Conversion of rangelands into cultivated land is one of the main challenges affecting the management of rangelands in Ethiopia. In order to inform policy makers about trends in land-use conversion, this study examined the drivers, trends, and impacts of land conversions in five locations selected in the Borana rangelands of Southern Ethiopia. This study integrated survey interviews from agro-pa...

Land, a non-renewable resource, is central to all primary production systems. The geospatial technology of Remote Sensing and GIS holds the potential for timely and cost – effective assessment of natural resources. The techniques have been used extensively in the tropics for generating valuable information about various surface features of the earth. Therefore, we have used Remote Sensing and G...

Soil microorganisms play vital roles in recovering and maintaining the health of ecosystems, particularly in fragile Karst ecosystems that are easily degraded after cultivation. We investigated the composition and diversity of soil bacterial communities, based on RFLP and 16S rDNA sequencing, in a cropland, a naturally revegetated land with former cultivation disturbance and a primeval forest i...

The green tract of land is one of the significant factors for urban planning and urban management to improve and conserve the urban environment. Planning the green tracts is often carried out as a part of land use strategy based on relation to neighborhood, their scale, functions, and locational condition. On the other hand, a vegetation-covered area is a considerable focus of investigation for...

optimization of land allocation in golestan province for planting agricultural crops using compromise mathematical programming introduction: rational planning and optimization of agriculture are essential because of water and land constraints, the need to increase economic profit and to reduce the negative impacts of fertilizers and pesticides. to this end, decision-makers and planners need to ...

Vegetation species maps are useful for forestry managements and environmental ecological study. From the forestry management, broad and conifer leaf forest should be mapped. In addition to them, land-cover mapping data with high resolution is needed as validation data sets for low resolution’s land-cover mapping results. SGLI sensor on board GCOM-C satellite, which will be launched in 2014, has...