Land policy in India has been under discussion even prior to independence and especially following the infamous Deccan Riots. One of the important issues on which the peasants backed the independence movement was the land to the tiller policy promised by the then Congress party. Immediately after the independence a Committee under the Chairmanship of Late Shri J C Kumarappa (A senior Congress l...

While cellular automata (CA) models have been increasingly used over the last decades to simulate a wide range of spatial phenomena, recent studies have illustrated that they are sensitive to cell size and neighborhood configuration. In this paper, a new vector-based cellular automata (VecGCA) model is described to overcome the scale sensitivity of the raster-based CA models. VecGCA represents ...

AdvancedVery HighResolutionRadiometer (AVHRR) data have been extensively used for global land-cover classiŽ cation, but few studies have taken direct and full advantage of the multi-year properties of AVHRR data. This study focused on generating eVective classiŽ cation features from multi-year AVHRR data to improve classiŽ cation accuracy.Three types of features were derived from 12-year monthl...

The advent of very high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery and the development of Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) have led to many new opportunities for fine-scale land cover mapping, especially in urban areas. Image segmentation is an important step in the GEOBIA framework, so great time/effort is often spent to ensure that computer-generated image segments closely match real-w...

The spatial and temporal characteristics and driving factors analysis of regional land use are the core scientific problems in the research of ecological environment and human sustainable development. It is also an important basis for the government to formulate land management policy. Based on the land use maps of 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015, this article analyzed the spatiotemporal pattern of l...

Overview The integration of land administration processes and the collaboration of land agencies are considered essential for the effective delivery of developable land for housing production. However, in most countries, housing and land management policies are usually split between multiple government agencies. The background literature suggests that the activities of governments’ agencies tha...

Land-use change is a major cause of wildlife habitat loss. Understanding how changes in land-use policies and economic factors can impact future trends in land use and wildlife habitat loss is therefore critical for conservation efforts. Our goal here was to evaluate the consequences of future land-use changes under different conservation policies and crop market conditions on habitat loss for ...

Based on the concept of sea–land coordination and the statistical data of Hainan Province from 1999 to 2013, we establish a new evaluation index system included four aspects—economic development, social progress, environmental protection and resource efficiency—and use the integrated approach (such as the combination weight method, the coupling coordination degree model, the scissors difference...

Forecasting urban futures is of great importance to many in order to ensure adequate provision of public and private services and implement policies that guide demand while mitigating negative impacts. This study produces year-2030 predictions of land use and travel conditions across the Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area of Texas, by integrating a gravity-based land use model (mod...

This working paper serves as an introductory reference for those studying the application of land-use–transportation models to the simulation of urban systems. The paper is by no means comprehensive, but aims to provide the reader with a foundation in the basic principles underlying land-use–transportation models and to set those principles in the context of urban management and urban studies. ...