abstract achieving economic growth, as one of the essential purposes in each country, needs appropriate tracing of government as one of the important and effective sections in that economy. nowadays, unlike the 80s, economists concentrate on objectives such as explanation of the relationship between size of the government and economic growth and delineation of optimum size of the government whi...

Hyperspectral images and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data have, respectively, the high spectral resolution and accurate elevation information required for urban land-use/land-cover (LULC) classification. To combine the respective advantages of hyperspectral and LiDAR data, this paper proposes an optimal decision fusion method based on adaptive differential evolution, namely ODF-ADE, for...

Recent theory suggests that global warming may be catastrophic for tropical ectotherms. Although most studies addressing temperature effects in ectotherms utilize constant temperatures, Jensen's inequality and thermal stress considerations predict that this approach will underestimate warming effects on species experiencing daily temperature fluctuations in nature. Here, we tested this predicti...

Land use land cover (LULC) changes frequently in ecotones due to the large climate and soil gradients, and complex landscape composition and configuration. Accurate mapping of LULC changes in ecotones is of great importance for assessment of ecosystem functions/services and policy-decision support. Decadal or sub-decadal mapping of LULC provides scenarios for modeling biogeochemical processes a...

Monitoring the impact of changes in land use/land cover (LULC) and surface temperature (LST) is great importance environmental urban studies. In this context, study aimed to analyze dynamics LULC its on spatiotemporal variation LST two largest cities Syria, Damascus, Aleppo. To achieve this, changes, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), were calculated from multi-temporal Landsat data...

Abstract The Accra Metropolis of Ghana has experienced rapid urban expansion over the past decades. Agricultural and forestlands have been transformed into urban/built-up areas. This study analysed its relationship with temperature from 1986 to 2022. Multi-source datasets such as remote sensing (RS) other ancillary data were utilised. Land use land cover (LULC) maps produced employing random fo...

Global climate change, such as that due to the proposed enhanced greenhouse effect, is likely to have a significant effect on biosphere-atmosphere interactions, including bushfire regimes. This study quantifies the possible impact of climate change on fire regimes by estimating changes in fire weather and the McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index (FDI), an index that is used throughout Australia to...