Using landscape analysis to assess and model tsunami damage in Aceh province, Sumatra

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 323-331

  Iverson, Louis R ^a   Prasad, Anantha M ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification and regression trees; Developed areas; Forests; Indonesia; Mangroves; Modeling damage; Prediction; Random forests; Tsunami damage; Tsunami warning

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; LANDSCAPE; MODELING; NATURAL DISASTER; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TSUNAMI;

ASIA; ATJEH; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 33847336029     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-006-9062-6     Document Type: Article

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