Comparison of two distance methods for forest spatial pattern analysis (Case study: Zagros forests of Iran)

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 152-157

  Fard, Yousef Erfani ^a   Feghhi, Jahangir ^a   Zobeiri, Mahmoud ^a   Namiranian, Manouchehr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Distance method; Nearest neighbor index; Spatial pattern; T square; Zagros

Indexed keywords

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

DISTANCE METHOD; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; T-SQUARE; ZAGROS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 42049095920     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2008.152.157     Document Type: Article

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