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Beniamino Murgante

Beniamino Murgante is Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Basilicata (Southern Italy). His main research interests are urban and regional planning with a focus on the use of spatial information for developing decision support systems based on multi-criteria evaluation, fuzzy sets, rough sets and geo-statistical methods. He has published papers and books in the field of spatial analysis, modelling, geocomputation and planning. He has been member of scientific committees of several international conferences and he has been Chair/Co-chair of several international workshops.

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Quantifying Urban Sprawl With Spatial Autocorrelation Techniques Using Multi-Temporal Satellite Data

This study deals with the use of satellite TM multi-temporal data coupled with statistical analyses to quantitatively estimate urban expansion and soil consumption for small...

Quantifying Urban Sprawl with Spatial Autocorrelation Techniques using Multi-Temporal Satellite Data

This study deals with the use of satellite TM multi-temporal data coupled with statistical analyses to quantitatively estimate urban expansion and soil consumption for small...

Geographic Information Analysis for Sustainable Development and Economic Planning: New Technologies

Spatial analytical techniques and geographical analysis and modelling methods are required in order to analyse data and to facilitate the decision process at all levels. Old...

Wiki-Planning: The Experience of Basento Park In Potenza (Italy)

Today, 2.0 information technologies undoubtedly represent the most important media. The main innovation is the transition from a one-way approach where citizens are only...

Urban Versus Rural: The Decrease of Agricultural Areas and the Development of Urban Zones Analyzed with Spatial Statistics

Until a few decades ago it was very easy to distinguish between city and country: in most cases the edge was defined by defensive barriers. In recent times, the relationships...

Urban Versus Rural: The Decrease of Agricultural Areas and the Development of Urban Zones Analyzed with Spatial Statistics

Until a few decades ago it was very easy to distinguish between city and country: in most cases the edge was defined by defensive barriers. In recent times, the relationships...

International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS)

Frederic Andres, Chutiporn Anutariya, Teeradaj Racharak, Watanee Jearanaiwongkul. Est. 2010.

The International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS) presents high quality research papers on the design and implementation of information...