Smartphone-based visual assessment of vegetation cover is a promising, fast, and repeatable approach that allows land managers to compare measurements on their farm with other farms. This study determined the influence smartphone device green several crops. The hypothesis was different smartphones would provide similar (reflectance) for management purposes (i.e., <10% difference). Forty fields ...

Optical sensors have grown in popularity for estimating plant health, and they form the basis of midseason yield estimations nitrogen (N) fertilizer recommendations, such as Oklahoma State University (OSU) fertilization optimization algorithm (NFOA). That uses measurements normalized difference vegetative index (NDVI), yet not all producers access to required make these measurements. In contras...

The important roles played by green spaces are social, economic, cultural and environmental aspects of sustainable development. Indian urban areas developing at a very fast pace; simultaneously there is rapid growth in population too, which impacts the ratio demand supply basic services resulting to sustainability issues. This influences interfaces between urbanization, environment, as surround...

Impacts of livestock grazing in arid and semiarid environments are often concentrated in and around wetlands where animals congregate for water, cooler temperatures, and green forage. We assessed the impacts of winter-spring (November-May) cattle grazing on marsh vegetation cover and occupancy of a highly secretive marsh bird that relies on dense vegetation cover, the California Black Rail (Lat...

Cover crops act as green manure adding organic matter to agricultural-soils. For legume green manures to be an effective nitrogen (N) source for organic farming systems, their N release must be in synchrony with crop N demand. The objectives of this study were 1) determine the decomposition rates of three common cover crops (white clover, (Trifolium repens,L) red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) ...

Setting Standards for Green Schools in Iran H. Meybodi A. Laahijaaniyaan, Ph.D. S.M. Shobeyri, Ph.D. S.A. Joezi, Ph.D. R. Azizinejaad, Ph.D. Given the numerous environmental threats brought about by human activities, it is essential that school children be taught the values of environmental protection in order to make the continuity of life possible. Hence, green schools hav...

15. Supplementary Notes Supported by a Grant From the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program 16. Abstract In this research, we studied green extension of a two-phased vehicle−actuated signal at an isolated intersection between two one-way streets. The green phase is extended by a preset time interval, referred to as critical gap, from the time of a vehicle...

Corporate sustainability and sustainability management have become a key issues in modern organizations to achieve a balanced and sustainable development. Nowadays IT can support the sustainability behaviors in business processes to improve the sustainability performance in organizations. IT-for-Green is a project that proposes a new generation of Corporate Environmental Management Information ...