Projecting Regional Sustainability Trends Using Geospatial Analytics
| Autor: | James K. Lein |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Sustainable development
Geospatial analysis business.industry Geography Planning and Development Environmental resource management Time horizon computer.software_genre Data science Urban Studies Geography Sustainability Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Perpetuity Environmental impact assessment Sustainability organizations business computer Environmental quality |
| Zdroj: | Papers in Applied Geography. 1:119-127 |
| ISSN: | 2375-494X 2375-4931 |
| Popis: | By definition, sustainability is a decision-centric concept that seeks to identify a set of conditions the environmental system can support in perpetuity without experiencing functional degradation. Although comparatively simple to understand in the abstract, sustainability carries an implicit temporal dimension that frustrates measurement and assessment. Managing the balance between the ideals of economic development and environmental quality over what remains a poorly articulated time horizon, however, complicates the decision-making process and the realization of sustainability programs. Therefore, policy instruments with established sustainability goals require a means to track human progress and modify planning directives as regional development unfolds. In this article, the role of geospatial analytics is examined as one approach to guide the measurement, assessment, and projection of land use intensity metrics derived from moderate resolution satellite imagery. Geospatial analytics directs attentio... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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