Soil is a vital parameter for planting design in urban green spaces especially in adverse climate conditions. In this study, the utilization of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) in surveying land suitability for urban green space from measured criteria like suitability indices, including physical (i.e. clay, silt, sand, bulk density, penetration resistance), chemical (i.e. electrical conductivit...

This paper presents heat stress Standard ISO 7243, which is based upon the wet bulb globe temperature index (WBGT), and considers its suitability for use worldwide. The origins of the WBGT index are considered and how it is used in ISO 7243 and across the world as a simple index for monitoring and assessing hot environments. The standard (and index) has validity, reliability and usability. It i...

The water quality of Pauri District of Uttarakhand, India has been assessed during preand postmonsoon seasons to express the suitability of water for drinking purposes. The values of turbidity and iron exceed the permissible limit prescribed by Indian Standards for drinking purpose. Some sites were also contaminated with large number of total and fecal coliform bacteria. Piper diagrams exhibit ...

Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) whitmani s.l.is the main vector of cutaneous leishmaniasis in state of Mato Grosso, but little is known about environmental determinants of its spatial distribution on a regional scale. Entomologic surveys of this sand fly species, conducted between 1996 and 2001 in 41 state municipalities, were used to investigate the relationships between environmental factors and the pr...

The integration of conservation area designs for aquatic and terrestrial species has been a challenge for planners. The difficulties of crafting a single suitability index which reflects the landscape condition relative to all species, terrestrial and aquatic, and choosing assessment units appropriate for both realms, have made integration especially problematic. Here I will introduce a new tec...

water resources suitability is one of the most important factors to sustainabilityutilization of natural potential by rangeland grazing suitability. to determine this factor inshort time, low cost and high accuracy are most challenges of experts and ranchers. usingsuitable technique for this subject can be sustainable utilization comprising from rangelandecosystems according to its degradation ...

BACKGROUND Schistosomiasis is the most widespread water-based disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Transmission is governed by the spatial distribution of specific freshwater snails that act as intermediate hosts and human water contact patterns. Remote sensing data have been utilized for spatially explicit risk profiling of schistosomiasis. We investigated the potential of remote sensing to characte...

Fuzzy clustering is a data analysis technique that, when applied to a set of heterogeneous items, identifies homogenous subgroups as defined by a given model or measure of similarity in fuzzy environment. Moreover, fuzzy clustering methodology has been developed and used in variety of areas like biology, computer science, engineering, medicine etc. In this paper, fuzzy cluster model is develope...