Detection and identification leading to interpretation and mapping of tea gardens from satellite images is the prerequisite for application of remote sensing technology to monitor and management of tea gardens. This paper discusses the development of a fuzzy knowledge-based image interpretation system for mapping of tea gardens from satellite images. It emulates the multi-stage, multi-feature a...

a winding pathway so that visitors encountered specimens in a taxonomic sequence. Growing related plants together, in effect, organizes a collection into a living encyclopedia, allowing for comparison of the characteristics of species within a genus or genera within a family. By planting related taxa in an evolutionary progression, the more complicated sequential taxonomic arrangement reveals t...

This paper will concentrate on the result of a research based on comparative study between two Persian gardens in different micro climates in arid regions. Sustainability could be observed in many aspects and elements of traditional Iranian architecture and landscape architecture, and this method of design has used to solve many problems for many centuries. Gardens of Iran have had special role...

Abstract Plant communities in urban gardens consist of cultivated species, including ornamentals and food crops, wild growing species. Yet it remains unclear what significance have for the plant diversity cities how plants depends on level urbanization. We sampled within 18 community Berlin, Germany to investigate species plants. tested relation local landscape-scale imperviousness as a measure...

We identify and analyse practices management regimes around burial handling of ashes across eight case study towns within six Northern European countries. cemeteries crematoria gardens, majority provision for minority communities, including various types, cremated remains, the re-use graves, costs interments. Comparative data is drawn from analysis national local regulations, interviews with st...

Fungus-gardening insects are among the most complex organisms because of their extensive co-evolutionary histories with obligate fungal symbionts and other microbes. Some fungus-gardening insect lineages share fungal symbionts with other members of their lineage and thus exhibit diffuse co-evolutionary relationships, while others exhibit little or no symbiont sharing, resulting in host-fungus f...

Claw health, an important dairy cow welfare parameter, may be affected by early-life foot/leg stresses. To investigate this, groups of pregnant heifers were allocated to deep straw bedding (Soft) or cubicles (Hard), both with scraped concrete feeding alleys. After the grazing season, they were re-housed in cubicle systems, half on slatted concrete (Hard) and half on slatted rubber (Soft) alleys...

Urban agriculture is recently being recognized as a distinctive urban land use contributing to greenspaces and food security. The land inventory forms the critical first step in identifying sites for urban agriculture. The authors’ analysis greatly expands on prior land inventory strategies, first analyzing land cover to identify all open areas available for siting urban agriculture. Then in GI...