THE EFFECTS OF RESIDENTIAL MINIMUM LOT SIZE ZONING ON LAND DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF OAKLAND COUNTY, MICHIGAN By Brian P. Foley Considerable theoretical and empirical debate has addressed the effects of minimum lot size zoning regulations on the development of land. The direction of this relationship certainly has relevance for policy. Previous studies have used econometric techniques to estimat...

This paper proposes a new method, called linear grouping algorithm (LGA), to detect different linear structures in a data set. LGA is useful for investigating potential linear patterns in datasets, that is, subsets that follow different linear relationships. LGA combines ideas from principal components, clustering methods and resampling algorithms. It can detect several different linear relatio...

Time-series data from wide-field sensors, acquired for the period of a growing season or longer, capitalize on phenological changes in vegetation and make it possible to identify vegetated land cover types in greater detail. Our objective was to examine the utility of time-series data to rapidly update maps of vegetation condition and land cover change in Mexico as an input to biodiversity mode...

Secondary salinity caused by rising saline groundwater due to the clearing of land for agriculture has caused serious loss of productive land in Western Australia. In 1989, the Australian Bureau of Statistics conducted a survey of farmers which reported that 443 441 ha or 2.83 percent of the 15.7 million ha of cleared land in south-western Australia was saline. A further survey in 1994 showed t...

Converting mangroves to other land cover types can induce large emissions of carbon dioxide, depending on the type use and (LULC) change. However, may also recover their ecosystem stocks rapidly following restoration, potentially offsetting stock losses. While studies have quantified these tradeoffs at global scales using coarse metrics, fewer them national higher resolution. Here, we used high...

Accurate geospatial information on the extent of irrigated land improves our understanding of agricultural water use, local land surface processes, conservation or depletion of water resources, and components of the hydrologic budget. We have developed a method in a geospatial modeling framework that assimilates irrigation statistics with remotely sensed parameters describing vegetation growth ...

Systematic and comprehensive compilation of land use statistics is necessary for planned development of agriculture, forests, grasslands, rural settlements, urban spreads, industries and other land based programmes and activities. The need for optimizing land use in an integrated manner has become particularly relevant in recent years as a consequence of compelling and conflicting demands of gr...

We present power law statistics on land markets, which no other studies have so far done. We analyze a database of the assessed value of land that is officially monitored and is made public by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Government of Japan. This is the largest database of Japan’s land prices consisting of approximately 30,000 points for each year of a 6-year period (1995...

In response to the need for generic remote sensing tools to support large-scale agricultural monitoring, we present a new approach for regional-scale mapping of agricultural land-use systems (ALUS) based on object-based Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time series analysis. The approach consists of two main steps. First, to obtain relatively homogeneous land units in terms of pheno...