Using Land Cover Data to Characterize Living Environments of Geocoded Addresses: Estes et al. Respond

Methodologic Issues in Using Land Cover Data to Characterize Living Environments of Geocoded Addresses

Use of Remotely Sensed Data to Evaluate the Relationship between Living Environment and Blood Pressure

BACKGROUND Urbanization has been correlated with hypertension (HTN) in developing countries undergoing rapid economic and environmental transitions. OBJECTIVES We examined the relationships among living environment (urban, suburban, and rural), day/night land surface temperatures (LST), and blood pressure in selected regions from the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (RE...

Environmental Public Health Applications Using Remotely Sensed Data.

We describe a remote sensing and GIS-based study that has three objectives: (1) characterize fine particulate matter (PM2.5), insolation and land surface temperature using NASA satellite observations, EPA ground-level monitor data and North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) data products on a national scale; (2) link these data with public health data from the REasons for Geographi...

The effect of Urban Development on Watershed Hydrological Properties (case study: Tajrish Watershed)

The effect of Urban Development on Watershed Hydrological Properties (case study: Tajrish Watershed) Throughout the human history, societies and rivers have been closely linked, so that the human civilization began from the riverside (Stevaux et al. 2009 (. The quantitative and qualitative characteristic of river is vulnerable to land-use changes (Kang et al. 2010). Natural and urban watershed...

Using remote sensing data and GIS to evaluate air pollution and their relationship with land cover and land use in Baghdad City

The research used the satellite image (Landsat 7 ETM ) within the thermal infrared sixth band (TIR6) and geographic information system (GIS) to determine the air pollution and its relationship with the land cover (LC) and land use (LU) of Baghdad city. Concentration of total suspended particles (TSP), lead (Pb), carbon oxides (CO, CO2), and sulphur dioxide (SO2) were obtained from 22 ground mea...