The change of land use/land cover has been known as an imperative force in environmental alteration, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. This research was mainly aimed to assess the validity of two major types of land change modeling techniques via a three dimensional approach in Birjand urban watershed located in an arid climatic region of Iran. Thus, a Markovian approach based on two suit...

Soil nematodes are useful ecological indicators and can be extracted from soil by a variety of techniques. Because the nematode samples (suspensions) quite turbid (i.e., they contain particles organic in addition to nematodes), quantitative taxonomic analyses microscopy difficult. In this study, following three methods for cleaning suspensions obtained Baermann funnels were assessed: repeated c...

Urbanization is developing unprecedentedly on a global scale. One of the chief repercussions of urbanization, caused by man-made alterations in land-use/land-cover (LULC), is the formation of urban heat islands. Albeit, differences among landscape structures and its accompanied effects on the environment are mostly neglected. Accordingly, the main objective of this study is to survey the variou...

Neighbourhood interactions between land use types are often included in the spatially explicit analysis of land use change. Especially in the context of urban growth, neighbourhood interactions are often addressed both in theories for urban development and in dynamic models of (urban) land use change. Neighbourhood interactions are one of the main driving factors in a large group of land use ch...

Using deep learning semantic segmentation for land use extraction is the most challenging problem in medium spatial resolution imagery. This because of convolution layer and multiple levels steps baseline network, which can cause a degradation small features. In this paper, algorithm comprises an adjustment network architecture (LoopNet) dataset proposed automatic classification using Landsat 8...

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the land-use change and its relationship with its driving factors in the loess hilly region. In this study, a case study was carried out in Pengyang County. We set two land-use demand scenarios (a baseline scenario (scenario 1) and a real land-use requirement scenario (scenario 2)) during year 2001-2005 via assuming the effect of driving factors o...

The main objective of this project was to derive digital land use and land cover information from satellite remote sensing data for Connecticut, Long Island, and those watersheds contributing to Long Island Sound. In doing so, four methods of land use and land cover classification were evaluated on two test quadrangles to determine which method was best suited, in terms of time and costs balanc...

Land use and management affect soil hydrological processes, the impacts can be further enhanced accelerated due to climate change. In this study, we analyzed possible long-term effects of different land types on processes based future climatic scenarios. Soil moisture temperature probes were installed at four sites, a cropland, vineyard, meadow, forest area. Based modeling changes in water cont...