We present an interdisciplinary study of the diversity and detectability of nonphotosynthetic pigments as biosignatures, which includes a description of environments that host nonphotosynthetic biologically pigmented surfaces, and a lab-based experimental analysis of the spectral and broadband color diversity of pigmented organisms on Earth.
hierarchically ordered spherical description of environment.
A more detailed description of environment modeling can be found in [27].
These fragments are stored as Hierarchically Ordered Spherical description of Environment (HOSE) codes [22].
The relief is described by the numeric model of terrain of Institut Geographique National (IGN) on a 50 m grid step and the roughness of the land, by an interpretation of the database CORINE land cover by the Geographic Information System software MapInfo, coupled with a description of environment of each station by Météo-France.
This research further expands current descriptions of such environments by exploring Edgelands as therapeutic micro landscapes.
Existing architectural descriptions of learning environments do not precisely specify the interaction between this module and the rest of the learning system.
This paper traces evidence of the influence of the landscape on people's health, from ancient times to the present day, noting how access to nature and attractive green spaces has been a recurring theme in descriptions of therapeutic environments and associated healthy lifestyles.
"To be able to write like that when she was going through what she was going through is just astonishing – the sheer beauty of the language, the descriptions of the environment; she has such an amazing sense of place".
Frequent descriptions of the environment, especially in his straight and realistic style, echo ancient Celtic nature poems, which were scribbled in the margins of books by monks transcribing manuscripts, said Declan Kiberd, chairman of the English department at University College Dublin, and a former elementary school pupil of Mr. McGahern.
