We describe a land market with a simple statistical model and simulate an artificial archive of land transactions via Monte Carlo sampling.
Wilson, M. F. & Henderson-Sellers, A. A global archive of land cover and soils data for use in general circulation climate models.
The parameters of our virtual market are estimated from a historical archive of land transactions in the Province of Gelderland The Netherlands, using minimization of the divergence (relative entropy) between the observed and simulated joint distributions of distance and transaction price.
"I wanted to create an archive, a piece of land that I could manage myself.
We present the results of a multidisciplinary project using agricultural sediments from ancient terraces as a cultural archive of environmental pollution and land use in the copper ore-rich Faynan valley of southern Jordan.
And while the rest of us have our scrapbooks of faded yellowing newspaper clippings, long made obsolete by digital archives, this friend has immense amounts of land, bricks, mortar, en suite bathrooms, sailing dinghies, tasteful guest rooms adorned with the hostess's paintings, a sauna, whirlpool, tennis court, lake frontage and views to die for.
As Burlingame put it in a glowing letter to Secretary of State William Seward: "Let this wish, though unexecuted, find worthy record in the archives of his native land, to show that neither self-exile, nor foreign service, nor the incidents of a stormy life could extinguish from the breast of this wandering child of the republic the fires of a truly loyal heart".
post-disaster damage assessment; updating of land cover and landslide inventory maps; corresponding archives are often available over a given area.
Government archives used Kannada for recording pragmatic information relating to grants of land.
Image access has surged over the last few decades, the spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution of observations have increased, and data archives cover increasingly longer time periods, altogether allowing for more detailed assessments of land use changes than ever before.
Images drawn from Schneiders's work in the archives are nice complements, especially in Chapter 4, which includes village plans and maps of land use.
