Brazil’s Cerrado is a highly diverse ecosystem and it provides critical habitat for many species. Cerrado habitats have suffered significant degradation and decline over the past decades due to expansion of cash crops and livestock farming across South America. Approximately 1,800,000 km2 of the Cerrado remain in Brazil, but detailed maps and conservation assessments of the Cerrado are lacking....

Forests are important place for outdoor recreation and scenery appreciation. So in order to better meet the needs of the public, forest appreciation has received increasing attention from foresters in recent years. However, related research is still limited. Therefore, this paper seeks to examine the relationship between forest colors (measured by specific elements and spatial indices of color)...

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The rapid economic development resulting from Chinese economic reform has greatly accelerated urbanization and industrialization, thus leading to alterations in the natural landscape. Understanding the extent of these changes is important for regional sustainable land management. An integrated approach with a geographic information system and remote sensing was used to extract land use/land cov...

We examine relationships between landscape scale measurements of rangeland complexity and cattle stocking rates in Kansas. Rangeland complexity was characterized using Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite imagery and the USGS National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD). Satellite Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values were summed over the 2002 growing-season and then ...

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Based on the research current situation and transformation path of spatial construction villages towns in northern Jiangsu, “compactness” “convenience” are extracted as elements evaluation. With multi-source data, comprehensively using ENVI remote sensing image interpretation, GIS analysis, Fragstats landscape index calculation, entropy weight–TOPSIS comprehensive evaluation, SPSS cluster a “di...

Muthurajawela Marsh and Negombo Lagoon have lost their marshland mangroves from 41% 21% accordingly 1997 to 2017. Vegetation land fragmentation (VLF) is the foremost reason that accelerates vegetation cover change. However, Sri Lanka has not been given sufficient attention investigate VLF with case studies. Further, patterns like dissecting, shrinking, disappearing are still essential empirical...

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