A mathematical comment on the formulae for the aggregation index and the shape index

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-90

  Bogaert, Jan ^a   Myneni, Ranga B ^a   Knyazikhin, Yuri ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation index; Index redundancy; Landscape metric; Perimeter; Pixel edge; Pixel geometry; Shape index; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY;

EID: 0036253454     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015204923187     Document Type: Article

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8. Effective exercises in teaching landscape ecology