0099-1112/07/7309–1029/$3.00/0 © 2007 American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Abstract This study established spectral matching techniques (SMTs) to determine land-use and land-cover (LULC) and irrigated area classes from historical time-series (HTS-LULC) AVHRR 0.1-degree pathfinder satellite sensor data. The approach for HTS-LULC mapping and characterization was to develop “targ...

INTRODUCTION Analyzing trends of land use systems and the changes occurred overtime is an effective way of assessing the impacts of land use/land cover (LULC) changes on ecosystem function. It provides important insights for understanding the spatial patterns of land use processes. The rangelands of southern Ethiopia are adversely affected by increased human population pressure, encroachment of...

introduction generally speaking, this article offers a critical analysis of the land tenure systems in iran with an emphasis on land tenure system in kurdistan and prior to the land reform in 1962. the objective of this article is to address the contradictory narratives that have taken shape regarding the geographical boundaries of boneh in iran. this is an attempt to offer a new and fundamenta...

Since shape metrics emerged in the landscape ecology as a new tool for quantitative evaluation of a landscape, it has become easier for geocomputation methods in GIS to adopt theirs principles. Nevertheless, there are still different scientific opinions about the usefulness of shape metrics. The paper describes shape metrics application for Corine Land Cover 1990, 2000 and 2006 areas (CLC) anal...

A simple method that incorporates coupling between bath and system and between individual bath modes is proposed. In Ž . the new locally propagating gaussian LPG approximation, the bath is modeled by Gaussians at each system site that propagate in time. Each site couples to others by the overlap of their Gaussians. In a test case with weak but non-negligible coupling, LPG is nearly as rapid as ...

We present some techniques for planning in temporal domains specified with the recent standard languange PDDL2.1. These techniques are implemented in LPG, a fully-automated system that took part in the third International Planning Competition (Toulouse, 2002) showing excellent performance. The planner is based on a stochastic local search method and on a graph-based representation called “Tempo...

This paper provides a review of shape analysis methods. Shape analysis methods play an important role in systems for object recognition, matching, registration, and analysis. Research in shape analysis has been motivated, in part, by studies of human visual form perception systems. Several theories of visual form perception are brie y mentioned. Shape analysis methods are classi ed into several...