Characterizing the physical properties of urban land cover from satellite remote sensing makes it possible to map the form and spatial extent of urban land cover/use and to quantify changes in their form and extent.
The overall aim of this paper is to evaluate the changing spatial extent of seaward land expansion in 16 selected coastal megacities.
The spatial extent of dry lands is over ⅓ of the earth's land mass [35] and global climate change is expected to increase the variability of precipitation, with more intense storms and droughts a likely consequence [36].
Our historical analyses of population density (people·km−2) and the spatial extent of croplands (% of total land surface area under crops) in the areas encompassing each of our watersheds show that the North American sites had a much shorter and less intense history of landscape modification over the last three centuries than the European sites (Figure 4).
Lyon, B., and A. G. Barnston, 2005: ENSO and the spatial extent of interannual precipitation extremes in tropical land areas.
Nonetheless, during the participatory activity, males and females had different perceptions of space or spatial extent of the landscape as well as land marks in the landscapes important for delivering ecosystem services.
As drains impact on the carbon dynamics and ecosystem function of peatlands, this technique could be a cost-effective way to identify and map the spatial extent of peatland drains over large area to refine land use and management plans.
to estimate the spatial extent of cropland (as a percent of the total land area) in the grid cell nearest to each lake, as well as the average cropland extent for all lakes in each continent.
This paper developed an alternative method for delimiting the spatial extent of recreation activity in the landscape by integrating the assessment of land development intensity into the approach to assess accessibility of recreation activity.
The spatial extent of the GDS model corresponds to the current managed lands within the GDSNWR and the Dismal Swamp State Park covering about 54,000 ha.
The increased spatial extent of commercial timber harvesting is modifying forest structure across the land base and may thus compromise the availability of large trees at the landscape scale.
