The objectives of this study are to quantify, based on remote sensing data, processes of land-cover change and to test a Markov-based model to generate short-term land-cover...
Johanna Mård, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Maurizio Mazzoleni
To understand the spatiotemporal changes of flood risk, we need to determine the way in which humans adapt
and respond to flood events. One adaptation option consists of...
Changes in biodiversity owing to vegetation degradation resulting from widespread
urbanization demands serious attention. However, the connection between vegetation
degradation...
Yao Yao, Dongsheng Chen, Le Chen, Huan Wang, Qingfeng Guan
Urban extent data play an important role in urban management and urban studies, such as monitoring the process of urbanization and changes in the spatial configuration of urban...
One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of...
Manoharan, Rajamanickam, Mersha Alemu, Behailu Legesse, and Mohammedreha Abajihad
Malaria is an epidemic disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium and transmitted using the chew of infected female mosquitoes of the species Anopheles. The...
Urbanization has a pivotal role to play on land use land cover changes and ecological degradation, in return with some socioeconomic benefits. Hence, it is important to have...
We report on a systematic ground-based validation of DMSP-OLS night lights
imagery to detect rural electrification in Vietnam. Based on an original survey of village-level
units...
Cheruto, Mercy C.; Kauti, Matheaus K.; Kisangau, Daniel P.; Kariuki, Patrick C.
The surface of the earth is undergoing rapid land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes due to various socioeconomic
activities and natural phenomena. The main aim of this study was to...
This paper presents an integrated study of urbanization trends in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province of China, by using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing....
John D. Bolten, Wade T. Crow, Xiwu Zhan, Thomas J. Jackson, Curt A. Reynolds
Soil moisture is a fundamental data source used by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) International Production Assessment Division (IPAD) to monitor crop growth...
Qingzhu Gao, Yu’e Li, Yunfan Wan, Erda Lin, Wei Xiong, Wangzha Jiangcun, Baoshan Wang, Wenfu Li
This study selected vegetation cover as the main evaluation index, calculated the grassland degradation index (GDI) and established the remote sensing monitoring and evaluation...
Sebastiano B. Serpico, Silvana Dellepiane, Giorgio Boni, Gabriele Moser, Elena Angiati, Roberto Rudari
Satellite remote sensing missions devoted to Earth observation (EO) currently offer a unique capability to monitor the evolution of the Earth's surface by providing temporally...
Martha C. Anderson, Christopher Hain, Brian Wardlow, Augustin Pimstein, John R. mecikalski, William P. Kustas
The reliability of standard meteorological drought indices based on measurements of precipitation is limited by the spatial distribution and quality of currently available...
Zhenfeng Shao, Huyan Fu, Deren Li, Orhan Altan, Tao Cheng
Urban impervious surface coverage is an important parameter to understand effects of hydro-environment on the process of urbanization. Impervious surfaces have altered urban...
Ting Ma, Chenghu Zhou, Tao Pei, Susan Haynie, Junfu Fan
Urbanization process involving increased population size, spatially extended land cover and intensified economic activity plays a substantial role in anthropogenic environment...
Previous work has analyzed whether luminosity data contain useful information for estimating economic output and concluded that there was significant promise for regions with...
C. D. Elvidge, K. E. Baugh, S. J. Anderson, P. C. Sutton, T. Ghosh
We have developed a satellite data derived ''Night Light Development Index'' (NLDI) as a simple, objective, spatially explicit and globally available empirical measurement of...
Steeve Ebener, Christopher Murray, Ajay Tandon, Christopher C Elvidge
Sub-national figures providing information about the wealth of the population are useful in defining the spatial distribution of both economic activity and poverty within any...