In this paper we discuss the innovative software solutions offered by e-Spatial technology for the deployment of webbased and mobile spatial information management systems. This technology has been developed within the Oracle 9i Database environment and allows users to build and deploy spatially enabled Internet applications on any Oracle supported hardware platform and on any device running a ...

Land-use and land-cover change, human activity that results in altered land-use systems and surface features, defines the environmental and socioeconomic sustainability of communities around the globe. It is a key response to global environmental change in addition to being both a key cause and medium of this change. This article examines an application of the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region...

This paper introduces urban land teleconnections as a conceptual framework that explicitly links land changes to underlying urbanization dynamics. We illustrate how three key themes that are currently addressed separately in the urban sustainability and land change literatures can lead to incorrect conclusions and misleading results when they are not examined jointly: the traditional system of ...

The nutrient management element of a CNMP addresses the requirements for land application of manure nutrients. Land application is the preferred method of utilizing manure since these materials can supply large amounts of nutrients for crop growth, thereby reducing the need to apply commercial fertilizers. CNMP criteria are established to provide for adequate nutrients for crop growth and to mi...

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...

Nowhere in the eastern United States is the con ̄ict between the conservation of the rich biological diversity of existing forested landscapes vs. a continued expansion of suburban/exurban development more evident than in the case of Sterling Forest, a 7245 ha tract of land on the New York±New Jersey border. This paper reports on our application of geographic information systems (GIS)-based asse...

Land-titling programs in low-income nations have provided the opportunity to leverage the application of geospatial technology to support low-cost titling and expedite implementation. The spatial data acquired and managed in land administration is often a cornerstone of a broader spatial data infrastructure (SDI) in a country. Geospatial technology use in land titling is often viewed narrowly i...

This paper presents a review of the application of Bi-directional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) models in the inference of land surface parameters at regional and global scales using remotely sensed data. Information on land surface parameters, such as Leaf Area Index (LAI), fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fAPAR), aerodynamic surface roughness and albedo, ar...

Corresponding to the characteristics of multi-discipline and multi-level management, land administration always requires and acquires spatial data at very different spatial and thematic resolution. This particularity leads to many problems in spatial data acquisition and data management such as: inconsistency and difficulty in exchanging data between data sources and application disciplines. Th...