Land cover assessment plays a vital role in both current and future planning use of natural resources for sustainable development any country. For the good practice vision 2030 Al Baha region (south-western Saudi Arabia), land was assessed, classified, analyzed using remote sensing databases time series analysis combined with spatial geographic information system (GIS) based on high-resolution ...

Abstract. The study evaluates the global glacier inventories available for area viz., RGI, GAMDAM and ICIMOD, with newly generated Kashmir University Glacier Inventory (KUGI) three Himalaya basins; Jhelum, Suru Chenab in north-western Himalaya, comprising of 2096 glaciers spread over an 3300 km2. KUGI was prepared from Landsat data supplemented by Digital Elevation Model, Google Earth images li...

A monitoring survey was conducted from August 2011 to July 2016 of the spatiotemporal distribution in the 400 km2 area of the northern part of Tokyo Bay and in rivers flowing into it of radiocesium released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident. The average inventory in the river mouth (10 km2) was 131 kBq⋅m-2 and 0.73 kBq⋅m-2 in the central bay (330 km2) as the decay ...

This study presents a synthetic model intercomparison to investigate the importance of transport model errors for estimating the sources and sinks of CO2 using satellite measurements. The experiments were designed for testing the potential performance of the proposed CO2 lidar ASCOPE, but also apply to other space borne missions that monitor total column CO2. The participating transport models ...

OBJECTIVES This was a two-part descriptive study designed to (1) assess the marketing themes and sugar content of beverages promoted in outdoor advertisements (ads) within a portion of Accra, Ghana and (2) quantify the types of ads that appeared along the Accra-Cape Coast Highway. SETTING A 4.7 km2 area of Accra, Ghana and a 151 km region along the highway represented the target areas for col...

Energy production in the United States for domestic use and export is predicted to rise 27% by 2040. We quantify projected energy sprawl (new land required for energy production) in the United States through 2040. Over 200,000 km2 of additional land area will be directly impacted by energy development. When spacing requirements are included, over 800,000 km2 of additional land area will be affe...

Land-cover and land-use change (LCLUC) alters landscape patterns and affects regional ecosystems. The objective of this study was to examine LCLUC and landscape patterns in Ebinur Lake Wetland National Nature Reserve (ELWNNR) and Ganjia Lake Haloxylon Forest National Nature Reserve (GLHFNNR), two biodiversity-rich national nature reserves in the Ebinur Lake Watershed (ELW), Xinjiang, China. Lan...

The urban environment quality is of vital importance as the majority of people now live in cities. Due to the continuous urbanisation and industrialisation in many parts of the world, metals are continuously emitted into the terrestrial environment and pose a great threat on human health. An extensive survey was conducted in the highly urbanised and commercialised Hong Kong Island area (80.3 km...

It is argued that trophy hunting of large, charismatic mammal species can have considerable conservation benefits but only if undertaken sustainably. Social-ecological theory suggests such sustainability only results from developing governance systems that balance financial and biological requirements. Here we use lion (Panthera leo) trophy hunting data from Tanzania to investigate how resource...

We collected data on the distribution of booted macaques (Macaca ochreata) in Faruhumpenai Nature Reserve in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, in order to assess its conservation status. Methodology included censuses conducted along piecewise linear transects established at two sites from April – July 2006. The total distance walked was 45 km for the Matano site, and 20 km for the Kasintuwu site. Grou...