Land use change is fundamentally a product of the interaction of physical land characteristics, economic considerations and agricultural and environmental policies. Researchers are increasingly combining physical and socio-economic spatial data to investigate the drivers of land-use change in relation to policy and economic developments. Focusing on Ireland, this study develops a panel data set...

The replacement of native vegetation for agriculture leads to significant changes in land surface characteristics, such as albedo, surface roughness and canopy resistance. These land surface changes induce changes in the atmospheric boundary layer. It is shown that in Western Australia, this change in surface characteristics and in particular, the albedo, has reduced the occurrence of convectiv...

Rapid economic development has spurred land use change in China since the Chinese government initiated its economic reform in 1978. Although many papers have analyzed the characteristics of land use change, especially cropland conversion to non-agricultural use affected by economic development in the developed regions of China, relatively less attention has been paid to studying the characteris...

Identifying patterns and drivers of regional land use changes is crucial for supporting land management and planning. Doing so for mountain ecosystems in East Asia, such as the So-yang River Basin in South Korea, has until now been a challenge because of extreme social and ecological complexities. Applying the techniques of geographic information systems (GIS) and statistical modeling via multi...

Authors are developing a real-life outdoor finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) acoustic simulation using land cover acoustic characteristics. On Inter-noise 2012 and 2013, the identification method of land surface from airborne hyperspectral imagery was presented. Additionally, the identified surface characteristics are given to finite-difference time-domain outdoor acoustic simulations in a r...

The last review of the modeling of the land mobile satellite channel was done by Karaliopoulos and Pavlidou in 1999. Since then a lot of work has been done to model the land mobile satellite channel. In this paper an up-to-date review of the modeling of the land mobile satellite channel is presented. We look at the various physical characteristics that influence communications in the land mobil...

The accuracy of the Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) data derived from remote sensing images is critical for many applications. Classification error is caused by the interaction of numerous factors, including landscape characteristics, sensor resolution, spectral overlap, preprocessing algorithms, and classification procedures. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impacts of landscape characte...

Overview The integration of land administration processes and the collaboration of land agencies are considered essential for the effective delivery of developable land for housing production. However, in most countries, housing and land management policies are usually split between multiple government agencies. The background literature suggests that the activities of governments’ agencies tha...