Sensornet nodes observe physical phenomena, yielding data labelled with their geographic position. Geographic context can be exploited in packet routing to minimise energy consumption, provided that the application does not need to route packets to uniquely identified nodes. The latter may be necessary for a minority of packets concerning system management and sensor tasking. We present a hybri...

1FWO Flanders Research Foundation, Geography Department, Ghent University, Belgium 2Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 3Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China 4Plant Biology Department, Unit of Botany, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 5Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University ...

Using MODIS derived fPAR with ground based flux tower measurements to derive the light use efficiency for two Canadian peatlands J. Connolly, N. T. Roulet, J. W. Seaquist, N. M. Holden, P. M. Lafleur, E. R. Humphreys, B. W. Heumann, and S. M. Ward Biosystems Engineering, UCD School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Department of Geo...

This document summarizes the master’s degree thesis that was presented by the author in May 1989 to the Section of Biogeography of the Department of Geography of Moscow State University. The thesis was awarded the highest possible mark and on the basis of the thesis along with other curriculum results, the author was granted a master degree with honours in physical geography. This document refl...

A physical geographers’ scope of practice is not defined by any regulatory or academic organization, so perception of the potential contribution of physical geography to sustainability research has been nebulous or informal, at best. In order to understand what physical geographers can do to enhance sustainability, this paper describes a systematic review of peer-reviewed research on sustainabi...

Gernot Paulus, Karl-Heinrich Anders, Melanie Regenfelder, Bernhard Kosar, Alexsandra Rieger, Klaus Michor, Wolfgang Werth, Christoph Ungermanns, Hermann Sterner, Gerhard Hohenwarter, Christian Stefan, Rainer Gaggl, Heinz Stanek, Kurt Wagner, Markus Eisl, Anthony Fillipi, Inci Güneralp und André Skupin FH Kärnten – Geoinformation und Umwelttechnologien, Villach · [email protected] FH Kärnten – Syst...

The emergence of computational social science has had a transformative influence on the geographical sciences, integrating diverse themes of scholarship and allying it with the pursuit of grand challenges in the physical, natural, and life sciences. Geography has benefitted from many of these developments and has, in turn, catalyzed significant advances and innovation in computational social sc...

I process satellite-generated data on terrain elevation and presence of water bodies to precisely estimate the amount of developable land in U.S. metropolitan areas. The data show that residential development is effectively curtailed by the presence of steep-sloped terrain. I also find that most areas in which housing supply is regarded as inelastic are severely land-constrained by their geogra...

The potential and the powerful uses of concept maps as a learning tool is well exhibited in an inter-disciplinary subject like Geography, where integration of progressively developed concepts, incorporation of field experiences and data, and integration of location-specific applications of learned concepts lead to a holistic understanding of otherwise potentially segregated geographic processes...