Forests are usually assessed as a discrete land cover type. However, we hypothesise that the resources associated with forests show diverse spatial patterns, only partially matching current forest boundaries. Therefore tree vegetation parameters related to relevant forest resources at the landscape level were assessed for the Canton of Geneva in western Switzerland. LIDAR based digital terrain ...

and Applied Analysis 3 TM images MODIS Meteorogical data Other dataset Landuse NDVI Precipitation Temperature Wind DEM Soil Dataset of study area Soil erosion sensitivity Soil desertification sensitivity Landscape unit plaques density Landscape evenness index Land utilization degree composite index Ecological suitability index Land resources utilization degree index Ecological vulnerability in ...

Although complexity and vulnerability assessment of mountain landscapes is increasingly taken into consideration, less attention is paid to ecophronesis-based solutions so as to reduce the fragile ecosystem vulnerability. The main propose of this study is to provide an insight of mountain complex landscape vulnerability and propose ecophronesis-based solutions in strategic planning framework fo...

the scientific panel on “landscape ecology” was held in nazar research center by presence of professors and experts in “landscape” and “ecology”, in order to discuss the relation of these concepts and definition of “landscape ecology”. in this panel arranged by dr. seyed amir mansouri, director of landscape architecture department at university of tehran and president of nazar research center, ...

Criteria need to be developed to evaluate the cultural environment of European rural landscapes. The goal is to evaluate and encourage the contribution of organic farming to sustainable landscape quality. Two sets of criteria were used to evaluate the quality of the cultural environment, non-expert and expert values. The non-expert values consisted of criteria for the appreciation of the presen...

A system for object-based classification of landscape types incorporating topographic data was designed and tested in a Japanese countryside target area. IKONOS data (Japan Space Imaging multi-spectral resolution 4 meter, panchromatic resolution 1 meter) acquired on 23 April 2001 was utilized, and the classification used Definiens Ver.5 software (Definiens). Initial segmentation was a muli-reso...

The eastern coastal region of China has been experiencing rapid urbanization which has imposed great challenges on soil resources, characterized by soil sealing and fragmented soil landscapes. Taking Zhejiang Province—a fairly economically-developed and highly-urbanized region in eastern China—as a case study, a practical framework that integrates remote sensing, GIS, soil quality assessment an...