A Cellular Automata Model for Monitoring and Simulating Urban Land Use/Cover Changes Toward Sustainability

Khatibi, Ali; Pourebrahim, Sharareh; Danehkar, Afshin

doi:10.3846/16486897.2017.1284666

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“…On the other hand, regarding the increasing population of the world, the rate of energy consumption increased and it causes further use of fossil fuels . Concerning these realities, employing more sustainable energy sources such as renewable energy can be considered as an appropriate solution for overcoming these problems and achieving sustainable development . Renewable energy sources are clean, free, and have many environmental and economic advantages than other conventional energy sources .…”

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Deployment of a stand‐alone hybrid renewable energy system in coastal areas as a reliable energy source

Kasaeian

Razmjoo

Shirmohammadi

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Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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Solar and wind can be considered as sustainable environmentally friendly and omnipresent renewable energy sources for generating a part of required electrical energy for inhabitants of the remote areas in different countries. Accordingly, this study investigates the techno-economic evaluation for two-hybrid renewable energy systems for Bandar Dayyer. The findings of this study shows that using the HOMER software, the total amount of electricity production by these systems are equal to 470,176 kW, of which 22,409 kW is provided by PV-generic system and 447,767 kW is supplied by PV-diesel-generic system. It should be mentioned that this area has an appropriate potential of wind speed and solar radiation; therefore, the area can be suitable for investing on a hybrid renewable energy site. K E Y W O R D SHOMER software, renewable energy system, solar energy, wind energy 1 | INTRODUCTION Adequate provision of energy has always been a crucial issue and is deemed as one of the best measures for estimating the economic growth and development of a country. In recent decades, increasing CO 2 emission into the atmosphere is considered as one of the main reasons for global warming with adverse environmental effects such as sea level rise, floods, droughts, and so forth. Reduction of fossil fuels consumption by energy efficiency, carbon capture, and storage, conversion of CO 2 to different products, application of renewable

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Deployment of a stand‐alone hybrid renewable energy system in coastal areas as a reliable energy source

Kasaeian

Razmjoo

Shirmohammadi

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Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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“…In addition, other publications have investigated hydrological modeling with respect to homogeneous of landform types, for example, surface water flow simulation, complex river system modeling, and flash flood forecasting [ 11 , 12 , 13 ]. Solutions for problems related to land use, land erosion, and landslide have been proposed by [ 10 , 14 , 15 ]. Another related research topic is environmental pollution such as oil spill, air pollution, and so on [ 16 , 17 ].…”

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Cellular Simulation for Distributed Sensing over Complex Terrains

Truong

Pottier

Huynh

2018

Sensors

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Long-range radio transmissions open new sensor application fields, in particular for environment monitoring. For example, the LoRa radio protocol enables connecting remote sensors at a distance as long as ten kilometers in a line-of-sight. However, the large area covered also brings several difficulties, such as the placement of sensing devices in regards to topology in geography, or the variability of communication latency. Sensing the environment also carries constraints related to the interest of sensing points in relation to a physical phenomenon. Thus, criteria for designs are evolving a lot from the existing methods, especially in complex terrains. This article describes simulation techniques based on geography analysis to compute long-range radio coverages and radio characteristics in these situations. As radio propagation is just a particular case of physical phenomena, it is shown how a unified approach also allows for characterizing the behavior of potential physical risks. The case of heavy rainfall and flooding is investigated. Geography analysis is achieved using segmentation tools to produce cellular systems which are in turn translated into code for high-performance computations. The paper provides results from practical complex terrain experiments using LoRa, which confirm the accuracy of the simulation, and scheduling characteristics for sample networks. Performance tables are produced for these simulations on current Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).

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“…On the other hand, regarding the increasing population of the world, the rate of energy consumption increased and it causes further use of fossil fuels [75]. Concerning these realities, employing more sustainable energy sources such as renewable energy can be considered as an appropriate solution for overcoming these problems and achieving sustainable development [20,27,[76][77][78][79]. Renewable energy sources are clean, free, and have many environmental and economic advantages than other conventional energy sources [80][81][82][83][84][85][86].Without doubt among clean energies, solar and wind energy are the best and well-known sources of energy and according to the released statistics has a growing influential impact on energy services [87].…”

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Measuring energy sustainability by using energy sustainability indicators

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The main aim of this thesis is investigating energy sustainability in developing countries using useful indicators. As it is known, serious issues such as global warming and inefficient consumption of energy will lead to severe problems in the future in the world and in particular in developing countries. Those countries which have a proper policy and practical actions by policymakers and energy experts can prevent these problems confidently. For these reasons, the present thesis has focused on developing indicators that can measure the grade of energy sustainability in order to achieve energy sustainability the countries analyzed. In this sense, the thesis starts to investigate the Sustainable Energy Development Index (SEDI) method and improves this method by finding and evaluating the useful indicators to improve and complete the SEDI methodology. In this regard, a numerical analysis of 12 countries has been realized. Following the methodology, new indicators associated with energy are proposed in line with the Habitat III and the SDGs from the UN. Additionally, appropriate strategies to combine the different UN goals are analyzed, and indicators are chosen to provide the best performance of the index. For this research, it is needed to analyze many related data and find novel indicators based on these data that can be obtained and applied by policymakers and energy experts for application in developing countries due to high percentage of energy consumption sector in these communities. Therefore, the main findings of this thesis are proposed indicators for improving the quality life of the inhabitants of different areas in the world with respect with the different aspects of the energy such as access energy, affordable energy and saving energy. For achieving to these goals, is the need to a correct policy, the evaluation of energy sustainability based on energy systems of a country, the close collaboration of policymakers with energy experts, using useful indicators, the balance of the energy supply, equity in access to energy and environmental sustainability of the urban and remote areas. These actions will lead to achieving energy sustainability confidently. El objetivo principal de esta tesis es investigar la sostenibilidad energética en los países en desarrollo utilizando indicadores efectivos. Como es sabido, problemas como el calentamiento global y el consumo ineficiente de energía conducirán a serios problemas en el futuro del mundo y en particular en los países en desarrollo. Aquellos países que cuentan con políticas adecuadas y acciones efectivas por parte de los legisladores y expertos en energía pueden prevenir estos problemas con confianza. Por estas razones, la presente tesis se ha centrado en desarrollar indicadores que puedan medir el grado de sostenibilidad energética para lograr la sostenibilidad energética que los países analizaron. En este sentido, la tesis comienza a investigar el método del Índice de Desarrollo de Energía Sostenible (SEDI) y mejora este método al encontrar y evaluar los indicadores efectivos para mejorar y completar la metodología SEDI. En este sentido, se realizó un análisis numérico de 12 países. Siguiendo la metodología, se proponen nuevos indicadores asociados con la energía en línea con el Hábitat III y los ODS de la ONU. Además, se analizan las estrategias apropiadas para combinar los diferentes objetivos de las Naciones Unidas y se eligen los indicadores para proporcionar el mejor rendimiento del índice. Para esta investigación, es necesario analizar muchos datos relacionados y encontrar nuevos indicadores basados en estos datos que puedan ser obtenidos y aplicados por los formuladores de políticas y expertos en energía para su aplicación en los países en desarrollo debido al alto porcentaje del sector de consumo de energía en estas comunidades. Por lo tanto, los principales hallazgos de esta tesis son indicadores propuestos para mejorar la calidad de vida de los habitantes de diferentes áreas del mundo con respecto a los diferentes aspectos de la energía, como el acceso a la energía, la energía asequible y el ahorro de energía. Para alcanzar estos objetivos, se necesita corregir las políticas, la evaluación de la sostenibilidad energética basada en los sistemas energéticos de un país, la estrecha colaboración de los encargados de formular políticas con los expertos en energía, utilizando indicadores efectivos, el equilibrio del suministro de energía, la equidad en el acceso a sostenibilidad energética y ambiental de las zonas urbanas y remotas. Estas acciones conducirán a lograr la sostenibilidad energética con confianza.

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A Cellular Automata Model for Monitoring and Simulating Urban Land Use/Cover Changes Toward Sustainability

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Deployment of a stand‐alone hybrid renewable energy system in coastal areas as a reliable energy source

Deployment of a stand‐alone hybrid renewable energy system in coastal areas as a reliable energy source

Cellular Simulation for Distributed Sensing over Complex Terrains

Measuring energy sustainability by using energy sustainability indicators

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