Visual pollution, observed in urban areas, makes human beings suffer indirectly from mental distress and illnesses in long term. We are daily confronted with a variety of advertisement pictures in city squares and review them in our minds. But we may not be aware of the fact that such a visual scramble leads to mind distraction, decreasing mental concentration. The present study applies the tec...

Visual pollution, observed in urban areas, makes human beings suffer indirectly from mental distress and illnesses in long term. We are daily confronted with a variety of advertisement pictures in city squares and review them in our minds. But we may not be aware of the fact that such a visual scramble leads to mind distraction, decreasing mental concentration. The present study applies the tec...

Climate change is one of the greatest environmental, economic, and social challenges of our time. Urban transportation has had a major negative impact on our environment—most of our air pollution comes from transport. This paper explores ways to move toward a more sustainable transport system by focusing on creating a more efficient and livable city and improving the environmental efficiency of...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can bring many benefits, particularly in emergency response and disaster management. However, they also induce negative effects, such as noise visual pollution, risk, integrity concerns. In this work, we study developing a quantitative measure that calculate the pollution from one or multiple UAVs. First, Analytic Hierarchy Process was utilized an expert workshop...

In the last years, the attention of the public community on electromagnetic pollution has continuously grown. In this paper we argue that the use of Geographic Information Systems in this domain should be encouraged as a valid support to the monitoring activities related to this phenomenon. In particular, our proposal of a visual environment, the Metaphor GIS Query Language is shown to provide ...

In this article, the Environmental pollution in Iraq was studied by using the remote sensing techniques for the period (2010-2014). In general, the environmental pollution can be divided into three major parts: Air, Water, and soil pollutions. To overcome the problem, multi-satellite images with different resolution and bands at different dates were used to detect and quantize the source of pol...