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Developing an Economic Estimation System for Vertical Farms (2019)
Book Chapter
Shao, Y., Heath, T., & Zhu, Y. (2019). Developing an Economic Estimation System for Vertical Farms. In I. R. Management Association (Ed.), Urban Agriculture and Food Systems: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (484-510). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8063-8.ch025

The concept of vertical farming is nearly twenty years old, however, there are only a few experimental prototypes despite its many advantages compared to conventional agriculture. Significantly, financial uncertainty has been identified as the larges... Read More about Developing an Economic Estimation System for Vertical Farms.

Data and GPS systems: comparing navigation and landmark knowledge between GPS users and non-GPS users (2019)
Book Chapter
Ahmadpoor, N., & Heath, T. (2019). Data and GPS systems: comparing navigation and landmark knowledge between GPS users and non-GPS users. In A. Karandinou (Ed.), Data architecture and the experience of place: new approaches to data and senses. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The experiments implemented in this research demonstrate that people who navigate an urban environment using GPS have poorer landmark knowledge than those who do not use GPS. Furthermore, discriminant analysis reveals certain attributes of urban land... Read More about Data and GPS systems: comparing navigation and landmark knowledge between GPS users and non-GPS users.