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Testing planetary urbanisation: Siberia’s trans-scalar spatial regime of oil production

City, Territory and Architecture, 2022
This paper analyses the extended urbanization of oil production in Siberia in order to test Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid’s theory of planetary urbanization.
Roi Salgueiro Barrio, Conor O’Shea
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Unveiling Sri Lanka’s Wilderness: GIS-Based Modelling of Wilderness Attributes

Land
This research presents the first detailed national wilderness mapping project conducted in Sri Lanka, aiming to identify and assess the spatial distribution of wilderness areas in the country. The study utilises a GIS-based Wilderness Quality Index (WQI),
Uthpala Mudalige, Steve Carver
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Optimal land cover mapping and change analysis in northeastern oregon using landsat imagery. [PDF]

, 2015
The necessity for the development of repeatable, efficient, and accurate monitoring of land cover change is paramount to successful management of our planet’s natural resources. This study evaluated a number of remote sensing methods for classifying land
Campbell, Michael J, Congalton, Russell G., Hartter, Joel N.   +2 more
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Developing a Wilderness Quality Index for Continental Europe

Land
This paper presents an updated wilderness quality map, WQI 2.0, for Europe, which extends the existing map (WQI 1.0) to include non-EU states in Eastern Europe.
Iurii Strus, Stephen Carver
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« Naturalité » : concepts et méthodes appliqués à la conservation de la nature

Cybergeo, 2018
In the current context of an increasing human encroachment on landscapes, the identification and cartography of the last remaining wild areas are increasingly challenging in the field of nature conservation.
Adrien Guette, Jonathan Carruthers-Jones, Laurent Godet, Marc Robin   +3 more
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Global conservation significance of Ecuador's Yasuní National Park.

PLoS ONE, 2010
BackgroundThe threats facing Ecuador's Yasuní National Park are emblematic of those confronting the greater western Amazon, one of the world's last high-biodiversity wilderness areas.
Margot S Bass, Matt Finer, Clinton N Jenkins, Holger Kreft, Diego F Cisneros-Heredia, Shawn F McCracken, Nigel C A Pitman, Peter H English, Kelly Swing, Gorky Villa, Anthony Di Fiore, Christian C Voigt, Thomas H Kunz   +12 more
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Employment, Utilization, and Development of Airborne Laser Scanning in Fenno-Scandinavian Archaeology—A Review

Remote Sensing, 2020
This paper gives a presentation of how airborne laser scanning (ALS) has been adopted in archaeology in the North over the period 2005–2019. Almost two decades have passed since ALS first emerged as a potential tool to add to the archaeologist’s toolbox.
Ole Risbøl, Daniel Langhammer, Esben Schlosser Mauritsen, Oula Seitsonen   +3 more
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Mapping the concept, content and outcome of wilderness therapy for childhood cancer survivors: protocol for a scoping review

BMJ Open, 2019
Introduction Long-term childhood cancer survivors are at risk for frailty and have significant health-related issues in adulthood. Various health promotion interventions have been proposed to enhance quality of life including wilderness therapy, which ...
Miek C Jong, Anne Lown, Winnie Schats, Heather Rose Otto, Mats Jong   +4 more
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Research on wilderness area identification and distribution of spatial characteristics based on Boolean-multi-indicator evaluation approach —a case study of wilderness areas in Henan Province, China

Frontiers in Environmental Science
Under the background of global anthropocene and climate change, as a key spatial unit to maintain the function of native ecosystems, the study of precise identification and spatial distribution of wilderness is of great scientific value to enhance the ...
Yaping Ren, Shuyi Wang, Bifeng Cui, Yu Ding, Runxiang Cao   +4 more
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GIS and Introductory Environmental Engineering: A Way to Fold GIS into an Already-Existing Course [PDF]

, 2013
The use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) was implemented in the upper-division undergraduate technical elective Introduction to Environmental Engineering at Harvey Mudd College.
Cardenas, Mary P., Kelley, David Wayne, Roberts, Warren   +2 more
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