is time consuming and expensive. It is very important that the procedure be well thought out and carefully planned to be as effi...

ecotourism as the most attractive subset of the tourism industry can contribute to natural resource conservation and local development. although great numbers of people annually visit abbasabad area, in veresk, mazandaran, to enjoy its brilliant landscape and moderate ecologic condition, there is no applicable plan for many natural attractive zones in this area. as a result, some specific well ...

Ecotourism as the most attractive subset of the tourism industry can contribute to natural resource conservation and local development. Although great numbers of people annually visit Abbasabad area, in Veresk, Mazandaran, to enjoy its brilliant landscape and moderate ecologic condition, there is no applicable plan for many natural attractive zones in this area. As a result, some specific well ...

One of the objectives of Forest Dragon 2 project is the generation of a forest cover change map between 1990s and 2000s for Northeast China based on ERS-1/2 tandem data and ENVISAT ASAR data. For the 1990s’ map, an automatic and seasonal-adaptive retrieval of forest biomass method was used to produce a forest biomass map based on the ERS tandem interferometric coherence. The biomass map was int...

Two global 1 km land cover data sets derived from 1992-1993 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data are currently available, the International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme Data and Information System (IGBP-DIS) DISCover and the University of Maryland (UMd) 1 km land cover maps. This paper makes a preliminary comparison of the methodologies and results of the two products. The DIS...

Soil organic matter has positive consequences eht rof quality and productivityof soil and also environment, agricultural and biological sustainability and conservation ofbiodiversity and soil. Organic matter plays an important role in the physical and chemicalprocesses of soil and thus, it is of a great effect on the spectral characteristics of soil. Thisstudy was done in order to develop the m...

This is the first of two articles which explore the comtained using the TM map. The performance of samples selected by a combination of cover composition and conbined use of coarse and fine resolution data in land cover studies. It describes the development and evaluation of tagion index responded to the characteristics of individual tiles in terms of the selection criteria. A rigorous applian ...