Quantifying landscape structure with vegetation inventory maps and remote sensing

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 866-875

  Franklin, S E ^a   Hansen, M J ^a   Stenhouse, G B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Foothills Model Forest   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; GIS vegetation inventory maps; Landscape metrics; Satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES;

VEGETATION;

GIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION MAPPING;

MAPS; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING;

ALBERTA; CANADA; YELLOWHEAD ECOSYSTEM;

CONIFEROPHYTA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 0036873244     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc78866-6     Document Type: Article

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