A5006016107- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
- Rural development and sustainability
- Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Housing Market and Economics
- Landslides and related hazards
- Regional Development and Innovation
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Remote-Sensing Image Classification
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- Forest Management and Policy
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
2024
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2013-2023
Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
2014
Change detection from remote sensing data is often done by simple overlay of classified maps. However, such analyses can contain a significant proportion boundary errors, especially when combining different sensors. This paper presents protocol that allows reliable post-classification comparisons taking into account classification accuracies, landscape fragmentation, planimetric pixel sizes and grid origins. The proposed has been applied, with little extra effort, in fragmented agricultural...
This study illustrates an exploratory approach based on a Multiway Factor Analysis (MFA) to estimate rapidity of change in complex urban systems, “fast” and “slow” variables. The proposed methodology was applied 18 socioeconomic indicators long‐term (1960–2010) transformations 115 municipalities Athens’ metropolitan area (Greece), including demography, land‐use/planning, form functions. Athens regarded as dynamic with diversified structures functions at the local scale, expanding through...
Swimming pools are together an exemplificative outcome of urban sprawl and indicator socio-spatial polarizations in metropolitan regions. A comparative analysis the spatial distribution three Mediterranean cities (Barcelona, Rome Athens) provides alternative reading recent urbanization southern Europe, questioning supposed homogeneity socioeconomic patterns processes across region. In present study, structure underlying dispersed expansion these was studied using 53 background indicators at...
The climate change and increasing anthropogenic pressures are expected to limit the availability of water resources. Hence, active measures must be planned in vulnerable regions ensure a sustainable supply minimize environmental impacts. A pilot test was carried out Llobregat River (NE Spain) aiming provide useful procedure cope with severe droughts through indirect reuse. Reclaimed used restore minimum flow lower River, ensuring suitable downstream for Barcelona. monitoring performed assess...
The main purpose of this study is to present a methodology for mapping and monitoring temporal signatures Mediterranean crops over several years in irrigated areas, their inter‐annual dynamics. These goals were achieved by remote sensing using 36 Landsat images from 2002 2005. Four crop maps, one each year, with six agricultural categories thematic accuracy 93%, 95%, 96% 94% obtained hybrid classifier. A mean nine produced these highly accurate results, but the absence image growth period...
This article summarizes the protocol applied to analyse spatial consequences of diverse regional plans included in General Spatial Planning Catalonia (GSPC) municipalities since 1985. The main aims GSPC were achieve a more balanced distribution population, avoiding Barcelona metropolitan region congestion, coastal overcrowding and mountain areas depopulation, improve mobility infrastructures social welfare. methodology used was based on factor analysis that reduced 30 socioeconomic...
Given its unpredictable nature, urban sprawl in the Mediterranean region is considered an intriguing (and intricate) socioeconomic issue. Since 1970s, dispersion advanced rapidly southern Europe—irrespective of a city’s size and morphology—with urbanization rates growing faster than population. A comparison between metropolitan areas Barcelona, Rome Athens reveals how has occurred different ways three cities, highlighting peculiar relationships urbanization, land-use economic structures....
The present study illustrates an original methodology for estimating irrigation requirements and quantifying real water consumption in a long-established Mediterranean rural community (Delta Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain), combining data from remote sensing, field mapping situ measurements. Because of land fragmentation crop diversification, SPOT-5 imagery was used, given its spatial temporal resolution spectral attributes. Simultaneously, four flow meters were installed two representative...
Understanding the role of wildfire drivers is essential to implement more effective prevention strategies at regional scale and promote specific mitigation actions local scale. By considering municipalities as elementary analysis domain, present study investigates spatial distribution wildfires (1993–2015) in Valencian Community, a Mediterranean fire-prone area with variable climate regimes, heterogeneous landscapes increasing human pressure. Assuming that denser road network increases...
Dispersed urbanisation promotes complex relationships between rural areas and the urban fringe, with emerging new functions for peri-urban agriculture (PUA). Although PUA is a type of productive farming interest planning due to its recognised functions, comparative analyses are needed relate farm dynamics fringe landscape modifications in different socio-economic contexts. Given current limitation specific methodologies analyse dynamics, quantitative approach profiling types related...
Although Mediterranean cities have inherent differences on a local scale, together they offer kaleidoscopic overview of distinctive morphologies and patterns socio-spatial segregation. In this study, we explore the distribution residential swimming pools as indicators use land water at metropolitan in relation to recent changes structure large city (Athens, Greece). Our results indicate polarized spatial pools, still considered luxury affordable only for minor segment Greek population. The...