Trajectories of land-use and land-cover in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon: Temporal composition, spatial configuration, and probability of change

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 737-751

  Mena, Carlos F ^a,b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; INTENSIVE STUDY AREAS; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; PRIMARY FOREST; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION; TEMPORAL COMPOSITION;

TRAJECTORIES;

ACCESSIBILITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; GIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PASTURE; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES; TRAJECTORY;

AMAZON BASIN; ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 44849129144     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.74.6.737     Document Type: Article

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