Historical analysis of landscape change using remote sensing techniques: An explanatory tool for agricultural transformation in Greek rural areas

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 38-46

  Zomeni, Maria ^a   Tzanopoulos, Joseph ^a   Pantis, John D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Agricultural change; Landscape metrics; Pindos; Post productivist; Productivist

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; REMOTE SENSING;

ABANDONMENT; AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; LANDSCAPE METRICS; PINDOS; POST-PRODUCTIVISTS; PRODUCTIVISTS;

AGRICULTURE;

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL AREA; RURAL LANDSCAPE; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 41949116046     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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