PTK is a new open-source tool for all complex digital investigations. It represents an alternative to the well-known but now obsolete front-end Autopsy Forensic Browser. This latter tool has a number of inadequacies taking the form of a cumbersome user interface, complicated case and evidence management, and a non-interactive timeline that is difficult to consult. A number of important function...

From the moment that a writer conceives an idea which he desires to communicate to his fellow men, sizable stumbling blocks are strewn in the path of the future translator. For the ability to shape one’s thought clearly, or even completely, is not granted to many; rarer still is the gift of expressing the thought— precisely, concisely, unambiguously—in the form of words. There is no guarantee, ...

This research simulates the urban growth and therefore the landscape change of a mountain city of Chongqing, China through a Cellular Automata (CA) based model of SLEUTH. The fundamental data were four Landsat TM images of 1978, 1988, 1993, and 2001 which were utilized for generating maps of land use, road networks, and urbanized area. Three alternative development scenarios, including business...

Concept lattices assist human understanding in three ways: firstly, by collecting formal concepts that contain maximal sets of objects with shared attributes; secondly, the relatedness of concepts is revealed by providing a hierarchy of formal concepts in the information space. Finally, the concept lattice (drawn as a line diagram) reveals inferences that can automatically derive association ru...

Spatial models of urban growth have the ability to play an important role in the planning process; if not in aiding in policy decisions, then in processes such as visioning, storytelling, and scenario evaluation. One question that has not adequately been addressed is to what degree does disaggregating land use types from urban/non-urban categories add to these simulations? This paper aims to an...

Monitoring and simulating urban sprawl and its effects on land-use patterns andhydrological processes in urbanized watersheds are essential in land-use and waterresourceplanning and management. This study applies a novel framework to the urbangrowth model Slope, Land use, Excluded land, Urban extent, Transportation, andHillshading (SLEUTH) and land-use change with the Conversion of Land use and...

In Urban Planning (UP), it is necessary to take under serious consideration the inhibitors of spread a settlement in specific direction. This means that all those parameters for which problems may arise future should be considered. Among these are geo-hazards, such as floods, landslides, mud movement, etc. study deals with UP taking into account possibility widespread flooding expansion areas. ...

Regional planners and decision makers are teaming up with data providers and urban growth modelers in the ongoing effort to map historic extents of urbanization, forecast future extents, and predict impacts on the local environment. Spatial data layers that are nationally consistent across space and time are valuable input variables for some predictive models, but can be of limited use because ...