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Investigation and Analysis of Geohazards Induced by the 2015 Nepal Earthquake Based on Remote Sensing Method
The devastating earthquake that occurred in Nepal on April 25, 2015, caused widespread damage and ravaged rural communities and economy. It triggered numerous geohazards in the steep mountains and hills throug...
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Land Use/Cover Change and Its Eco-environmental Responses in Nepal: An Overview
Nepal is a typical mountain country. Its eco-environment has been reported highly sensitive to land use/cover change (LUCC) related to human activities, natural disasters, and climate change. This book collect...
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Land Cover Change and Its Driving Forces in Nepal Since 1990
Nepal is a typically mountainous landlocked country. In recent years, land cover in Nepal has changed significantly due to climate changes, population growth and economic development. This study used four peri...
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Land Cover Map** and Its Spatial Pattern Analysis in Nepal
Nepal, located in a unique transition zone spanning from plains to mountains and then to the plateau, is characterized by diverse and complex land cover. Based on an object-oriented method and decision tree cl...
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Spatio-Temporal Patterns of the Net Primary Productivity in Southern Himalayas During 2001–2015
Vegetation in southern Himalayas is susceptible to both extrinsic (e.g., climate change) and intrinsic (e.g., earthquakes) factors. Analysis of spatio-temporal patterns and variability of net primary productiv...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effects of Visual Variables on the Perception of Distance in Off-Screen Landmarks: Size, Color Value, and Crispness
Maps on mobile devices provide the convenience of accessing spatial information of the surroundings. They also raise the concern that the small screen size impacts user’s acquisition of spatial knowledge as th...
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Cross-Border Governance: The Merger of Guangzhou and Foshan
Two metropolises in Guangdong Province, Guangzhou and Foshan, are now the most integrated urban areas in the Pearl River Delta. In the process of the merging of them, the interaction and cooperation between th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Progressive Transmission of Vector Data Based on Changes Accumulation Model
The progressive transmission of map data over World Wide Web provides the users with a self-adaptive strategy to access remote data. It not only speeds up the web transfer but also offers an efficient navigati...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Image Analysis and Photogrammetric Engineering Integrated Shadow Detection Model
A model of automatically detecting the building shadows in high resolution aerial remote sensing image is introduced in this paper. The space coordinates of the shadows are first computed using photogrammetric...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Double Vagueness: Effect of Scale on the Modelling of Fuzzy Spatial Objects
In the identification of landscape features vagueness arises from the fact that the attributes and parameters that make up a landscape vary over space and scale. In most existing studies, these two kinds of va...
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The Floating Body and the Disappearing Border
The 1980s witnessed the greatest exodus of Chinese poets to the West in the history of modern Chinese literature. Many major poets in the contemporary Chinese literary scene, such as Bei Dao, Gu Cheng, Duo Duo...
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Ethnic Entrepreneurship, Social Networks, and the Enclave
It is said that immigrants turn to entrepreneurship when, blocked from the mainstream, they can find a protected niche in the ethnic enclave. Canadian employers do not recognize the credentials of immigrant pr...
