This study is concerned with the relationship between transport accessibility and increases in land value, motivated by a desire to inform the land value capture debate. Focusing on residential land, here land value is examined through the form of house prices, using the Tyne and Wear Region of the UK as a case study. In a typical hedonic price model, adopted widely in property studies, the ass...

Many major cities in the U.S. and throughout the world, including New York City, have areas where clusters of skyscrapers are present. Why do builders choose to build real estate with such height? And, how does the choice of height depend on characteristics of nearby buildings, demographics, and other spatial factors? Using a data set consisting of detailed information for 458 skyscrapers in Ne...

Data fusion represents a powerful way of integrating individual sources of information to produce a better output than could be achieved by any of the individual sources on their own. This paper focuses on the data fusion of different land cover products derived from remote sensing. In the past, many different methods have been applied, without regard to their relative merit. In this study, we ...

The Guariroba river basin was decreed as an Environmental Protection Area (EPA), and with a surface of 360 km² it is great importance to the municipality Campo Grande because supports almost half water supply system latter. predominantly covered by Cretaceous sediments Caiuá Group, which constitutes free aquifer known Bauru Aquifer System (BAS). Recent studies have confirmed contribution BAS in...

In cold and humid climates, warming temperatures will result in longer growing seasons, leading to land cover changes that could have long-term impacts on groundwater recharge (GWR), addition the direct of climate change. The objective this study was therefore investigate whether (LC) need be considered when simulating regional-scale potential GWR climates by (1) quantifying how LC impact simul...

The only way for dengue to spread in the human population is through the human-mosquito-human cycle. Most research in this field discusses the dengue-mosquito or dengue-human relationships over a particular study area, but few have explored the local spatial variations of dengue-mosquito and dengue-human relationships within a study area. This study examined whether spatial heterogeneity exists...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem in China, and its incidence shows certain regional disparities. Systematic investigations of the social and environmental factors influencing TB are necessary for the prevention and control of the disease. Data on cases were obtained from the Chinese Center for Disease and Prevention. Social and environmental variables were tabulated to in...

In this study, we employed Geographical Information Systems and remote sensing techniques to investigate the impact of land-use/cover change on land surface temperature (LST) in a rapidly urbanisation city, Kunming in southwest China. Spatial patterns of LST and land use for 1992 and 2006 were derived from Landsat images to examine how LST responded to urban growth. Remote sensing indices were ...