Spatial Planning as a Tool for Effective Nature Conservation: A Conceptual Framework for Turkey’s Spatial Planning System

Optimal Trajectory Planning of a Mobile Robot with Spatial Manipulator For Spatial Obstacle Avoidance

Mobile robots that consist of a mobile platform with one or many manipulators mounted on it are of great interest in a number of applications. Combination of platform and manipulator causes robot operates in extended work space. The analysis of these systems includes kinematics redundancy that makes more complicated problem. However, it gives more feasibility to robotic systems because of the e...

Crowdsourcing as a Tool for Knowledge Acquisition in Spatial Planning

The term “crowdsourcing” was initially introduced by Howe in his article “The Rise of Crowdsourcing” [1]. During the last few years, crowdsourcing has become popular among companies, institutions and universities, as a crowd-centered modern “tool” for problem solving. Crowdsourcing is mainly based on the idea of an open-call publication of a problem, requesting the response of the crowd for rea...

Spatial planning as a tool for decreasing nitrogen loads in nature areas

Deposition of nitrogen forms one of the largest threats to the vitality and biodiversity of Dutch nature areas. Of the two nitrogen compounds contributing to the total nitrogen deposition, Dutch sources of reduced nitrogen are estimated to contribute 47% to the total nitrogen deposition, whereas for oxidised nitrogen this is only 15%. For Dutch policy, it is therefore most effective to decrease...

A Spatial Decision Support System for Planning

Organizations and individuals are calling for the universal availability of broadband as a national imperative by 2010. Although the United States has the requisite cross-continental fiber-optic backbone infrastructure in place, only 2% to 5% of that nationwide network is used today. This is because of the prohibitive cost necessary to extend the backbone to many small businesses and homes, eve...

Planning for Protected Areas Using Spatial and Temporal Metrics