Over the last decade an increasing number of free and open source software projects have
been founded that concentrate on develo** several types of software for geographic data …

Geographic Information tools (GI tools) have become an essential component of research in
landscape ecology. In this article we review the use of GIS (Geographic Information …

The Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA), the largest global rainforest on earth, contains nearly
30% of the rainforest on earth. Given the regional complexity and dynamics, there are large …

Studies on land use and land cover changes (LULCC) have been a great concern due to
their contribution to the policies formulation and strategic plans in different areas and at …

Remote sensing images obtained by remote sensing are a key source of data for studying
large-scale geographic areas. From 2013 onwards, a new generation of land remote …

There is fine-scale spatial heterogeneity in key vegetation properties including leaf-area
index (LAI) and biomass in treeless northern peatlands, and hyperspectral drone data with …

Context Spatial patterns of CH 4 fluxes can be modeled with remotely sensed data
representing land cover, soil moisture and topography. Spatially extensive CH 4 flux …

Regionalization is the task of partitioning a set of contiguous areas into spatial clusters or
regions. The theoretical and empirical literature focusing on regionalization is extensive, yet …

Time in geographic information systems has been a research theme for more than two
decades, resulting in comprehensive theoretical work, many research prototypes and …

We present the lulcc software package, an object-oriented framework for land use change
modelling written in the R programming language. The contribution of the work is to resolve …