Issues in spatially explicit statistical land-use/cover change (LUCC) models: Examples from western Honduras and the Central Highlands of Vietnam

Land Use Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 521-530

  Munroe, Darla K ^a   Müller, Daniel ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Categorical data analysis; Geosimulation; Land use cover change; Sampling; Scale; Statistical modeling

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATISTICS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; EURASIA; HONDURAS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 33947506704     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2005.09.007     Document Type: Article

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