Analysing land-cover changes in relation to environmental variables in Hesse, Germany

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 473-489

  Hietel, Elke ^a   Waldhardt, Rainer ^a   Otte, Annette ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural land cover change; CCA; environmental conditions; German marginal rural landscape; K means partitioning; local scale; multi temporal land cover data

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; RURAL LANDSCAPE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; HESSE;

ANETHUM GRAVEOLENS;

EID: 4043133195     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:LAND.0000036138.82213.80     Document Type: Article

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