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Examining the Nature of a Floodplain Using GIS Open Data: A Case Study of Jan...
Flooding is one of the rampant and persistent problems in many of the developing countries. Sustainable and innovative actions are needed to address the continuously increasing... -
Analyzing Spatial and Non-Spatial Factors That Influence Educational Quality ...
Education is the most powerful instrument to transform socioeconomic status of given society. However,education will be only more effective when its quality is sustained.... -
Land Use Land Cover Change Analysis Using Geospatial Tools in Case of Asayita...
Land use land cover change is a complex matter, which is caused by numerous biophysical, socioeconomical and institutional factors. The main objective of this study was to... -
Using Geospatial Techniques in the Selection of Potential Ecotourism Sites in...
Ecotourism is expressed as when tourists are attracted to a given geographic area (i.e. space) which has its own available natural, environmental, and socioeconomic resources by... -
Assessing Habitat Quality of the Mountain Nyala Tragelaphus Buxtoni in the Ba...
Populations of the endangered mountain nyala Tragelaphus buxtoni are significantly threatened by the loss of critical habitat. Population estimates are tentative, and... -
Investigation of Groundwater Potential Zone Using Geospatial Technology in Ba...
Geospatial technology has been done to identify spatially the extents of highly suitable and moderately suitable areas for groundwater demarcation. Several input... -
Geospatial Approach for Grevy’s Zebra Suitable Habitat Analysis, Allidegi Wil...
Maps of species distributions or habitat suitability are required for many aspects of environmental research, resource management, and conservation planning. Currently natural... -
Groundwater Potential Mapping Using Geospatial Techniques: A Case Study of Dh...
The objective of this paper is to exploit the potential application of weighted index overlay analysis for assessing groundwater potential mapping at Dhungeta-Ramis sub-basin,... -
What has driven deforestation in developing countries since the 2000s? Eviden...
Using newly-released and globally available high resolution remote sensing data on forest loss, we update the assessment of the crosscountry determinants of deforestation in... -
Deep Learning Classification of Land Cover and Crop Types Using Remote Sensin...
Deep learning (DL) is a powerful state-of-the-art technique for image processing including remote sensing (RS) images. This letter describes a multilevel DL architecture that... -
Global Nighttime Light Change from 1992 to 2017: Brighter and More Uniform
Nighttime light images record the brightness of the Earth surface, indicating the scope and intensity of human activities. However, there are few studies on the long-term... -
Identifying and mapping night lights using imaging spectrometry
Remote mapping of night lights using the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) has been used for decades to inventory the global distribution of human activity. ©... -
A comparison of nighttime satellite imagery and population density for the co...
The striking apparent correlation between nighttime satellite imagery and human population density was explored for the continental United States. The nighttime stable-lights... -
Long-wave infrared identification of smoldering peat fires in Indonesia with ...
Smoldering peat fires in Indonesia are responsible for large quantities of trace gas and particulate emissions. However, to date no satellite remote sensing technique has been... -
Utilizing publicly available satellite data for urban research: Mapping built...
Urbanization is a fundamental trend of the past two centuries, shaping many dimensions of the modern world. Toguide this phenomenon and support growth of cities that are... -
Using Landsat and nighttime lights for supervised pixel-based image classific...
Reliable representations of global urban extent remain limited, hindering scientific progress across a range of disciplines that study functionality of sustainable cities. We... -
Infrastructure Quality Assessment in Africa using Satellite Imagery and Deep ...
The UN Sustainable Development Goals allude to the importance of infrastructure quality in three of its seventeen goals. However, monitoring infrastructure quality in developing... -
Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa and Implication for Malaria Control
Malaria not only remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, but it also impedes socioeconomic development, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Rapid and unprecedented... -
Modeling and mapping total freight traffic in China using NPP-VIIRS nighttime...
In early 2013, the first global Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) visible infrared imaging radiometer suite (VIIRS) nighttime light composite data were released.... -
Modeling the Population of China Using DMSP Operational Linescan System Night...
Radiance-calibrated DMSP-OLS nighttime lights data of China acquired between March 1996 and January-February 1997 were evaluated for their potential as a source of population...