On Creating New Values in Rural Areas through Urban-rural Mutual Interactions.

Agricultural Development with Particular Emphasis on Rural-Urban Mutual Relationships and Interactions Case study: Azerbaijan Province

The present study deals with agricultural development in rural areas as a phenomenon related to urban growth. This study believes in this hypothesis that urban growth per say would motivate agricultural activities in surrounding rural areas .It aims to investigate the level of agricultural development resulted from rural-urban mutual relationships and interactions. The study area is composed...

Childhood Asthma in Rural-Urban Areas

Electricity Consumption in Rural vs . Urban Areas

Average Winter electricity consumption for rural residents in Utah is significantly greater than for those living in urban areas. Based on data from a 1980 survey of Utah residents, this rural-urban consumption differential was investigated using multiple regression analysis. It was determined that the stock of electricity-using devices, climate, and demographic characteristics were the most im...

Road Extraction in Rural and Urban Areas

An approach for automatic road extraction from digital aerial imagery is presented. The extraction is based on a semantic model for roads. The images are divided into different so-called “global contexts”: rural, forest, and urban. Different parts of the road model and different strategies are used in the different global contexts. In rural areas, a multi-scale approach is employed to find init...

Creating Cadastral Maps in Rural and Urban Areas of Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery

Nowadays, remotely sensed images are used for various purposes in different applications. One of them is the cadastral application using high resolution satellite imagery. In this context, a comparison of extraction results from these images and existing vector data is the most important issue. The goal here is to show the advantages and disadvantages of the QuickBird and IKONOS imagery for mak...