Integrating GIS into farmland preservation policy and decision making

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-48

  Tulloch, David L ^a   Myers, James R ^a   Hasse, John E ^b   Parks, Peter J ^a   Lathrop, Richard G ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DECISION MAKING; FARMS; LAND USE; SOILS;

FARMLAND PRESERVATION;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DECISION MAKING; GIS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANDSCAPE PROTECTION; PLANNING METHOD;

AGRICULTURE; AUTOMATION; DECISION MAKING; GIS; LAND USE; SOIL;

HUNTERDON COUNTY; NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037429648     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(02)00181-0     Document Type: Article

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