New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1994) 18 (1): 69-81 ©New Zealand Ecological Society These two scientific Societies appreciate the opportunity to comment on the important question of sustainable land management for the South Island high country. We recognise that considerable thought has been put into the questions we have been posed. We also recognise that some questions pre-suppose a particula...

Land cover/land use categories are relevant components in land management. Understanding how land cover/land use change over time is necessary to assess the consequences of humans and natural stressors on the earth’s environment and resources. The aim of the study was to map and monitor the spatial and temporal change in land cover/land use for the periods of 1977, 1991 and 2016 and to predict ...

Krueger, C. P., Soares, C. R., Huinca, S. C. M., Leandro, D. and Gonçalves, R. M., 2011. Satellite Positioning on the Coast of the Parana, Brazil. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 64 (Proceedings of the 11th International Coastal Symposium), 1352 – 1356. Szczecin, Poland, ISSN 0749-0208 This paper describes different surveys developed by the Spatial Geodetic Laboratory (LAGE) of the Federal Univ...

Building outlines are needed for various applications like urban planning, 3D city modelling and updating cadaster. Their automatic reconstruction, e.g. from airborne laser scanning data, as regularized shapes is therefore of high relevance. Today’s airborne laser scanning technology can produce dense 3D point clouds with high accuracy, which makes it an eligible data source to reconstruct 2D b...

BIPV (Building Integrated Photovoltaics) integration in urban spaces requires, not only careful technical, but also aesthetic considerations as its visual impact is seen as a kind of environmental effect. To manage this effect, different methods were developed to measure it; however, most existing evaluation methods are either based on subjective speculations and have no continuous criteria sta...

Brazilian intensive production of broiler chickens has stood out as an important livestock activity for the country and its main obstacle is the energy supply for birds’ ambience. Analysis of energy conversion processes based on exergy takes into account the quantity and quality of transformed energy. This concept can be applied to the production chain of broiler chickens, contributing to deter...

In the context of real estate, land is defined as a property or real estate, not including buildings or equipment that does not occur naturally. Depending on the title, land ownership may also give the holder the rights to all natural resources on the land. These may include water, plants, human and animal life, fossils, soil, minerals, electromagnetic features, geographical location, and geoph...