The visual impact of crop shelters in the rural landscape is paramount importance for sustainability planning. It utmost to protect a beautiful characterized by archaeological sites and natural ecosystems but it also fundamental preserve key economy based on agriculture. To there need understand its units assess feasibility application character assessment (LCA) at local scale adaptation higher...

Adverse changes in rangeland vegetation can be considered as one of the criteria for land degradation. Some of these changes can be evaluated through monitoring the spatial changes of landscape parameters. This study aimed to investigate the landscape changes in Kezab rangelands of Yazd province, central Iran. Landsat satellite images of 1990, 2002, and 2013, and landscape metrics including Tot...

Classified thematic maps based on remote sensing data are usually used to derive Landscape Pattern Index (LPI). However, the classification error can be propagated into the LPIs calculation, while it is usually ignored in the previous literatures. Correctly estimating the LPI error is vital for reliable landscape analysis; however, the widely accepted accuracy assessment method without consider...

Issues relating to the destructive phenomena that can damage people and goods have returned to the centre of debate in Italy with the increase in catastrophic episodes in recent years in a country which is highly vulnerable to hydrological risk. Environmental factors and geological and geomorphological territorial characteristics play an important role in determining the level of vulnerability ...

The ecological protection and sustainable development of Urumqi have become an important part the high-quality growth urban agglomeration on northern slope Tianshan Mountain. Under impacts multi-source factors, landscape pattern has changed due to it being in a fragile eco-environment, so network is desperately needed enhance security patterns. Taking city as study area, risk evaluation model m...