Multiresolution fragmentation profiles for assessing hierarchically structured landscape patterns

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 116, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 293-301

  Johnson, Glen D ^a   Myers, Wayne L ^a   Patil, Ganapati P ^a   Taillie, Charles ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical raster maps; Conditional entropy; Entropy decomposition; Fragmentation profiles; Landscape ecology; Multiresolution spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; LANDSCAPE; MAPPING; METHODOLOGY; RASTER;

EID: 0033559245     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(98)00202-6     Document Type: Article

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