Most of the studies related to urban environments in developing countries focus mainly on particular aspects e.g.communication, residential, vegetated areas, etc. However, planners who are concerned about urban space ...

For the interpretation of remote sensing data the traditional methods such as multispectral classification are in many cases not sufficient. This applies especially to more complex scenes. In order to interpret such scenes ...

Natural control of invertebrate crop pests has the potential to complement or replace conventional insecticide-based practices, but its mainstream application is hampered by predictive unreliability across agroecosystems. ...

The automated interpretation of aerial image data is a task with increasing significance for several applications, e.g. quality control and automatic updating of GIS data, automatic land use change detection, measurement ...

Remittances—funds sent by migrants to family and friends back home—are an important source of global monetary flows, and they have implications for the maintenance and transformation of land systems. A number of published ...

We examine the use of high spatial resolution ‘GeoEYE’ imagery for land use classification in a tropical landscape. Image objects (I-Os) derived from features identification provide a basis for segmentation process and the ...