7.1 Background Cognitive mapping is defined as "a process composed of a series of psychological transformations by which an individual acquires, stores, recalls, and decodes information about the relative locations and attributes of the phenomena in his everyday spatial environment" (Downs & Stea, 1973: 7). Cognitive mapping is usually considered to be a subset of spatial cognition which can be...

Motivated by recent advances on local conductance measurement techniques at the nanoscale, timely questions are being raised about what possible information can be extracted from a disordered graphene sheet selectively interrogating its transport properties. Here we demonstrate how an inversion technique originally developed to identify number of scatterers in quantum device adapted multi-termi...

Mineral prospectivity mapping is a crucial technique for discovering new economic mineral deposits. However, detailed knowledge-based geological exploration and interpretations generally involve significant costs, time, human resources. In this study, an ensemble machine learning approach was tested using geoscience datasets to map Cu-Au Pb-Zn in the Cobar Basin, NSW, Australia. The input (magn...

Assessing the suitability of urban and agricultural land is essential for planning sustainable systems. The main objective this study to evaluate in Ioannina plain (western Greece) concerning soil contents two potentially toxic elements, cadmium (Cd) cobalt (Co). Geochemical spatial analysis methods were applied assess distribution Cd Co identify their origin. primary anthropogenic sources tops...