A GRID-BASED SAMPLE DESIGN FRAMEWORK FOR HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS [VERSION 1; PEER REVIEW: 2 APPROVED, 1 APPROVED WITH RESERVATIONS]

A grid-based sample design framework for household surveys [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Traditional sample designs for household surveys are contingent upon the availability of a representative primary sampling frame.This is defined using enumeration units and population counts retrieved from decennial national censuses that can become rapidly inaccurate in highly dynamic demographic settings.To tackle the need for representative samp

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Avoiding Invalid Transitions in Land Cover Trajectory Classification With a Compound Maximum a Posteriori Approach

Classifying remote sensing time-series in land cover trajectories can provide essential information about ecosystems functioning and about the impacts of natural phenomena or human activities over the environment.The existing approaches commonly used for this task can present serious drawbacks, such as the possibility to derive tuffer bags invalid

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Sustainability Assessment of Alternative Strip Clear Cutting Operations for Wood Chip Production in Renaturalization Management of Pine Stands

In Mediterranean regions, afforested areas were planted to ensure the permanence of land cover, and to protect against erosion and to initiate the vegetation processes.For those purposes, pine species were mainly used; however, many of these stands, without silvicultural treatments for over fifty-sixty years, were in a poor state from physical and

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