LaDy: Software for assessing local landscape diversity profiles of raster land cover maps using geographic windows

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 373-378

  Ricotta, C ^a   Corona, P ^b   Marchetti, M ^c   Chirici, G ^d   Innamorati, S ^e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e Accademia Italiana di Scienze Forestali   (Italy)

Author keywords

Convolution operations; Landscape diversity profile; R nyi's parametric entropy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY;

ECOLOGY;

GIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0037237888     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(02)00104-4     Document Type: Article

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