Landscape pattern in topographically complex landscapes: Issues and techniques for analysis

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 729-743

  Dorner, Brigitte ^a   Lertzman, Ken ^a   Fall, Joseph ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

GIS; Landscape management; Landscape metrics; Raster analysis; Spatial statistics; Topography

Indexed keywords

GIS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; RASTER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 0036971987     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022944019665     Document Type: Article

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