Circle pattern recognition Fairy circles aren’t the only natural phenomenon that can produce round, repeated bare spots in a landscape.

Fairy circles are round gaps in arid grassland that are distributed very uniformly over the landscape and only occur along the Namib Desert in southern Africa and in parts of Australia. Scientists ...

Landscape ecology is based on the premise that there are strong links between ecological pattern and ecological function and process. Ecological systems are spatially heterogeneous, exhibiting ...

Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (in Emmen, Netherlands) is the only earthwork produced by Smithson still in existence outside the United States. As an integral part of these works, Smithson made films that ...

The formation, thought to be as long as a football pitch, appeared in a field near Silbury Hill over two nights at the beginning of August. Some say the pattern is made by mysterious forces and ...

Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 93: Advances in Water Resources and Exploration (FALL 2019), pp. 404-409 (6 pages) In order to improve the spatial planning ability of island port ...