The NASA/JPL airborne SAR (AIRSAR) system operates in the fully polarimetric mode at P-, Land C-band simultaneously or in the interferometric mode in both Land C-band simultaneously. The system became operational in late 1987 and flew its first mission aboard a DC-8 aircraft operated by NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Since then, the AIRSAR has flown missions every yea...

A new container terminal is currently constructed in South Korea in order to handle ever increasing goods transported. The proposed terminal site is partially occupied by a rock mountain that should be removed to provide necessary aggregates and eventually a flat land. A total of 23 million cubic meters of rocks are to be excavated from this mountain, and the port authority wants to get it done...

State wide variant topographic features in North Carolina attract the hydro-climatologist. There is none modeling study found that predict future Land Cover Land Use (LCLU) change for whole North Carolina. In this study, satellite-derived land cover maps of year 1992, 2001 and 2006 of North Carolina were integrated within the framework of the Markov-Cellular Automata (Markov-CA) model which com...

Gently sloping surfaces for settlement are scarce in high mountains ranges and they are commonly related to distal parts of alluvial fans where floods hazards can be expected. To understanding the influence of external factors, such as climatic variability and land uses, on the alluvial fan accretion and flooding processes, sedimentology and pollen analysis from local site provide valuable data...

Documenting patterns of land use and land-cover change in mountain resort development (MRD) is important for understanding the effects of these changes of fragile mountain environments. High-spatial-resolution imagery can be useful for mapping MRD, but lack of a long-term record of such imagery hampers our ability to analyze temporal patterns. We use the results from classification of high-spat...

the mountains as the other natural environment are the main purposes for nature based tourism such as sport tourism and have a finite capacity for recreation development which differs from one place to another and naturally causes different type of tourism’s development. therefore land suitability is very important before tourism planning. some charactristics like geomorphological, biological a...

Nepal, with an area of 147,181 square kilometers (km), is a land of enormous geographical diversity. The country has three main geographical/ecological regions: the terai region, the hill region and the mountain region, which cover 23.1 percent, 41.7 percent, and 35.2 percent of the total area, respectively. Each ecological region is a narrow strip of land stretching from east to west. These th...

This article focuses on issues of land tenure to retrace the history how Hawai‘i’s Mauna Kea volcano was ‘discovered’ by and for astronomers. In aftermath 1959 accession US statehood, an inhospitable tract suddenly heralded as being ‘probably best site in world’ observation Moon, planets stars. Political academic institutions moved decisively secure exclusive rights over started market it off-i...