Land subsidence is a significant problem around the world that can increase risk of flooding, damage to infrastructure, and economic loss. Hence, continual monitoring important for early detection, mechanism understanding, countermeasure implementation, deformation prediction. In this study, we used multiple-sensor observations from Continuous Global Positioning System (CGPS), small baseline su...

For most of the rural poor in developing countries, improving day-to-day quality of life requires improvements in agricultural productivity. With the gradual reduction of government support for public agricultural research, extension, and marketing in many of these settings, the dissemination of new agricultural technologies is increasingly shaped by the private sector(Feder, Willett and Zijp 2...

Since the Land Administration Bureau was established in 1986, China has carried out the national land-use planning twice, of which the first was focused on "serving for social and economic development", and the second converted to “protecting arable land". At present a new round of land-use planning is ongoing (2005-2020), but the aims and requirements are even more and higher(Zheng Weiyuan,200...