Purpose. The assess and compare the structure of land use urban, township rural territorial communities, to develop an optimization model in case decentralization Methods. Assessment, comparative-geographical, geoinformation, statistical, mathematical, geoecological analysis modeling. During study, special methods were used determine anthropogenic pressure, coefficients ecological stability tra...

The Illinois Geographic Information System was used to compare the soil and landscape attributes of the State with its historic vegetation, current land use, and patterns of land-use change over the past 160 years. Patch structural characteristics among land types in four geographic zones were also compared. The assessment of patch characteristics revealed a highly modified State with most land...

in recent years, due to absence of integrated watershed management in most regions, natural resources have witnessed numerous damages with severe floods as one of its consequences which further leads to economic, social and environmental damages. presently, there is no optimal utilization of land in most watersheds hence no optimal model matching with facilities and objectives is used in the wa...

Introduction and model structure The Conversion of Land Use and its Effects modelling framework (CLUE) (Veldkamp and Fresco, 1996; Verburg et al., 1999) was developed to simulate land use change using empirically quantified relations between land use and its driving factors in combination with dynamic modelling of competition between land use types. The modelling approach has been modified and ...

this interdisciplinary paper aims at guangzhou’s development and its effects on surface andgroundwater quality taking the new city axis as an example. qualitative morphological analyses, field mappings, interviews and water sampling of standard in-situ and various hydrochemical parameters were conducted between 2007 and 2009 in order to examine the following research questions: which types of l...

Land units, land utilization types and land use systems need to be defined differently for different scale levels, eg, for farm, regional and world levels, as illustrated in this paper. The Hoosbeek and Bryant diagram, showing methodology as a function of spatial scales, is used to illustrate research procedures based on user demands. Land use decisions are made on strategic, tactical and opera...

Residential land-use expansion, an important component of urban sprawl, has a variety of drivers and environmental implications. The goal of this article is to address the timing, location, and mechanisms of different types of residential development. Using 10 land-parcel data and aerial imagery taken between 1950 and 2000 for eight townships in southeastern Michigan, we sampled and classified ...

The advent of geolocated information and communication technologies opens the possibility of exploring how people use space in cities, bringing an important new tool for urban scientists and planners, especially for regions where data are scarce or not available. Here we apply a functional network approach to determine land use patterns from mobile phone records. The versatility of the method a...

An artificial neural network is a system based on the operation of biological neural networks, in other words, is an emulation of biological neural system. Artificial Neural Networks or simply Neural Networks are powerful general purpose computing tools. They have become popular in the analysis of remotely sensed data, particularly in classification or feature extraction from image data more ac...