owing to the vital effects of future land use changes, it is necessary to predict land use growth pattern before any decision making by the authorities and decision makers. purpose of this research is to model land use change of kohmare scorch plain of shiraz province using ordinary least squares regression (ols) for pre-processing variables and modeling using neural networks. to perform this m...

Land Use patterns reflect the nature of economic activity as well as natural resources of a country. The evaluation and assessment of land uses leads to diagnose the patterns of resources of a country which can further be developed in order to gain and maintain self sufficiency in the resources needed for human and economic development. The monitoring of land use change is highly difficult and ...

Land use may be regarded as one of the most important factors affecting theenvironment with respect to human activities. So far, destroying the rangelands andchanging them into the waste lands and poor rangelands has been proposed as the mostsignificant variations of land use done by human beings. This paper has been conducted toevaluate the variations of vegetation percentage and land uses in ...

At a time when policy makers want to change the behaviour of citizens to tackle a broad range of social problems, such as climate change, excessive drinking, obesity and crime, a promising new policy approach has appeared that seems capable of escaping the liberal reservations typically associated with all forms of regulatory action. After having relied on the assumption that governments can on...

introduction: land use in the overall concept is said to be the type of using land in the current situation which contains all users in different sectors of agriculture, natural resources and the industry. protecting land use is as follows: “prevent the change of application of certain lands by their owners, if their change has negative natural, economic, political, cultural, or scientific effe...

this research was conducted to study the effect of land use change on some physical fractionation component of organic matter and some of its quality factors. therefore, two uncultivated and cultivated (such as rotational cropping and sugarcane) were selected in khuzestan province. disturbed and undisturbed soils were sampled from 0-30 and 30-60 cm depths. total n, oc, dispersible clay (dc), ag...

Nutrition ecology is an interdisciplinary scientific discipline that encompasses the entire nutrition system, with special consideration of the effects of nutrition on health, the environment, society, and the economy. Nutrition ecology involves all components of the food chain, including production, harvesting, preservation, storage, transport, processing, packaging, trade, distribution, prepa...

In this paper, we present an object detection and tracking algorithm for low-frame-rate applications. We extend the standard mean-shift technique such that is is not limited within a single kernel but uses multiple kernels centered around high motion areas obtained by change detection. We also improve the convergence properties of the mean-shift by integrating two additional likelihood terms us...

Abstract Decadal changes in land use/land cover for Balachaur watershed in Nawanshahar district, Punjab, India were studied using black and white aerial photographs for March 1984 on approximately 1:20,000 scale and multidate geocoded false colour composites (FCC) of IRS-1D LISS-III on 1:50,000 scale for March 2002, September 2002, and May 2003 and interpreted visually to prepare land use/land...