Assessing forest fragmentation and connectivity: A case study in the Carpathians

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6366, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ostapowicz, Katarzyna ^a,b   Estreguil, Christine ^a   Kozak, Jacek ^b   Vogt, Peter ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Carpathians; Connectivity; European forests; Fragmentation; Morphological processing; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SATELLITES;

CONNECTIVITY; MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING; MOUNTAIN AGRICULTURE;

REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURE; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

EID: 33751432347     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.689573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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