Modeling and measurement of structural changes at a landscape scale in dryland areas

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-13

  Ares, Jorge ^a   Bertiller, Mónica ^a   Bisigato, Alejandro ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dryland assessment; Dryland quality indicators; Semiarid grasslands; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTENNAS; FOURIER SERIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

DRYLAND; FOURIER DECOMPOSITION; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; MODELING AND MEASUREMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS; SEMI-ARID GRASSLANDS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION; DRYLAND FARMING; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GRAZING; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARGENTINA; CHUBUT; PATAGONIA;

EID: 0037216037     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022499815527     Document Type: Article

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