Quantifying the agricultural landscape and assessing spatio-temporal patterns of precipitation and groundwater use

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-54

  Zhang, Minghua ^a,b   Geng, Shu ^a   Ustin, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Western Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Crops; Geographic Information System; Groundwater; Quantitative indices; Soils; Spatial patterns; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; GROUNDWATER; LAND USE; METHODOLOGY; PLANNING METHOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

CALIFORNIA; TULARE COUNTY; USA;

EID: 0031853307     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007924914662     Document Type: Article

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