Urban areas alter local atmospheric conditions by modifying surface albedo and consequently the surface radiation and energy balances, releasing waste heat from anthropogenic uses, and increasing atmospheric aerosols, all of which combine to increase temperatures in cities, especially overnight, compared with surrounding rural areas, resulting in a phenomenon called the “urban heat island” effe...

â  the purpose of this study is investigation of relationship between population dispersion and distribution of services in urban area of yazd city. descriptive-analytic methodology was used in this study according to physical devising housing and urbanization organization. yazd city is comprised of 11urban areas, with areas of 13415 (ha) and 447259 population spatial distribution of population...

land cover map is important for many urban planning and management activities. in this study, in order to produce land cover map of arak city, digital image of liss-iii scanner acquired on 16 june 2006 were employed. first of all, geometric correction with rmse 0.58 pixel was applied. considering the mountainous condition of the study area, topographic correction was applied to the image. in su...

Green belt is defined as a narrow green area surrounding an urban area. Shiraz green belt has been developed through 9 projects with a variety of purposes since 2005. The development of green belt is being considered in a number of Iranian cities, and therefore, investigation of Shiraz green belt’s purposes and challenges could contribute to an appropriate planning by decision makers. The main ...

Green belt is defined as a narrow green area surrounding an urban area. Shiraz green belt has been developed through 9 projects with a variety of purposes since 2005. The development of green belt is being considered in a number of Iranian cities, and therefore, investigation of Shiraz green belt’s purposes and challenges could contribute to an appropriate planning by decision makers. The main ...

In this study, prediction of the future land use cover (LULC) changes over Mumbai and its surrounding region, India, was conducted to have reference information in urban development. To obtain historical dynamics LULC, a supervised classification algorithm applied Landsat images 1992, 2002, 2011. Based on spatial drivers LULC 1992 multiple perceptron neural network (MLPNN)-based Markov chain mo...