The impact of remote sensing on the everyday lives of mobile users in urban areas

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Kamilaris ◽  
Andreas Pitsillides
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Mobile Users ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Impact

Laws and How They Affect the Everyday Lives of People with Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
Rhoda Olkin
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Disability Laws ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Impact

For persons who are minorities, the impact of laws can be very directly experienced in day-to-day life. The myriad laws related to disability are scattered across many laws and throughout many agencies and can be hard to locate. Some of the laws, rules and regulations help, but some also hinder, the daily lives of the disabled. How the labyrinth of laws places a burden on people with disabilities is highlighted. There are four activities in this chapter. The first has students focus on laws that affect their everyday lives. In the second activity the concept of ‘separate but not equal’ is the focus. A third activity entails a comparison of social justice versus distributive justice as it applies to disability. In the fourth activity a game of ‘Eye Spy’ concentrates on the application of disability laws.

Fighting for Atlanta

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Earl J. Hess
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Open Field ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Confederate Army ◽  
Rugged Terrain ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Army Of Tennessee ◽  
The Impact

As William T. Sherman’s Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fortifications located to take advantage of rugged terrain. While the Confederate Army of Tennessee consistently acted on the defensive, digging eighteen lines of earthworks from May to September, the Federals used fieldworks both defensively and offensively. With 160,000 troops engaged on both sides and hundreds of miles of trenches dug, fortifications became a defining factor in the Atlanta campaign battles. These engagements took place on topography ranging from Appalachian foothills to the clay fields of Georgia’s piedmont. This book examines how commanders adapted their operations to the physical environment, how the environment in turn affected their movements, and how Civil War armies altered the terrain through the science of field fortification. It also illuminates the impact of fighting and living in ditches for four months on the everyday lives of both Union and Confederate soldiers. The Atlanta campaign represents one of the best examples of a prolonged Union invasion deep into southern territory, and it marked another important transition in the conduct of war from open field battles to fighting from improvised field fortifications.

Urban Land Use Changes by the Integration of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Dynamics Modeling

2013 ◽  
Vol 726-731 ◽  
pp. 4645-4649
Author(s):  
Jia Hua Zhang ◽  
Cui Hao ◽  
Feng Mei Yao
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Logistic Model ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Ratio Test ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Model ◽  
The Impact

We developed an approach to assess urban land use changes that incorporates socio-economic and environmental factors with multinomial logistic model, remote sensing data and GIS, and to quantify the impact of macro variables on land use of urban areas for the years 1990, 2000 and 2010 in Binhai New Area, China. The Markov transition matrix was designed to integrate with multinomial logistic model to illustrate and visualize the predicted land use surface. The multinomial logistic model was evaluated by means of Likelihood ratio test and Pseudo R-Square and showed a relatively good simulation. The prediction map of 2010 showed accurate rates 78.54%, 57.25% and 70.38%, respectively.

Message Me: Temporality, Location and Everyday Technologies

2008 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Gregg ◽  
Catherine Driscoll
Keyword(s):  
Digital Culture ◽  
Digital Literacies ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Business And Management

In this article, we investigate the impact of online platforms on the everyday lives of users, including how the interests of those users affect the forms of emerging digital culture. In doing this, we stress temporality and location as crucial to digital literacies of various kinds and thus undo some of the clichés about freedom, constraint and opportunity associated with various web platforms. We also pay heed to the complex cultural literacies at work in online life at a time when their benefits seem dangerously poised to be instrumentalised for business and management ends. Finally, we stress the significance of the forms of support and solace offered in online venues that exceed, when they don't actually resist, efforts to translate them into the more commercially recognised languages of profit and productivity.

The use of assistive technology in the everyday lives of young people living with dementia and their caregivers. Can a simple remote control make a difference?

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 2011-2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Jentoft ◽  
Torhild Holthe ◽  
Cathrine Arntzen
Keyword(s):  
Remote Control ◽  
Young People ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTBackground:This study was a part of a larger study exploring the impact of assistive technology on the lives of young people living with dementia (YPD). This paper focuses on one of the most useful devices, the simple remote control (SRC). The objective was to explore the reason why the SRC is significant and beneficial in the everyday lives of YPD and their caregivers.Methods:This qualitative longitudinal study had a participatory design. Eight participants received an SRC. The range for using it was 0–15 months. In-depth interviews and observations were conducted at baseline and repeated every third month up to 18 months. A situated learning approach was used in the analysis to provide a deeper understanding of the significance and use of SRC.Results:Young people having dementia spend a substantial amount of time alone. Watching television was reported to be important, but handling remote controls was challenging and created a variety of problems. YPD learned to use SRC, which made important differences in the everyday lives of all family members. Comprehensive support from caregivers and professionals was important for YPD in the learning process.Conclusions:The SRC was deemed a success because it solved challenges regarding the use of television in everyday lives of families. The design was recognizable and user-friendly, thus allowing YPD to learn its operation. Access to professional support and advice regarding assistive technology is vital for establishing a system for follow-up and continued collaboration to make future adaptations and adjustments.

Unlawful instruments and goods: Afghanistan, culture and the Taliban

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
Jim Shorthose
Keyword(s):  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
Policy Content ◽  
The Impact

This brief paper offers a dialectical account of the cultural policies devised by the Taliban during their rule, which led to the banning of ‘unlawful goods and instruments' such as musical instruments and films. It suggests 3 aspects to this dialectical account. Firstly, an analysis of the global context against which these policies were devised and conducted. Secondly, an analysis of the specific policy content of the various cultural agencies involved. Thirdly, an analysis of the impact these factors had on the everyday lives of Afghan people and communities. It tries to show in detail how these 3 aspects stand in a dialectical relationship to each other. It is argued that such an approach contributes to a greater understanding of the meanings behind such actions to takes us beyond any initial repudiation of the Taliban's cultural repression.

scholarly journals Capability of Remote Sensing Images to Distinguish the Urban Surface Materials: A Case Study of Venice City

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 3959
Author(s):  
Rosa Maria Cavalli
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Spectral Range ◽  
Spectral Resolution ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Spectral Characteristics ◽  
Urban Surface ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Surface Materials ◽  
The Impact

Many countries share an effort to understand the impact of growing urban areas on the environment. Spatial, spectral, and temporal resolutions of remote sensing images offer unique access to this information. Nevertheless, their use is limited because urban surface materials exhibit a great diversity of types and are not well spatially and spectrally distinguishable. This work aims to quantify the effect of these spatial and spectral characteristics of urban surface materials on their retrieval from images. To avoid other sources of error, synthetic images of the historical center of Venice were analyzed. A hyperspectral library, which characterizes the main materials of Venice city and knowledge of the city, allowed to create a starting image at a spatial resolution of 30 cm and spectral resolution of 3 nm and with a spectral range of 365–2500 nm, which was spatially and spectrally resampled to match the characteristics of most remote sensing sensors. Linear spectral mixture analysis was applied to every resampled image to evaluate and compare their capabilities to distinguish urban surface materials. In short, the capability depends mainly on spatial resolution, secondarily on spectral range and mixed pixel percentage, and lastly on spectral resolution; impervious surfaces are more distinguishable than pervious surfaces. This analysis of capability behavior is very important to select more suitable remote sensing images and/or to decide the complementarity use of different data.

scholarly journals The Use of Remote Sensing and GIS to Study Land Use Changes in Barka Wilaya, Oman

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Eyad H Fadda ◽  
Fatemah Al Shebli ◽  
Ayshah Al Kabi
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Land Degradation ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Fertile Land

Many studies house indicated the increase of the proportion of urban areas over the arable land in many provinces of the Sultanate of Oman. This came as a result of urban growth and development processes taking place since the era of the Renaissance which started in 1970. Consequently, spatial variation in land use is an important issue to be taken into consideration, because lands are being converted to be less productive, due to the lack of raw soil, vegetation, and water as a result of human exploitation of the limited resources in different ways, in addition to the natural factors of droughts and floods and all that will eventually lead to land degradation. Barka province (wilayat) in al Batinah Governorate is one of the provinces, which has been affected by land cover/land use changes due to several reasons. Therefore, this study will focus on the determination of land use changes, whether commercial or residential that have been occurred in the province, in addition to the loss of agricultural areas and fertile land during the period from 1987 to 2015. Remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) were utilized in order to delineate and to determine the cause of shrinking in the arable land and fertile land. Satellite images were used to detect the change in land use/land cover by applying selective digital image processing techniques such as supervised classification and change detection. Thematic maps were prepared using GIS software with attribute data about the land uses in the study area, which highlights and show the impact of urban growth on land degradation.

scholarly journals Local Drivers of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Quantifying the Impact through a Remote Sensing Approach in Brisbane

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 2270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Golam Mortoja ◽  
Tan Yigitcanlar
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
The Impact

Urban expansions to adjoining greenfield sites, particularly in metropolitan regions, have become a global occurrence. Such urbanization practice results in a significant loss in ecosystem services and triggers climate change—where these changes in land cover and emissions of certain pollutants are the fundamental drivers of climate change. Despite its crucial importance, little is known on how to quantify the impact of local drivers on anthropogenic climate change. This study aims to address the question of how the impacts of local drivers on anthropogenic climate change can be measured. The study utilizes a remote sensing approach to investigate the impacts of a period of over 30 years (1989–2019) in Brisbane, Australia and its adjoining local government areas. The methodological steps of the study are two-fold. First, we measure the greenfield development and corresponding ecosystem services losses and, then, we quantify the risk of such losses attributable to direct and indirect anthropogenic climate change. The findings of the study reveal the followings: (a) the utilized remote sensing method is a useful technique in quantifying the impacts of climate change; (b) over the last 30-year period, Brisbane and its adjoining areas encountered a total loss of about USD 4.5 billion in ecosystem services, due to direct and indirect anthropogenic climate change; (c) peri-urban areas encountered the biggest losses in ecosystem service values; (d) peri-urban areas experienced the highest greenhouse gas emission production levels, and; (e) ecosystem services should be backed up by robust urban management policies—this is critical for mitigating climate change.

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