Water and soil losses from sloping farmlands potentially contribute to water eutrophication land degradation. However, few studies explored the combined effects of ridge direction width on surface runoff farmlands. Twenty-seven experimental plots (8 m long 4 wide) with nine treatments (three direction: cross ridge, longitudinal oblique ridge; three width: 40, 60, 80 cm) were adopted under natur...

It has become clear that state-owned protected areas (PAs) are insufficient in preserving the world’s spatially heterogenous biodiversity. Private land conservation could contribute significantly to national goals, without further burdening state resources. In South Africa, legislation been introduced incentivise private landowners biodiversity goals. this study, we used camera trap arrays and ...

Background: Presently, the British-American Tobacco Company (BAT) located in Ibadan, Oyo State is the only tobacco producing company in Nigeria accounting for about nine different brands of cigarette tobacco smoked in the country. The tobacco leaves are produced from some farmlands located in Oke-Ogun area of Ibadan where special fertilizers are used for the growing of the tobacco leav...

This paper describes a new second-generation-type lossy image compression scheme using wavelets for aerial ortho images. For map applications where some losses are allowed, aerial ortho images present a possibility of having a very high compression ratio, because they are natural images with many uniform (coherent) subregions. However classical compression schemes such as the joint-photograph e...

The Niger Delta is dying. Petrobusiness activities have caused severe environmental damage and climate change in its communities thus leading to massive destruction of farmlands, wild and marine lives. This has not been without dire social consequences on local communities of the Niger Delta which are doubly impoverished with attendant increase in abuse occasioned by struggle for survival. This...

The problem of abandoned land from mining activities is aggravated since the coal boom. Activities of excavating coal exscind natural vegetation and deposit stone on the natural land that modified the natural land contribute to waste farmlands. This paper presents the comparableness of SVMs method to artificial neural networks in the outlier detection problem of high dimensions. Experiments per...

ZONE OF TENSION Historically, landscapes graded from urban centers to scattered villages, to a diverse mosaic of farmlands and natural areas (Figure 1). This gradient allowed both a visual and physical transition while maintaining ecologic, economic, and social connections within the larger landscape. Conflicts between urban and rural residents were minimal, in part due to the limited interface...