Most human activities occur around where the user is physically located. Knowing the geographical serving area of web resources, therefore, is very important for many web applications. Here serving area stands for the geographical distribution of online users who are interested in a given web site. It can be also seen as the geographical area that this web site intends to reach. For example, th...

As a vital indicator for measuring urban development, urban areas are expected to be identified explicitly and conveniently with widely available dataset thereby benefiting the planning decisions and relevant urban studies. Existing approaches to identify urban areas normally based on midresolution sensing dataset, socioeconomic information (e.g. population density) generally associate with low...

makrān or mukrān was a vast region in the south eastern plateau of iran, whose border extended from kerman on the west to sind on the east. this extended area was limited to sistan on the north and makrān sea (sea of oman) on the south. makrān, mākā, mīkā, mukrān, gidruziyā, zhidruziyā, etc. are the names applied to this region in different historical periods. the expanse of this region’s borde...