Selection of scale for Everglades landscape models

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-18

  Obeysekera, Jayantha ^a   Rutchey, Ken ^a  

^a SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SCALE SELECTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION MAP;

USA, FLORIDA, EVERGLADES;

EID: 0030861161     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02698203     Document Type: Article

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