Remote sensing contributions to the scale issue

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 357-366

  Marceau, Danielle J ^a   Hay, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP); Remote Sensing; Scale; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000503696     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.1999.10874735     Document Type: Article

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