As a local environmental issue with global importance, land use/land cover change (LUCC) has always been one of the key issues in geography and environmental studies with the expansion of regional case studies. While most of LUCC studies in China have focused on urban land use change, meanwhile, compared with the rapid change of urban land use in the coastal areas of eastern China, slow but dis...

The use of neural networks to classify land-cover from remote sensing imagery relies on the ability to determine a winner from the candidate land-cover types based on the imagery information available. In the case of a “winnertakes-all” scenario, this does not allow us a measure of how much the prediction of each pixel’s land-cover can be trusted. We present a three-stage method where only winn...

Landownership is an important form of wealth, especially in a natural-resource dependent region such as the Black Belt of Alabama. We examine the connection between property ownership, land cover, and the wellbeing of communities in Macon County, Alabama. This study is an exploratory application of geographic information systems to integrate information from property tax assessment records, lan...

The standardization of data element in land and resources management is an important component of the standardization of information technology in the field. It’s an essential method to guarantee the interconnection, intercommunication and interoperability, and achieve the information sharing. This study is a case study on Beijing Municipal Land and Resources Management, especially cadastral ma...

This study examines the temporal and spatial changes in land use as aconsequence of rapid urban development in the city of Beijing. Using a combination oftechniques of remote sensing and GIS, the study identifies a substantial loss of plaindryland and a phenomenal expansion of urban construction land over the recent decade.Geographically, there is a clear shifting of urban construction land fro...

Diffuse phosphorus (P) export from biosolids application to agricult­ ural land above specified soil P thresholds or incidental losses of nutrients applied as manure or fertilizers during high risk periods, may be linked to deteriorating surface or groundwater quality. However, oui research suggests that not all land has an equal risk of contributing diffuse contaminants to receiving waters, ei...

The original surveying tools and methods are backward and low efficient and they will also generate lots of errors in the National secondary land surveying. MapSUV rural land surveying palm mapping system (MapSUV palm mapping system) based on 3S techniques, combines MapGIS rural land surveying database management system. It supports the spatial location information collection and attributes dat...

-Land use classification is an important part of many remote-sensing applications. A lot of research has gone into the application of classifiers to remote-sensing images. Multi-spectral satellite imagery is an economical, precise and appropriate method of obtaining information on land use and land cover. In this paper, we have proposed an efficient technique for classifying the multispectral s...

The Cerro Grande/Los Alamos forest fire devastated over 43,000 acres (17,500 ha) of forested land, and destroyed over 200 structures in the town of Los Alamos and the adjoining Los Alamos National Laboratory. The need to measure the continuing impact of the fire on the local environment has led to the application of a number of remote sensing technologies. During and after the fire, remote-sens...

suitability analysis is a prerequisite for sustainable agricultural production and it involves evaluation of the environmental parameters. the development and creation of appropriate points for this land use without considering environmental capability will result in the appearance of several ecological, economic, and social problems. the multi-criteria decision making (mcdm) models were used f...