The use of unmanned aerial vehicles with multiple onboard sensors has grown significantly in tasks involving terrain coverage such as environmental and civil monitoring, disaster management, forest fire fighting. Many these require a quick early response, which makes maximizing the land covered from flight path challenging objective, especially when area to be monitored is irregular, large incl...

We developed new measures of structural complexity using single point terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) clouds. These metrics are depth, openness, and isovist. Depth is a three-dimensional, radial measure the visible distance in all directions from plot center. Openness percent scan pulses near-omnidirectional view without return. Isovists measurement area location, quantified viewshed within fo...

Protected areas worldwide receive billions of visitors annually. The positive impact nature on health and wellbeing, in addition to providing opportunities for cultural activities such as recreation aesthetic appreciation, is well documented. Management reduce negative impacts biodiversity conservation aims whilst amenities access important. Understanding environmental awareness their on-site s...

This paper discusses using Geographical Information Systems to predict broadband wireless coverage and channel characteristics in the bands between 2.4 and 30 GHz. It presents system layout software that integrates demographic, marketing, and land-use data with digital elevation models (DEM) and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) measurements and compares predicted coverage with measurements a...

The analysis of visibility between two points on the earth’s terrain is a common use of GIS software. Most commercial GIS software packages include the ability to generate a viewshed, or a map of terrain surrounding a particular location that would be visible to an observer. Viewsheds are often generated using “bare-earth” Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) derived from the process of photogrammet...

v1.2, June 21, 2004 While experiential qualities of rectangular architectural spaces can be effectively predicted from properties like room proportions or area (Franz, von der Heyde, & Bülthoff, 2003), these factors from normative architectural knowledge obviously cannot be directly transfered on open-plan indoor spaces. Phenomenologically as well as in empirical aesthetics, nontrivial forms ar...

This research takes Cuiwei Village located in Qianshan District of Zhuhai City as an example. The village is investigated and analyzed through field research, the street scale, spatial structure, functional characteristics streets, internal commercial distribution forms, functions Historic Block are studied analyzed. Based on convex space analysis method line sight syntax theory, with help Dept...

The societal and environmental impacts of mining activity are the focus of greater interest today than ever before. Many emerging economies are in the process of developing environmental policies for the first time. These new policies will surely affect how mining operations are expected to perform: producing the raw material needed to drive the economy at the lowest possible cost becomes as im...

Abstract Placelessness and the loss of a place’s identity, along travel corridors, can generate few problems like fatigue in driving, difficulties wayfinding limit people from exploring new places architectural buildings. The sense familiarity similarity views roadways are often overlooked, which result development monotonous mundane highways, leading to place identity. There is an imperative n...

Propagule pressure and habitat characteristics are important factors used to predict the distribution of invasive alien species. For species exhibiting strong propagule pressure because of human-mediated introduction of species, indicators of introduction potential must represent the behavioral characteristics of humans. This study examined 64 agricultural ponds to assess the visibility of pond...