a Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada b NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, Biospheric Sciences Branch Code 618, Bld 33, #G310, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA c College of Forestry, Oregon State University, 231 Peavy Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA d Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, 506 West Bur...

Segmentation and classification of satellite imagery are a challenging problem due to the fact that it is not feasible to execute this task on a pixel-by-pixel basis.This paper proposes an efficient image classification technique for satellite images with the aid of KFCM and artificial neural network. The proposed classification technique is made of four phases namely, pre-processing, fragmenta...

Given the scarcity of land resources in most Chinese cities, the fragmentation of construction land use is a greater constraint than expansion for urban sustainability. Therefore, there is an urgent need to quantify the fragmentation level of construction land use for planning and managing practices. This study focuses on residential land use, which is one of the most important types of constru...

Home ranges have long been studied in animal ecology. Core areas may be used at a greater proportion than the rest of home range, implying core contains dependable resources. The Pacific fisher (Pekania pennanti (Erxleben, 1777)) is rare mesocarnivore occupying small area Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, USA. Once statewide, fishers declined 1900s due to trapping, habitat fragmentation, and...

An increased ability to analyze landscapes in a spatial manner through the use of remote sensing leads to improved capabilities for quantifying human-induced forest fragmentation. Developments of spatially explicit methods in landscape analyses are emerging. In this paper, the image delineation software program eCognition and the spatial pattern analysis program FRAGSTATS were used to quantify ...

may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. 1 INTRODUCTION Development in rural-urban fringe communities is increasing with the potential to damage healthy ecosystems and endanger the long-term persistence of resident flora and fauna Environmental impacts of development include loss, degradat...

to be sure, all the industries try to be involved in globalization with a constant trend to find out ways to increase productivity across different functions within an organization to maintain competitive advantage world. pharmaceutical industries are not exceptional and further are based on fragmentation. so these kind of companies need to cope with several barriers such as silo mentality that...

A GIS compiled by the Departmental Government of Santa Cruz, Bolivia offers data that may help to resolve some competing theories of tropical deforestation. The GIS contains many attributes relating to land use at two points in time, 1989 and 1994, and allow us to address questions like: • What has been the impact of past road construction on deforestation and land use? • What impacts might be ...

integrated urban management means adopting a holistic approach to urban management and designing appropriate mechanisms for this approach’s requirements in practice. the integration of the urban activities brings together organizational , structural and institutional activities and action in which the urban development is supported. in order to achieve integration, it is essential to identify f...

Rural roads promote economic development, but they also facilitate deforestation. To explore this tradeoff, this article develops a spatially explicit model of land use and estimates probabilities of alternative land uses as a function of land characteristics and distance to market using a multinomial logit specification of this model. Controls are incorporated for the endogeneity of road place...