Characterizing the changes in landscape structure in the Lake Kasumigaura Basin, Japan using a high-quality GIS dataset

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 241-250

  Matsushita, Bunkei ^a   Xu, Ming ^b   Fukushima, Takehiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Land use cover change; Landscape metrics

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE/COVER CHANGE; LANDSCAPE METRICS;

URBAN PLANNING;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DATA SET; FRAGMENTATION; GIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PATCH DYNAMICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; IBARAKI; JAPAN; KANTO; LAKE KASUMIGAURA;

EID: 33750199108     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2005.08.003     Document Type: Article

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