Land constitutes the most important character for sustainable development in a region. Rapid urbanization has become an area of crucial concern against the bonanza of urban ecology. The land use pattern of any urban area hints not only its immediate current space requirements of the inheriting...

Irrigation scheduling and automation are usually conducted using models that are based on the measurement of the soil water content. In this sense, water balance has established itself as a good indicator of the growth and development of crops and is currently used in several automatic...

Facial recognition technology (FRT) has emerged as an attractive solution to address many contemporary needs for identification and the verification of identity claims. It brings together the promise of other biometric systems, which attempt to tie identity to individually distinctive features...