A note on contagion indices for landscape analysis

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 197-202

  Riitters, Kurt H ^a   O'Neill, Robert V ^a   Wickham, James D ^a  

^a TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computation; Image texture; Information index; Spatial pattern; Statistics

Indexed keywords

CONTAGION INDICES; LANDSCAPE CONTAGION INDEX; PIXEL; RASTER MAP;

EID: 0030427472     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02071810     Document Type: Article

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