Metrics for evaluating representation target achievement in protected area networks

Suitability determining in protected area for wildlife (Case study: Geno protected area)

Introduction: Rangelands constitute almost 52 percent of the country area computed as 164 million ha. The extent of rangelands has been estimated 84 million ha in Iran and they have been classified as good, moderate to poor and poor to very poor ones ranged as almost 10, 42 and 48 percent, respectively. One of the fundamental problems concerning land uses of rangelands is that Rangeland are not...

Planning for Protected Areas Using Spatial and Temporal Metrics

Evaluating the efficacy of zoning designations for protected area management

Protected areas worldwide are facing increasing pressures to co-manage human development and biodiversity conservation. One strategy for managing multiple uses within and around protected areas is zoning, an approach in which spatial boundaries are drawn to distinguish areas with varying degrees of allowable human impacts. However, zoning designations are rarely evaluated for their efficacy usi...

Identify criteria and metrics for evaluating VAT policy

Because VAT is collected from different stages of production and can cover all goods and services, it has a broad tax base and generates a lot of revenue for the government. In fact, the VAT system is a kind of tax restructuring that is mostly to increase revenues and equip financial resources to finance government expenditures. The introduction of value added tax in recent years has been one o...

A New Dictionary Construction Method in Sparse Representation Techniques for Target Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery

Hyperspectral data in Remote Sensing which have been gathered with efficient spectral resolution (about 10 nanometer) contain a plethora of spectral bands (roughly 200 bands). Since precious information about the spectral features of target materials can be extracted from these data, they have been used exclusively in hyperspectral target detection. One of the problem associated with the detect...