Urban land classification and its uncertainties using principal component and cluster analyses: A case study for the UK West Midlands

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 311-321

  Owen, S M ^a   MacKenzie, A R ^a   Bunce, R G H ^b   Stewart, H E ^a   Donovan, R G ^a   Stark, G ^b   Hewitt, C N ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fuzzy analysis of uncertainty; Land classification; Stratified sampling and surveys; Urban land cover

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMBERS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FUZZY CONTROL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

FUZZY ANALYSIS; LAND CLASSIFICATION; STRATIFIED SAMPLING; STRATIFIED SURVEYS;

URBAN PLANNING;

AGGLOMERATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; METROPOLITAN AREA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; MIDLANDS [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33750631115     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2005.11.002     Document Type: Article

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