Ecological risk assessment of regions along the roadside of the Qinghai-Tibet highway and railway based on an artificial neural network

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 900-913

  Hui, Chen ^a,b   Jinsong, Liu ^b   Yu, Cao ^a,c   Shuangcheng, Li ^d   Hua, Ouyang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Artificial factors; Artificial neural network; Ecological risk assessment; MLP (Multilayer perceptron) model; Natural factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547171050     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030601105092     Document Type: Article

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