Forest fragmentation estimated from remotely sensed data: Is comparison across scales possible?

Forest Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-63

  García Gigorro, Soledad ^b   Saura, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Forest patterns; Fragmentation indices; Satellite images; Scaling; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS;

CELL-BASED FRAGMENTATION; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; REMOTE SENSORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

FORESTRY;

DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; FORESTS; FRAGMENTATION; MAPPING; RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS;

EID: 16444385275     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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