Aims Grasslands are the world's most extensive terrestrial ecosystem, and are a major feed
source for livestock. Meeting increasing demand for meat and other dairy products in a …

The knowledge of impervious surfaces, especially the magnitude, location, geometry, spatial
pattern of impervious surfaces and the perviousness–imperviousness ratio, is significant to a …

This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography,
linking individual-and population-level processes to geographic distributions and …

Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing: An Environmental Approach, Third Edition, is a
definitive guide to remote sensing systems that focuses on satellite-based remote sensing …

Image classification is a complex process that may be affected by many factors. This paper
examines current practices, problems, and prospects of image classification. The emphasis …

Since the publishing of the first edition of Classification Methods for Remotely Sensed Data
in 2001, the field of pattern recognition has expanded in many new directions that make use …

Over the last ten years, scholars in human geography have been paying increasing
theoretical and empirical attention to understanding the ways in which the production of …

Written by experts, Digital Terrain Modeling: Principles and Methodology provides
comprehensive coverage of recent developments in the field. The topics include terrain …

Abstract Even though Gehlke and Biehl (1934) discovered certain aspects of the modifiable
areal unit problem (MAUP), the term MAUP was not coined formally until Openshaw and …

Processing the vast amounts of data on the Earth's land surface environment generated by
NASA's and other international satellite programs is a significant challenge. Filling a gap …