The paper reports the recent progress in the radiative transfer model (RTM) development, which serves as the observation operator of a Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS), and its validation at two Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) stations with different weather and land cover conditions: Wenjiang station of humid and cropped field and Gaize station of arid and bare soil field. In situ observed ...

The Itai-Itai disease case is one of four major pollution-related lawsuits occurring in Japan after World War H. This paper, which is based on investigations of the pollution source, the Kamioka mine, considers (1) the history of the disturbances to the environment caused by the Kamioka mine; (2) the Itai-Itai disease suit; (3) the pollution nprevention measures and methods of the Kamioka mine ...

I Williamson J Wallace Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration Department of Geomatics The University of Melbourne Victoria Australia 3010 [email protected] [email protected] Land Administration Systems (LAS) are institutional frameworks complicated by the tasks they must perform, by national cultural, political and judicial settings, and by technology. This pa...

Does the existence of formal title to land and real estate matter for the distribution of wealth? This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic impact of land and real estate administration systems across countries. This paper argues that a functioning credit market for secured credit is necessary to realize the full benefits of legal title to private real estate. This paper also ...

In this paper, aimed as a background for further research, the author examines the effect of urbanisation on housing for the low income earners in Kampala. The author discusses Kampala’s housing environment by looking at low-income earners’ access to housing in the city under conditions of rapid population rise, growing housing demand, rising land prices and growing poverty. Findings show that ...

We consider the use of power law distributions P (x) j x j ?1? (1 < 2) for lattice gas automata (LGA). (a) We implement the distribution P (`) for particle displacements with length j ` j in a LGA and we investigate the resulting diiusive transport. We show that anomalous diiusion (var(j ` j) t 2==) cannot be observed, but that normal diiusion (h` 2 i Dt) can be tuned so that the diiusion coeec...

Property boundaries have a significant importance in cadaster as they define the legal extent of ownership rights. Among 3D data models, Industry Foundation Class (IFC) provides potential capabilities for modelling property environment. In some jurisdictions, such Victoria, Australia, are assigned to faces building elements which modelled solids IFC. order retrieve these boundaries, boundary id...

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Motorised mobility has increased in a significant way in last years in European cities, and this has brought too much congestion in urban areas, which has deteriorated city centres’ liveable conditions. For that reason, there is a need of effective and flexible transport systems in order to improve this situation in favour of public transport. The investment on design and innovation of competit...

* Corresponding author address: Yubao Liu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, P. O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000. Phone: (303) 497-8211 Email: [email protected]