Background: Recently, several papers have assessed land use consequences of biofuel expansion. In the absence of empirical evidence, these papers assigned subjective values to extensive margin (productivity of new croplands over productivity of existing croplands). Methods: This paper fills the gap in this area and provides a new data set which estimates land productivity at 0.5° × 0.5° (longit...

Extensive flood damages all over the world necessitate its control and operation. Hydrologic impacts of land use change appear in many ways such as total runoff, and flood peak flow. This study was performed in 2014 and aimed to investigate the impacts of land use changes on the occurrence of floods in the catchment of Boostan dam in Golestan province, Iran. For this purpose, Watershed Modeling...

L use has an enormous impact on the coastal aquatic system of the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, USA.The problems associated with land use and land management practices on the Chesapeake Bay are amplified by the high ratio of land to water. Thus, widespread land use changes significantly impact the bay’s hydrology, water quality and ecology.These impacts promoted a sequence of management initiatives...

The main purpose of this paper is to explain the factors affecting the change of service land uses in the city of Shiraz and identify its reasons. For this purpose, the second-order confirmatory factor analysis technique has been used as one of the structural equation modeling techniques to determine the severity of the effect of the four factors on land use change, through which a contributing...

the research used the satellite image (landsat 7 etm ) within the thermal infrared sixth band (tir6) and geographic information system (gis) to determine the air pollution and its relationship with the land cover (lc) and land use (lu) of baghdad city. concentration of total suspended particles (tsp), lead (pb), carbon oxides (co, co2), and sulphur dioxide (so2) were obtained from 22 ground mea...

agricultural land conversion (alc) has been introduced as one of the most important factorsaffecting ecosystem. this type of conversion has led to several challenges in agricultural development andhuman life. monitoring alc plays a crucial role when dealing with such challenges. the main objective of thisstudywas to monitor the trend ofalc in theqazvin province located in northwest iran from 19...

in land use planning, mapping the present land use / land cover situation is a necessary tool for determining the current condition and for identifying land use trends. in this study, in order to provide a land use/ land cover map for ilam watershed, the irs-1c image data from 25th april 2006 were used. initial qualitative evaluation on data showed no significant radiometric error. ortho-rectif...

The objective of this research was to determine the best model and compare performances in terms of producing landuse maps from six supervised classification algorithms. As a result, different algorithms such as the minimum distance ofmean (MDM), Mahalanobis distance (MD), maximum likelihood (ML), artificial neural network (ANN), spectral anglemapper (SAM), and support vector machine (SVM) were...