introduction: soil has an important role in nutrient cycle and an important function in storage, refinement, and movement of nutrients for the living and non-living parts. soil pollution of heavy metals and elements is one of the common pollution impacts of human activities, especially industry. realization of distribution pattern of these elements and their anthropogenic sources is a major par...

We present a method for labeling the land-cover in an aerial image using image texture statistics and a trained neural network to interpret the texture data. The introduction includes a brief discussion of land-cover mapping and the types of land-cover classes we would like to identify. There is a section describing the texture statistics used and the Gray Level Cooccurrence Matrix (GLCM) for c...

This study presents a method to model population densities by using image texture statistics of semi-variance. In a case study of the City of Austin, Texas, we first selected sample census blocks of the same land use to build population models by land use. Regression analyses were conducted to infer the relationship between block population densities and image texture statistics of the semivari...

In order to realize county-level land use database remittance, establish the provincial land use database and realize annual change statistics, this paper analyzed the requirements for establishing the provincial land use database remittance standards. It proposed the principle of establish the standard compile, introduced the standard establishment process, described the standard main content,...

Remote sensing has the potential to provide estimates of important inputs for the land process models, for instance the land cover type, the soil moisture and the LAI. Such models can provide information that is crucial for a number of applications such as flood and drought prediction, crop irrigation scheduling, and meteorology. Also, land cover maps provide fundamental information to many asp...

Background: Perinatal mortality rate is very high in North Eastern Nigeria mainly due to a large number of still births. The causes and factors related need to be identified so as to proffer solutions with a view to improving obstetric practice and perinatal survival. Objectives: To identify the causes and factors related to stillbirths in Dukku Local Government Area of Gombe state. Methodology...

Adaptation of existing Information Extraction (IE) systems to new languages and domains is the focus of much current research, but progress is often hindered by the lack of available resources to enable developers to get a new system up and running fast. It has previously been shown that a good set of gazetteer lists can have a vital role here, but creation of lists for a new language or domain...