Natural forces and anthropogenic activities greatly alter land cover,deteriorate or alleviate forest fragmentation and affect *** land cover and forest fragmentation dynamics have become a focus of concern for natural...
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Natural forces and anthropogenic activities greatly alter land cover,deteriorate or alleviate forest fragmentation and affect *** land cover and forest fragmentation dynamics have become a focus of concern for natural resource management agencies and biodiversity conservation ***,there are few land cover datasets and forest fragmentation information available for the Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve(DHR)of Nepal to develop targeted biodiversity conservation *** this study,these gaps were filled by characterizing land cover and forest fragmentation trends in the *** five Landsat images between 1993 and 2018,a support vector machine algorithm was applied to classify six land cover classes:forest,grasslands,barren lands,agricultural and built-up areas,water bodies,and snow and ***,two landscape processmodels and four landscape metrics were used to depict the forest fragmentation *** showed that forest cover increased from 39.4%in 1993 to 39.8%in ***,grasslands decreased from 38.2%in 1993 to 36.9%in *** forest shrinkage was responsible for forest loss during the period,suggesting that the loss of forest cover reduced the connectivity between forest and nonforested *** was the dominant component of the forest restoration process,implying that it avoided the occurrence of isolated *** maximum value of edge density and perimeter area fractal dimension metrics and the minimum value of aggregation index were observed in 2011,revealing that forests in this year were most *** specific observations from the current analysis can help local authorities and local communities,who are highly dependent on forest resources,to better develop local forest management and biodiversity conservation plans.
Surface ozone can trigger many health problems for human (e.g. coughing, bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma), especially for children and the elderly. It also has harmful effects on plants (e.g. chlorosis, necrosis, an...
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Surface ozone can trigger many health problems for human (e.g. coughing, bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma), especially for children and the elderly. It also has harmful effects on plants (e.g. chlorosis, necrosis, and yield reduction). The United State (U.S.) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been monitoring surface ozone concentrations across the U.S. since 1980s. However, their stations are sparsely distributed and mainly in urban areas. Evaluation of surface ozone effects at any given locations in the U.S. requires spatial interpolation of ozone observations. In this study, we implemented two traditional spatial interpolation methods (i.e. triangulation-based linear interpolation and geostatistics-based method). One limitation of these two methods is their reliance on single-scene observations in constructing the spatial relationship, which is prone to influence of noisy observations and has large uncertainty. Deep learning, on the other hand, is capable of simulating common patterns (including complex spatial patterns) from a large amount of training samples. Therefore, we also implemented three deep learning algorithms for the spatial interpolation problem: mixture model network (MoNet), Convolutional Neural Network for Graphs (ChebNet), and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). The training and validation data of this study are the 2016 EPA hourly surface ozone observations within +/- 3-degree box centered at the Billings, Oklahoma station (USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program). The results showed that among the five methods, RNN and MoNet outperformed the two traditional spatial interpolation methods and RNN has the lowest validation error (mean absolute error: 2.82 ppb;standard deviation: 2.76 ppb). Finally, we used the integrated gradients method to analyze the attribution of RNN inputs on the surface ozone prediction. The results showed that surface ozone observation is the most important input feature followed by distance and absolute locations (i
Traffic state is an important indicator and usually used for describing road network performance. Traditional traffic theory modeled traffic performance from fluid dynamics and time-series analysis. However, these mod...
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Traffic state is an important indicator and usually used for describing road network performance. Traditional traffic theory modeled traffic performance from fluid dynamics and time-series analysis. However, these models cannot obtain satisfactory result under real traffic situatuion, espcially macroscopic environment. From priori knowledge, within a discrete time interval, many of the vehicles that traverse one road link would traverse neighbor road links as well. Thus it is reasonable to think that traffic state of urban road network has spatial association. Therefore, firstly this paper verifies spatial correlation of urban traffic state using spatial statistics theory and represents the validity of study, then based on the stationary temporal nature of urban traffic state during typical traffic time periods, uses spatial process model to describe it in different time periods. The study is tested on Nanchang’s urban road network with sparse road link travel speeds derived from approximately 1,200 floating cars (GPS-enabled taxis). The experiment results show that spatial process model is reasonable and practical to describe complex urban traffic state from macroscopic view during fixed time period and especially, it is conceptually simple and thus, easy to achieve in practice. Therefore, this study can contribute to mine pontienal traffic information from spatial perspective and provide a new research idea for traffic state analysis and other relative traffic studies.
Traffic state is an important indicator and usually used for describing road network *** traffic theory modeled traffic performance from fluid dynamics and time-series ***,these models cannot obtain satisfactory resul...
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Traffic state is an important indicator and usually used for describing road network *** traffic theory modeled traffic performance from fluid dynamics and time-series ***,these models cannot obtain satisfactory result under real traffic situatuion,espcially macroscopic *** priori knowledge,within a discrete time interval,many of the vehicles that traverse one road link would traverse neighbor road links as *** it is reasonable to think that traffic state of urban road network has spatial ***,firstly this paper verifies spatial correlation of urban traffic state using spatial statistics theory and represents the validity of study,then based on the stationary temporal nature of urban traffic state during typical traffic time periods,uses spatial process model to describe it in different time *** study is tested on Nanchang's urban road network with sparse road link travel speeds derived from approximately 1,200 floating cars(GPS-enabled taxis).The experiment results show that spatial process model is reasonable and practical to describe complex urban traffic state from macroscopic view during fixed time period and especially,it is conceptually simple and thus,easy to achieve in ***,this study can contribute to mine pontienal traffic information from spatial perspective and provide a new research idea for traffic state analysis and other relative traffic studies.
This study discusses the theoretical foundation of the application of spatial hedonic approaches-the hedonic approach employing spatial econometrics or/and spatial statistics-to benefits evaluation. The study highligh...
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This study discusses the theoretical foundation of the application of spatial hedonic approaches-the hedonic approach employing spatial econometrics or/and spatial statistics-to benefits evaluation. The study highlights the limitations of the spatial econometrics approach since it uses a spatial weight matrix that is not employed by the spatial statistics approach. Further, the study presents empirical analyses by applying the spatial Autoregressive Error model (SAEM), which is based on the spatial econometrics approach, and the spatial process model (SPM), which is based on the spatial statistics approach. SPMs are conducted based on both isotropy and anisotropy and applied to different mesh sizes. The empirical analysis reveals that the estimated benefits are quite different, especially between isotropic and anisotropic SPM and between isotropic SPM and SAEM;the estimated benefits are similar for SAEM and anisotropic SPM. The study demonstrates that the mesh size does not affect the estimated amount of benefits. Finally, the study provides a confidence interval for the estimated benefits and raises an issue with regard to benefit evaluation.
Large-scale transportation projects such as the construction of a commuter railway accessible to metropolises have a significant regional impact. This study attempts to measure this impact using spatial statistical mo...
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Large-scale transportation projects such as the construction of a commuter railway accessible to metropolises have a significant regional impact. This study attempts to measure this impact using spatial statistical models and land price data. First, dynamic changes in the land price are analysed and the so-called announcement effect is presented using the spatial interpolation techniques. Second, various types of land price models are constructed by employing the existing methods of spatial econometrics and geostatistics;their estimates and project benefits are compared and discussed, particularly from the viewpoint of policy implications.
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