Sentence examples for landscape expansion from inspiring English sources

A few spatial metrics, for example, Landscape Expansion Index (LEI), are calculated based on two-time-point data.

Thereafter, two different urban growth types, i.e., organic growth and spontaneous growth, were identified and simulated separately by introducing a landscape expansion index (LEI) that built on neighborhood density analysis.

Massive destruction of houses, huge amounts of rubbles, dramatic alterations of the landscape, expansion of the city in the unhabituated areas, rapid changes in Bam demography, and poor sanitation conditions created favorable conditions for the propagation of sand-fly vector and transmission of ACL (Sharifi et al. 2011).

In order to quantify the complexity in urban growth patterns and processes, based on the common boundary and Landscape Expansion Index (LEI) analysis, we developed six spatial rules to identify three urban growth types of infilling, edge-expansion and outlying in 2000 2008.

In this study, we propose an improved spatial metric, Multi-order Landscape Expansion Index (MLEI), to measure the expansion degree of newly grown urban patches by considering their relationships with old patches and their spatial context in the process of urban expansion.

New and Bigger The grand opening and dedication of the new University of Minnesota College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture expansion and building, designed by the acclaimed New York architect Steven Holl, is scheduled for Saturday in Minneapolis.

Though our study claimed reduction of natural landscapes and expansion of agriculture, contrarily, Alemayehu (2015) reported that there was expansion of forest land between 1973 and 2015 with corresponding reduction of cultivated land in Fagita Lekoma, Northwestern Ethiopia.

Remarkable shifts in landscapes and expansions of index plants are as follows.