Manchuria and the outer dependencies of China are included. There are numerous clear maps, many excellent illustrations and copious bibliographies. Prof. Cressey has succeeded in writing geography without dullness, and given a survey of lasting value.. 1935 Nature Publishing Group...
How to maximise the benefits of the investments? The answer is simple: the data should not only be provided to the professionals but also to the general public. The Finnish National Land Survey has made its maps available through the Internet via the MapSite service. Since its launch in ...
BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Satellite remote sensing imagery with high resolution has been used in China's ongoing third national land survey, said officials Friday. Surveyors have used satellite imagery with a resolution of one meter as base maps, which can distinguish objects that measure te...
The largest survey maps were 1:600 and 1:1200 (imperial scales for Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Kowloon) and the NT (outside New Kowloon), along with 1:1000 (metric scale for all of Hong Kong). Using planning vocabulary, the colonial British Hong Kong government used a form of ...
Figure 2. Photos taken in the field survey. (a) Abandoned land. (b) Paddy rice. (c) Maize. (d) Peanut. Figure 3. Regions of abandoned land and non-abandoned land on Google Earth images. (a–c) are images of abandoned land regions, and (d–f) are images of non-abandoned land...
The authors express deep gratitude to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) for providing satellite images. Funding This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. Author information Authors and Affiliations Department ...
China’s land resources and land-use change: insights from the 1996 land survey.Land Use Policy, 20 (2): 87–107. Article Google Scholar Lin X G, Yin R, Zhang H Yet al., 2004. Changes of soil microbiological properties caused by land use changing from rice-wheat rotation to ...
Data used in this research include: a provincial administrative zoning map, three land use maps of China in 1980, 1995 and 2010 and two maps of vegetation carbon and SOC densities in China. The Chinese provincial administrative zoning map was provided by the National Geomatics Center of China....
Image by the United States Geological Survey. Introduction: Dozens of land areas of the Earth sit below current sea level. The lowest land area is the shoreline of the Dead Sea Depression in Israel, Jordan and Syria. It is approximately 413 meters or 1355 feet below sea level. The largest...
Visual interpretation, field survey and a large amount of auxiliary information were applied during the process of building the national land use/cover database of China using remote sensing techniques. The 2010 update, based on the 2008 NLUD-C, has inherited and developed this systematic remote ...