Geocomputation, Sustainability and Environmental Planning

Book Overview

Sustainable Development: Concepts and Methods for Its Application in Urban and Environmental Planning.- Urban Land-use Projections Supporting Adaptation Strategies to Climate Changes in the Coastal Zone.- A Multiple Criteria Heuristic Solution Method for Locating Near to Optimal Contiguous and Compact Sites in Raster Maps.- Renewable Energy Sources: The Case of Wind Farms Analysis.- Identifying Viewshed: New Approaches to Visual Impact Assessment.- Agricultural Terraced Landscapes in the Province of Trieste (Northeastern Italy).- Estimation of Population Density of Census Sectors Using Remote Sensing Data and Spatial Regression.- Using Environmental Geostatistics for the Geochemical Characterization of Soils from the Polluted Site of National Interest of Tito (PZ - Italy).- Evaluating the Impact of Resolution on the Predictions of an Air Quality Model over Madrid area (Spain).- Spatial OnLine Analytical Processing of Geographic Data through the Google Earth Interface.- Nonlinear Black-Box Models for Short-Term Forecasting of Air Temperature in the Town of Palermo.- Automatic Mapping and Classification of Spatial Environmental Data.- Detecting Landforms Using Quantitative Radar Roughness Characterization and Spectral Mixing Analysis.- A framework of map comparison methods to evaluate geosimulation models from a geospatial perspective.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642267491
• ISBN13: 9783642267499
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"