Mediterranean urban-forest interface classification (MUFIC): A quantitative method combining SPOT5 imagery and landscape ecology indices

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 183-190

  Dumas, Estelle ^a   Jappiot, Marielle ^b   Tatoni, Thierry ^a  

^a AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Exurban areas; Geographic information system (SIG); Urban forest; Urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE;

EXURBAN AREAS; LANDSCAPE PATTERN METRICS; URBAN FOREST; URBAN SPRAWL;

ECOLOGY;

CLASSIFICATION; GIS; IMAGERY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPOT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN FORESTRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 39149114730     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.12.002     Document Type: Review

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