Reliable and up-to-date urban land cover information is valuable in urban planning and
policy development. Due to the increasing demand for reliable land cover information there …

The availability of landuse/cover information allows decisionmakers to develop short and
long term plans for the sustainable use, conservation and development of natural resources …

The optimum use and appropriate management of renewable resources, with dynamic
characteristics, needs to evaluate and classify the ecological capability of environment and …

Due to the hard climatic conditions of the yardang region in the Lut Desert, not much
information about land surface temperatures of this region, one of the extremely arid climatic …

This study investigated the impact of seasonal land cover changes on human thermal
comfort outdoors in Harare, Zimbabwe in Southern Africa. Multi-temporal thermal infrared …

Soil is one of the most important natural resources covering a large area of the land surface.
Soil plays a vital role in biosphere processes, such as energy balance, hydrology …

Land use planning is one of the basic principles of sustainable development in a region and
in a country. The main objective of this paper is to test a new model of land use planning in …

Agricultural suitability assessment is a process that requires spatial data, geo-information
tools, and the expertise of a computer scientist to analyze the information. The main …

Land evaluation methods are crucial for evaluating the potentials and constraints of land for
intended land use. In the procedure, environmental criteria such as topography, soil, climate …

ABSTRACT A knowledge of soil surface conditions, especially desert crust, salt crust and
desert varnish is useful for improving classification of remotely sensed data. Desert crust can …