The composition of a landscape is a fundamental indicator in land-cover pattern assessments. The objective of this paper was to evaluate a landscape composition indicator called ‘landscape mosaic’ as a framework for interpreting land-cover dynamics over a 9-year period in a 360,000 km study area in the southern United States. The indicator classified a land parcel into one of 19 possible landsc...

Complex scenes such as underground stations and malls are composed of static occlusion structures such as walls, entrances, columns, turnstiles, barriers, etc. Unless this occlusion landscape is made explicit such structures can defeat the process of tracking individuals through the scene. This paper describes a method of generating the probability density functions (PDFs) for the depth of the ...

The Harmony browser for the Hyper-G Web server utilises Hyper-G’s rich data model to provide a number of tightlycoupled, twoand three-dimensional visualisation and navigational facilities. In particulal; the Harmony Information Landscape visualises the hierarchical structure of Hyper-G spaces upon a plane in three-dimensional space. The Harmony Information Landscape has now been extended to dis...

Displaying large-scale 3D vector data in landscape map is very important, as 3D vector data can provide many important information, such as: precise geographic boundaries, areas, 3D text marks, different attributes identity, precise path and many important invisible information in real world (e.g.: underground things) and etc. In this paper, we present a technique that is capable of efficiently...

landscape metrics quantifies structural features of the landscape. one of the advantages of these metrics is a possibility to use them in fast cumulative assessment of the development activities in the environment. in this paper, the cumulative effects of road network expansion on the tree cover of gorgan, kordkuy, aliabad townships in golestan province were investigated. to prepare the require...

logistic regression (lr) was used to model urban growth between the years 1987 and 2001 in gorgan city, north east of iran. three groups of variables including economic-social, land use and biophysical variables were used in the modeling practice. using covariance of the independent variables, distance to administrative and sporting centers plus distance to cities were removed. roc (relative op...

QuickBird satellite images were processed using object-based analysis to map the spatial structure of seagrass in sandy shoal habitat in the southern Baltic Sea. A three-level ecological model of seagrass landscape, composed of meadows, beds and patches/gaps, was implemented in the multi-scale object domain. Image segmentation was performed at different spatial scales. In order to determine rep...

BACKGROUND When modelling infectious diseases, accurately capturing the pattern of dissemination through space is key to providing optimal recommendations for control. Mathematical models of disease spread in livestock, such as for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), have done this by incorporating a transmission kernel which describes the decay in transmission rate with increasing Euclidean distance...