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Southern Escambia County, Florida's Urban Forests

open access: yesEDIS, 2010
FOR231, a 12-page illustrated fact sheet by Francisco Escobedo, Sebastian Varela, Christina Staudhammer, and Benjamin Thompson, reports on analysis of tree data using USDA Forest Service's Urban Forest Effects (UFORE) model, to help urban foresters ...
Francisco Escobedo   +3 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Hoping the best, expecting the worst: Forecasting forest fire risk in Algeria using fuzzy logic and GIS

open access: yesTrees, Forests and People
Forest fires pose severe threats to ecosystems and communities globally, especially in vulnerable semi-arid regions like North Africa. Understanding the key factors influencing forest fire dynamics is essential for effective management and mitigation ...
Louiza Soualah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microclimate regulating functions of urban forests in Changchun City (north-east China) and their associations with different factors

open access: yesiForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2018
Microclimate regulating functions of urban trees and their associations with environmental factors and tree-growth characteristics are important for management and ecological evaluations.
Wang W   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the Effects of Urbanization on Soil Characteristics in Portland, Oregon\u27s Forest Park [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Studies by Dr. Nancy Broshot in Forest Park, an urban forest in Portland, Oregon, have shown high tree mortality and low concomitant recruitment. Lichen surveys conducted in 2013 revealed a shift in the lichen community to one typified by nitrogen ...
Hanson, Wes L.
core   +1 more source

Benchmark of machine learning methods for classification of a Sentinel-2 image [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Thanks to mainly ESA and USGS, a large bulk of free images of the Earth is readily available nowadays. One of the main goals of remote sensing is to label images according to a set of semantic categories, i.e. image classification.
Piragnolo, Marco   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Analyzing individual rent price ratios in eastern German agricultural land markets: A GAMLSS approach

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the Urban Forest Status in Bandar Lampung City

open access: yesJurnal Sylva Lestari, 2019
Urban forest is one form of green open space. Urban forests play an important role in maintaining the sustainability of ecological functions in a city. This role could only run optimally with the availability of urban forests.
Agung Permada Yusuf   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intelligent Mapping of Urban Forests from High-Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery Using Object-Based U-Net-DenseNet-Coupled Network

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2020
The application of deep learning techniques, especially deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), in the intelligent mapping of very high spatial resolution (VHSR) remote sensing images has drawn much attention in the remote sensing community. However,
Shaobai He   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

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