Land near Washington Monument May Be Sinking More Than Expected, Survey FindsThe National Geodetic Survey has discovered that land on the Mall near the Washington Monument may have sunk by two millimeters, possibly as a result of August's 5.8 magnitude earthquake.MICHAEL E. RUANE...
The U.S. Geological Survey has large-scale topographic maps covering virtually all of the United States. State highway departments are good sources of state, county, and other maps. County offices contain thousands of plats, which are a matter of public record. If, however, a map or plat ...
The TGSI was used to assess the grain size and texture of the soils in the mining areas and also to highlight the disorganization of the granular classes. Negative or near-zero TGSI values represent vegetation cover and water, while values close to 0.20 indicate large quantities of sand. (Xi...
They're intelligent and hard-working,yet nameless and underpaid. ” The term also speaks to their helplessness in a world governed by the law of the jungle—only the strongest survive. A survey in Lian's another book published this year,Ant Tribe Ⅱ,found nearly 30 percent of...
To do so, we used the South African National Land Cover (SANLC) 2018 raster dataset, which classifies land-use into 73 different land cover classes. The raster was clipped to the study area and imported into QGIS to determine the number of pixels of each of the 73 land cover classes ...
Furthermore, to standardize the classification, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) land-cover classification system was contextualized and adopted (Hillel and Hatfield, 2005). Thus, five land-cover classes were identified in the study area. These are the built-up, vegetation, urban farmland...
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These land cover classes comprise barren land, built-up areas, vegetation, and water bodies, as described in Table 3. The changes in LULC of an urban area can be attributed to various human activities and urbanization. This change can be obtained by classifying satellite data through remote ...
But the school played ball and made and submitted a survey. [But o]nce the survey had been completed, on May 7, [the school] requested a hearing date for its appeal to the ZBA. However, the ZBA failed to respond to this request, and the project came to a standstill. Subsequently,...
Identified classes included commercial cultivation, subsistence cultivation, shrub/grassland, thicket/dense bush, bare/exposed soil, eroded land, residential, mines and quarries, and water bodies. Fig. 3 Five-year interval wet season LULC of the Greater Sekhukhune District Municipality from 1990 to ...