Landscape structure was investigated on six test sites in Switzerland, selected along a land-use intensity gradient. The test areas were captured with remote sensing images on three spatial resolutions: 1) fused Landsat ETM-IRS and 2) Quickbird satellite images as well as 3) CIR aerial photos. Segmentation and fuzzy classification were implemented on the images to extract landscape patch indice...

With the emergence of more and more satellites delivering very high resolution (VHR) imagery with ground sampling distances in the range of one meter or below the generation of three dimensional urban models directly from space may become possible. Such models are required for many applications in areas where no up-to-date detailed urban mapping exists like in developing countries. Besides the ...

soil salinity has been a large problem in arid and semi arid regions. preparation of such maps is useful for natural resource managers. old methods of preparing such maps require a lot of time and cost. multi-spectral remotely sensed dates due to the broad vision and repeating of these imageries is suitable for provide saline soil maps. this investigation is conducted to provide saline soil map...

Converting rangelands to arable land such as dry farming is widely practiced in many places in Iran. This activity could possibly contribute to the increase in downstream sedimentation. The effects of this activity on downstream watersheds are not well documented for many strategic areas in the country. One such area which is proposed for this study is the Kardeh drainage basin, located in the ...

raisins are one of the most important parts of agriculture products to export and malayer gardens are one of the most valuables lands to produce vitis vinifera for raisin industry in recent years. the region has some problems to mange water resources due to climate change effects and drought. understanding of hydrology balance and drought period is one of most tools to manage the water crisis i...

The increasing number of personal digital photos on the Web makes their management, retrieval and visualization a difficult task. To annotate these images using Semantic Web technologies is the emerging solution to decrease the lack of the description in photos files. However, existing tools performing manual annotation are time consuming for the users. In this context, this paper proposes a se...

Recent trend on the web is to share their traveling experience via uploading photos to web albums. Shared photos of sightseeing spots are important resources for those who are going to visit there. As sightseeing spot scenes vary with different situations, such as weather and season, automatic classification of photos into different situations is expected to be beneficial for tourists to plan w...

Many people take pictures of different city landmarks and post them to photo-sharing systems like Flickr. They also add tags and place photos in Flickr groups, created around particular themes. Using tags, other people can search for representative landmark images of places of interest. Searching for landmarks using tags results into many non-landmark photos and provides poor landmark summary f...