As a response to the challenge of rapid pace of urbanization and lack of reliable data for
environmental and urban planning, especially in the developing countries, this paper …

In this study, urban growth of the Atakum District in Samsun, Turkey, was simulated by
Cellular Automata-Markov Chain (CA-MC) and Multi-layer Perceptron-Markov Chain (MLP …

An accurate information on the amount and location of Land use and land cover (LULC)
changes is necessary to develop and implement a sustainable-urban planning. This …

The main purpose of this study is to examine the potential impacts of the past and future land
use/cover (LUC) changes on the ecosystem services of Baguio city, the Philippines, and …

Human activities contribute highly to water eutrophication. In this study, the relationship
between human activities and water eutrophication in Dianchi Lake in China was …

Abstract As other Mediterranean areas, Catalonia has experienced a forest transition
following rural abandonment during the last sixty years. The GIS reconstruction of three land …

The classification of remotely sensed images such as aerial photographs or satellite sensor
images for deriving ecosystem-related maps (eg, land cover, land use, vegetation, soil) is …

Aim Species distribution models (SDM) can be used to predict the location of unknown
populations from known species occurrences. It follows that how the data used to calibrate …

Identifying sources of anthropogenic pollution, and assessing the fate and residence time of
pollutants in aquifers is important for the management of groundwater resources, and the …

The most pervasive threats to biological diversity are directly or indirectly linked to the road
networks. For this reason, over the last few decades, interest in the study of the ecological …