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An Analysis of the Factors Affecting Urban Livability Case Study: District 8 of Tabriz [PDF]

open access: yesبرنامه‌ریزی توسعه شهری و منطقه‌ای, 2018
The concept of livability has emerged alongside sustainability as a slogan in public discourse and planning. Planners and policymakers in relation to the creation or preservation of cities mention the concept of livability as a guiding principle for ...
Firooz Jafari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Walking-Centric Urban Livability Assessment of Baguio City using Open-Source GIS Data [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Urban livability measures how well a city can support the well-being of its residents. In population dense, rapidly urbanized cities, assessing livability while considering walkability is important in policy making and urban planning.
G. M. M. Abacahan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

S3ViT: self-supervised spectral vision transformer framework for hyperspectral unmixing

open access: yesFrontiers in Remote Sensing
Hyperspectral unmixing aims to decompose each pixel in a hyperspectral image into a set of constituent endmembers and their corresponding abundances. Recent deep learning based approaches have demonstrated strong performance in capturing both spectral ...
Dario Scilla   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multimodal Classification of Urban Micro-Events [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this paper we seek methods to effectively detect urban micro-events. Urban micro-events are events which occur in cities, have limited geographical coverage and typically affect only a small group of citizens.
Awad George   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Computer Vision Corrections Enhance UAV-Based Retrievals in Shallow Waters

open access: yesIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Traditional shallow water (<5 m) survey methods are costly and limited in coverage due to logistical challenges in deploying imaging sensors in remote locations.
Dario Scilla   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Special Issue: landscape urbanism and green infrastructure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
With the notion of landscape urbanism long neglected, interlinkages between ecology and architecture in the built environment are becoming visible. Yet, the diversity in understandings of the interconnections between cities and nature is the starting ...
Panagopoulos, Thomas
core   +1 more source

Livability Assessment of Urban Communities considering the Preferences of Different Age Groups

open access: yesComplexity, 2020
Livability is one of the major guiding principles for urban planning and policymaking, of which the definition and evaluation have become the crucial research topic.
Xiaojin Liang, Yaolin Liu, Tianqi Qiu
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial heterogeneity in and distributional characteristics of rural ecological livability in China--The case of Fujian Province.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
With the outbreak of COVID-19, the importance of rural areas has been gradually highlighted, and the importance of rural ecological livability has been gradually recognized.
Xiaoli Jiang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying mangrove carbon assimilation rates using UAV imagery

open access: yesScientific Reports
Mangrove forests are recognized as one of the most effective ecosystems for storing carbon. In drylands, mangroves operate at the extremes of environmental gradients and, in many instances, offer one of the few opportunities for vegetation-based ...
Javier Blanco-Sacristán   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The assessment of traffic livability, including local effects at home, during trips and at the destination, based on the individual activity pattern and trip behaviour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The environmental quality of the living environment is mainly linked to the direct and indirect impact of traffic in the neighborhood of the dwellings.
Botteldooren, Dick   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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