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Examining the Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Determinants of Land Urbanization in Prefecture-level Cities, China
Examining the spatiotemporal dynamics and determinants of land urbanization is critical for promoting healthy urban development and the rational use of land resources. Based on the dataset consisting of land u...
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Visual method of analyzing COVID-19 case information using spatio-temporal objects with multi-granularity
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is continuing to spread globally and still poses a great threat to human health. Since its outbreak, it has had catastrophic effects on human society. A visual method of ana...
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Crop Pattern and Status Monitoring
Statistical approaches are traditionally used in approximating crop pattern and status monitoring which has limitations in timeliness and precision. Remote sensing has been increasingly adopted in monitoring c...
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Geospatial Land Use and Land Cover Data for Improving Agricultural Area Sampling Frames
This chapter describes the development of an automated stratification method, based on readily available geospatial Cropland Data Layers and its integration into the USDA National Agricultural Statistic Servic...
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Spatio-temporal Pattern Characteristics of Relationship Between Urbanization and Economic Development at County Level in China
The relationship between China’s urbanization and economic development (RCUED) is an important concern nationwide. As important actors in regional strategy and policy, county-level regions have played an incre...
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Urban metabolic efficiencies and elasticities of Chinese cities
Urban metabolism is a complex system of materials, energy, population and environment, which usually can be measured by the Emergy Synthesis (ES) and the Slacks-Based Measure (SBM) approach. In this paper, by ...
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Altitudinal changes of surface pollen and vegetation on the north slope of the Middle Tianshan Mountains, China
To provide information on vegetation patterns and altitudinal distributions of pollen assemblage in surface soil layers, their complicated relationships in a dryland mountain-basin system in northwestern China...
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Urban metabolism based on emergy and slack based model: A case study of Bei**g, China
The key to studying urban sustainable development depends on quantifying stores, efficiencies of urban metabolisms and capturing urban metabolisms’ mechanisms. This paper builds up the metabolic emergy account...
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Urban economic cluster template and its dynamics of Bei**g, China
Economic clusters have been a central focus of current urban and regional research, policies and practices. However, a methodology to identify and analyze policy-relevant economic cluster dynamics is still not...
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Glacier meltwater runoff in China and its nourishment to river
Alpine glaciers are the natural solid reservoirs that releases amount of meltwater to supply streams every year. Glacier meltwater, adjusting the yearly variation of stream runoff and making it trend to wards ...
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Streamflow characteristics of the Eastern Qinghai-**zang Plateau
The eastern Qinghai-**zang (Tibet) Plateau is the headwater area for many large Asian rivers. Permafrost occurs above 4,200 m a.s.l. and glaciers occupy the summits and high valleys of the east-west trending m...