Unauthorized construction land expansion has caused considerable irreversible damage to the environment in many developing countries because it is difficult to be prevented using conventional longterm (annual or multi-year) land use change detection with optical remote sensing data. Radar remote sensing which is independent of weather conditions is a promising tool to detect land developments o...

Causes of over-dispersed barren "fairy circles" that are often surrounded by ca. 0.5 m tall peripheral grasses in a matrix of shorter (ca. 0.2 m tall) grasses in Namibian grasslands remain mysterious. It was hypothesized that the fairy circles are the consequence of self-organizing spatial vegetation patterning arising from resource competition and facilitation. We examined the edaphic properti...

Accurate mapping of temporal changes in urban land use and land cover (LULC) is important for monitoring urban expansion and changes in LULC, urban planning, environmental management, and environmental modeling. In this study, we present a feature-based approach of the decision tree classification (FBA-DTC) method for mapping LULC based on spectral and topographic information. Landsat 5 TM and ...

In an area like the Jharia coal® eld ( JCF), where extensive and rapid underground and opencast mining is going on continuously, land-use studies are of paramount importance. This paper discusses the remote sensing-GIS techniques used for identi® cation of various land-use classes on satellite imagery and enhanced products and identi® cation of time-sequential changes in land-use patterns. The ...

Barren, the Drosophila homolog of XCAP-H, is one of three non-SMC subunits of condensin, a conserved 13S multiprotein complex required for chromosome condensation. Mutations in barren (barr) were originally shown to affect sister-chromatid separation during mitosis 16 of the Drosophila embryo, whereas condensation defects were not detected. In contrast, mutations in yeast homologs of barren res...

India, being an agricultural country analysis of soil texture and water resource plays a vital role in increasing the productivity of crops. The area of study is Vellore district in Tamil Nadu where agriculture is the main occupation. Though it is a fact, most of the land remains uncultivated due to the lack of knowledge of soil and water wealth. This paper proposes a method to analyze the suit...

As very fragile natural ecological areas, the spatiotemporal environment (EE) analysis of World Natural Heritage Sites (WNHSs) is particularly important for their conservation and sustainable development. Timely, objective quantitative evaluation EE change characteristics WNHSs great significance ecological, environmental protection government policy formulation. This study quantitatively evalu...